Choptank Transport is on a mission to turn its remaining manual processes into more efficient digital strategies. The quick-growing logistics service provider is hopeful that the transformation will bring revenue growth and help scale the business.
Association’s new ad campaign highlights dangers to consumers of not getting a highway bill funded this year.
This morning Truckstop.com announced that ICONIQ Capital, a leading Silicon Valley growth equity firm, has made a majority investment in the online freight matching and load board solution.
U.S. and European freight railroads are very different in many respects. Market analyst Jim Blaze gives insights about how the two systems differ.
In a striking private equity deal, Providence Equity Partners has agreed to buy GlobalTranz (GTZ), a top 10 third-party logistics provider (3PL), back from The Jordan Company after selling GlobalTranz to Jordan for approximately $400 million in June.
XPO adds IT functionality to core business.
March orders for new trucks in the heaviest Class 8 weight segment plummeted 66 percent compared with the same month in 2018.
Fast Radius, a leading manufacturing technology company, has announced its Series B financing round of $48 million led by UPS, with strong insider participation from Drive Capital.
Cavalry Logistics is expanding rapidly this year by tripling its locations, hiring aggressively and integrating with Universal Logistics Holding Inc.’s forwarding division.
Air cargo volume is down year-to-date. Learn what air cargo companies are doing – and not doing – to generate greater volume and revenue.
PHOTO CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK Guest post by FreightWaves’ John Gallagher A formal rulemaking likely will not be required to make permanent a federal demonstration project that seeks to assign proper blame for trucking accidents. The 24-month “Crash Preventability Demonstration Program” that was launched by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) in August 2017 will end […]
Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has handed out a smack-down to the three main longshoremen companies in Australia, which were using their oligopoly market power to impose unfair terms on trucking companies. The stevedoring companies involved are DP World Australia, Hutchison Ports Australia and Victoria International Container Terminal.
Two-person teams to be briefed, then local leaders and rank-and-file.
FedEx Freight, J.B. Hunt, Schneider National among companies with the most non-preventable accidents identified so far by FMCSA.
Roadrunner Freight has introduced a smartphone app that leverages technology to increase transparency and reduce downtimes for independent contractors.
DHL unit to enter a big auto supply chain business at Charleston.
Navistar recently recalled more than 24,000 International model heavy-duty trucks due to a possible defect that could cause the exhaust tail pipe to fall off the vehicles while they are moving.
Truck drivers with minor damage to their vehicle now have a speedier way to handle that claim if they are a Progressive Insurance commercial customer with a new photo inspection tool.
Auto sales are declining, but the National Automobile Dealers Association still expects strong sales for 2019, plus the one area where Amazon is losing and opposition to Canada’s carbon tax grows.
Canadian trucking company Bison Transport acquired H.O. Wolding Inc., or HOW, a 320-truck dry van fleet headquartered in Amherst, Wisconsin, on April 1.
