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Knight-Swift aims for double-digit rate hike in tight market
Knight-Swift Transportation upped its rate expectations for bid season.
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Teamsters fighting deal between Amazon and NLRB on joint employer status
Sustainability
Shell Starship 3.0 showcased at US Eco-Marathon
Visibility Tech
Gnosis Freight adds Walmart veteran Gary Adams to its board
Company Earnings
Triumph Financial sets new metrics, has strong quarter in factoring
The Playbook
The Playbook
You Delivered That Load Three Weeks Ago. Here Is Why You Still Do Not Have the Money — and What to Do About It.
Here is a number that does not get talked about enough: we have seen a some small carriers that have somewhere between $40,000 and $100,000 in completed work sitting as unpaid invoices at any given time. That money has been earned. The load moved. The delivery was made. The BOL is signed. The money simply […]
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Gord Magill wrote the book trucking needed
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SONAR Launches Sitreps:
Expert-Authored Situation Reports Integrated Directly Into the Freight Intelligence Platform SONAR Research team delivers deep market analysis on macro forces reshaping freight and supply chain — with live data built in SONAR, the leading real-time freight market intelligence platform, today announced the launch of SONAR Sitreps — a new research product that delivers deep, expert-authored […]
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Truckload volatility reveals a fundamentally different market than previous years
Carriers are rejecting more than 13% of tendered truckload shipments.
Winter Storm Fern tightens U.S. trucking capacity, prolonging holiday season rate surge
Nationwide tender rejections are at 11.5%.
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Spot to contract rate spread contraction tests 3PLs
Freight brokerages serve as the quintessential middlemen of the freight market, managing shipper transportation networks during stable periods while scrambling to fill capacity gaps when conditions tighten. It is a continuous balancing act — near-term underperformance can actually signal longer-term success, and vice versa.
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Produce season’s prodigal return
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Does the price of diesel drive truckload rates?
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Truckload’s tightness persists into spring
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Midwest and West Coast rejection rates showing unprecedented disparity
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Logistics/Supply Chains
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Parcel Freight
UPS-owned Happy Returns expands network to 10,000 drop-off locations
Happy Returns, a unit of UPS, is adding 1,700 no-label, no-box returns locations to its network and looking to expand returns service for products that can’t be consolidated.
American Shipper
Trans-Pacific container rates rise, but there’s a catch
American Shipper
US has lost its maritime focus, says FMC’s DiBella
American Shipper
FMC Chief: Ocean carriers knew war could increase fuel prices
American Shipper
Parcel Freight
Australia Post offers eBay sellers in-store printing of shipping labels
Australia Post aims to reduce shipping friction for eBay merchants by allowing free label printing in post offices.
Modern Shipper
Fulfillment
Home Depot acquires warehouse automation firm to speed fulfillment
Home Depot has bought a warehouse automation firm to help speed item picking.
Last-Mile Delivery
Uber Eats launches retail returns feature
American Shipper
Commentary: FedEx and UPS need to move up the e-commerce food chain
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