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Pilot Travel Centers got a two-notch upward bump in its debt rating from  Moody’s.

Internal email reveals $105 million in maintenance cutbacks at BNSF that could lead to service disruptions.

When Berkshire Hathaway bought the last 20% of Pilot Travel Centers, the deal valued the chain at significantly less than just a year earlier.

The Haslam family has exercised its option to have Berkshire Hathaway buy the final 20% of Pilot Travel Centers it did not already own.

Berkshire Hathaway and the former owners of Pilot Travel Centers have settled their legal differences on the day trial was set to begin.

The upcoming trial between the Haslam family and Berkshire Hathaway will see some limits on discussing a contentious issue.

A Berkshire lawsuit against Pilot’s founding family over payments made to company executives won’t be heard alongside another case.

The Pilot vs. Berkshire lawsuit in Delaware has gotten personal, with the recent Pilot chairman accused of secret payments to benefit a sales price.

Uber Freight has more than 100 shipper companies lined up to run autonomous freight, but the capacity just doesn’t exist yet.

The family who founded Pilot Travel Centers and sold 80% of it to Berkshire Hathaway has filed suit over valuing the final 20%.

Pilot Travel Centers has been forced to shut 19 of its outlets due to the liquidation of those sites’ operator, Mountain Express.

The quarterly earnings report from Berkshire Hathaway was the first with a full set of financial numbers from Pilot.

The long-planned acquisition of a bigger stake in Pilot by Berkshire Hathaway has been completed, and new data is expected to emerge as a result.

The carpeting and flooring giant plans to manufacture more domestically iin the wake of the pandemic.

COVID is believed to have accelerated the exodus of people from cities, but new data suggests the long-term impact on freight flows is more nuanced.

Genuflecting toward Wall Street has symbolically become part of the North American Class 1 rail company culture.

We discuss Ted Weschler, Berkshire money manager and his move to purchase $45mm of Dillard’s stock. Then, we break down some of the most notable upcoming futuristic SPACs.

Schneider National’s fourth quarter suffered from a “muted peak season” and softer rates. However, the carrier’s 2020 outlook calls for improving fundamentals.

Seeing expansion of the truck stop business as finite, Pilot Flying J is rapidly expanding its energy business. Reflecting that is a name change to the Pilot Company, an homage to the single gas station founder Jim Haslam purchased in 1958.

The owner of BNSF and the investor behind Uber have more in common than it seems.

Second quarter revenue for BNSF rose 0.3 percent despite lower volumes for agricultural products, consumer products and industrial products.

Berkshire Hathway (NYSE: BRK) chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said he would be willing to consider some form of precision scheduled railroading (PSR) for western U.S. railroad BNSF, although he […]

A decrease in coal volumes did not slow a revenue rise at BNSF Railway Company, which posted a 16% increase in operating revenues in the third quarter compared to Q3 2017.

XPO Logistics was named to the Fortune Future 50 list of U.S. public companies while KeepTruckin and Transfix were both honored by Forbes as two companies likely to achieve unicorn status.

Long-serving railroad man led BNSF through acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway.

Last week, analysts from Morgan Stanley—Rajeev Lalwani and Kai Pan—released a note listing the compelling reasons Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) should consider buying Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV).

The class 1 railroad owned by Berkshire Hathaway had the worst OR of any of the class 1 railroads for the second quarter.

BNSF hauls more coal than any other railroad, but the future of American coal production and consumption is an open question. Is BNSF heavily exposed to downside risk or will it be the last coal carrier standing?

Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a 38.% stake in Pilot Flying J with the right to obtain an additional 41.4% stake in 2023, the company announced.