Oregon

The Port of Portland has re-opened Terminal 6 under private management in a move to give new life to the troubled facility.

During the holiday season, the usually low-volume Pacific Northwest changes from one of the easiest regions to source truckload capacity to the most difficult.

New electric truck charging stations will help support California’s controversial zero-emission truck fleet programs.

Marko Transport is being fined $44,000 by the state of Oregon for failing to help clean up about 100 gallons of diesel fuel spilled on a highway last year.

Both Democrats and Republicans representing the Pacific Northwest say the creation of a ship-to-rail container port at the existing Port of Coos Bay could boost West Coast port capacity by as much as 10%.

All Western states, with Colorado topping the list

The past week in social media images features a sticky Northwest truck spill, a raging California wildfire and more.

More than 100 miles of Interstate 84 in Oregon are off-limits to commercial vehicles after a truck crash.

Both Union Pacific and BNSF have taken to rerouting trains because large wildfires have temporarily closed portions of their networks in Northern California.

Truckers will run into areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

The past week in images features huge Western wildfires, devastating floods in Colorado, a successful emergency airplane landing and more.

Truckers will keep hitting areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

Oregon’s Bootleg wildfire, the largest in the country, is almost as big as Oklahoma City, the eighth-largest U.S. city by area (forecast video included).

Smoke from Oregon’s Bootleg fire, and dozens of others in the West, could limit truckers’ visibility and produce poor air quality (forecast video included).

Officials say the Bootleg fire, the largest wildfire in the U.S. at more than 200,000 acres, may not be fully contained until the fall (forecast video included).

The wildfires in Washington state aren’t a major threat to BNSF’s Washington operations, but the railroad deployed trains to help area first responders. Union Pacific grappled with wildfires near a Northern California subdivision last week.

Another round of heavy snowfall and gusty winds will return to the Northwest this afternoon after a brief break since last night. Freight movement delays will continue in the coming days. Some high elevations of the Olympics in Washington, as well as the Cascades in Washington, Oregon and northern California will pick up an additional […]

Last push for holiday deliveries may be delayed in the northwestern U.S.

Up to three feet of mountain snowfall in Cascades next two to three days. Ice, flooding rains below.

Christmas, other year-end holiday packages may arrive late as high-impact storm develops.