Cold Chain Summit: Wabash National’s composite tech chilling the trailer business
abash National is expanding molded structural composite use beyond trailer walls and helping win sustainability points for customers.
abash National is expanding molded structural composite use beyond trailer walls and helping win sustainability points for customers.
Perishable Shipping Solutions CEO Mark Nelson said online demand for specialty perishables never leveled off from the start of the pandemic, and the growth has barely scratched the surface.
FreightWaves’ journalist Matt Blois chats with World Courier’s Alex Guite about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the cold chain and how pharma and logistics companies adapted to distribute vaccines.
Other plans called for a more radical rebuild but ran into opposition.
“Over more than two years of working with Parcel Perform, their solution has become our global track-and-trace solution,” said Davide Costella, global delivery services manager at Nespresso.
Order books are open, but demand planning for 2022 and 2023 began months ago and bookings are filling fast.
If certiorari is denied, the injunction blocking AB5 from being implemented in the state will disappear immediately.
The organization will provide an update on its search at its annual meeting in Las Vegas next month.
The U.S. Senate votes to advance a major infrastructure package that includes new regulations for trucks.
August is likely to see a new monthly record for retail container imports, with 2021 doing the same. However, ongoing supply chain dislocation clouds how quickly consumers will be able to get their hands on the goods.
As freight markets enter the second year of peaklike conditions, FreightWaves caught up with Amit Mehrotra, Deutsche Bank’s transportation analyst, to talk about how this freight cycle will play out.
Growing concerns about oil demand declining as a result of the Delta variant are pushing prices lower.
The decision is also seen as potentially being a legal precedent on the issue of non-compete contracts.
The need for truck capacity remains at historic highs, and more fleets have responded by increasing driver pay for the second time this year.
Workhouse Group is reviewing its electric delivery van designs to add cargo capacity and sold most of its stake in troubled Lordstown Motors.
Manufacturing is increasing in Mexico as nearshoring has caught the attention of many U.S. companies.
Nikola founder makes biggest divestiture to date, selling 7 million shares over three days and transferring 600,000 shares to his spouse.
A strong consolidation program extends the reach of logistics savings beyond just trailer loads and multi-stop loads by converting LTL suppliers to customer pickup.
The always-contentious UPS-Teamsters negotiations could hit new levels of enmity should Sean O’Brien be elected Teamsters president.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Canada again beats Mexico to remain the top U.S. trade partner; Merqueo raises $50 million to expand across Latin America; Aries Worldwide Logistics opens Laredo office; and CBP in Texas intercept a rare pest in a produce shipment.