Penske Automotive Group has acquired London, Ontario-based Team Truck Centres, a retailer of medium- and heavy-duty Freightliner and Western Star commercial trucks.

A Houston-based company will retain a $17.9 billion contract to move military families after the Government Accountability Office rejected protests lodged last year by two companies seeking to block the agreement.

FedEx Corp. has suspended all services in Russia and Belarus as fighting intensifies following the invasion of Ukraine.

Freight brokerage firms are anticipating that contract rates will keep rising this year, with a slowdown not expected until year’s end.

Preliminary North American Class 8 orders in February came in at 21,000, or essentially even with January’s volume, but were less than half of what fleets ordered a year earlier, ACT Research reported, citing truck makers’ initial data.

Two Mobile, Ala., transportation agencies are getting a combined $100 million in federal grant money to support various projects, including the construction of a new international airport terminal at the Brookley Aeroplex.

President Joe Biden and some members of Congress are calling for ocean carriers to lose their limited antitrust immunity under legislation that has been introduced in the House of Representatives.

Amazon .com Inc. is closing all of its physical bookstores, “Amazon 4-Star” locations and mall pop-up kiosks as the world’s largest online retailer narrows its brick-and-mortar push to the grocery sector.

Carriers have struggled to fully capitalize on high demand because of factors suppressing volumes, American Trucking Associations Chief Economist Bob Costello said March 1.

Longtime food distribution and grocery executive Craig Turner on March 1 was named president of FlexCold, a third-party food logistics and cold storage operator based in Charleston, S.C.