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BNSF CEO assails new rail merger filing, says transcon will raise rates, prices
The CEO of BNSF says Union Pacific’s latest regulatory filing does nothing to change the anti-competitive aspects of the $85 billion rail merger.
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First look: Old Dominion almost a sub-70 OR
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Grip taps industry veteran to lead cold chain fulfillment
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Werner CEO Leathers: just the 3rd inning in driver attrition
Company Earnings
First look: Werner boasts of better revenue per truck
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CMA CGM in new terminal venture with private equity firm
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Georgia Is Building 41 Miles of Toll-Free, Truck-Only Lanes on I-75. GDOT Thinks Nearly Every Truck Will Use Them.
Georgia is moving ahead with an idea that most of the country has only talked about: a stretch of interstate where the trucks get their own road. The Georgia Department of Transportation has released a construction timeline for its I-75 Commercial Vehicle Lanes project, and the plan is concrete. Design work will be finalized and […]
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BasicBlock acquires TrueNorth, expands beyond finance
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SONAR Launches Accepted Truckload Volume Index to Close the Gap Between Tendered and Moving Freight
Tender acceptance rates have long signaled stress in the truckload market — but until now, users had no direct index tracking the volume of freight that actually cleared that process and moved. SONAR’s new Accepted SONAR Truckload Volume Index (ASTVI) fills that gap. The dataset family isolates accepted truckload demand by stripping out rejection activity, […]
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SONAR Upgrades Batch Rate Intelligence Into a Full RFP Pricing Engine
SONAR this week released a significant upgrade to Batch Rate Intelligence, expanding the feature from a bulk lane analysis tool into what the company describes as a complete RFP pricing workflow.
USDOT signs on as a customer of SONAR’s high frequency freight market data
The US Department of Transportation has signed a deal to receive high-frequency freight market data from SONAR.
Calling devs: SONAR launches Driver App Shortage Hackathon
FreightWaves SONAR will launch its first virtual Driver App Shortage Hackathon on June 15-22 to address the lack of software built primarily for truck drivers.
Chart of the Week
Chart of the Week
Why do tender lead times keep climbing
A quiet indicator of supply chain strategy shifts, the tender lead time is telling us many things about how shippers are feeling about transportation markets.
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Intermodal’s historic growth
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How much is trade policy influencing imports?
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How long will this truckload market cycle last?
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LTL’s paper gains
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Global Supply Chain
New U.S. tariffs target imports from China, Mexico, Canada and 57 other economies
Healthcare Logistics
Trump’s tariff on drugs targets one of the world’s most globalized supply chains
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American Shipper
UPS shift away from Amazon shows bigger payoff
UPS said earnings improved in the second quarter as it fully ended handling low-margin Amazon shipments and continued streamlining its domestic network as it concentrates on high-quality revenue.
American Shipper
War sends Asia-US ocean rates soaring 234% since February
Railroad
Conrail CEO Gorton retiring
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American Shipper
New Australia airport has no curfew for cargo campus
A second international airport has opened in Sydney, Australia, highlighted by a new cargo zone that operates 24/7, giving businesses more shipping capacity and flexibility. Australia Post and Qantas have set up an air parcel terminal to expedite e-commerce traffic.
American Shipper
DHL eCommerce to acquire Baltic parcel carrier Venipak
American Shipper
DSV loves RFD: Logistics provider and airport hook up over air cargo
American Shipper
New test program puts nuclear container ships on the horizon
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Last-mile delivery
Carrier diversification unravels the last-mile delivery duopoly
Consumers now expect free delivery in 2.6 days, down from 3.4. Meeting that promise pushed more than half of retailers past FedEx, UPS and the Postal Service.
American Shipper
DHL eCommerce to acquire Baltic parcel carrier Venipak
Last-Mile Delivery
Weak housing market hurts big and bulky last-mile delivery
E-commerce & Fulfillment
Maersk to run $100M Boston fulfillment center for large retailer
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