Trucking

Lows water levels are seasonal, but this year has been record, impeding low-cost barges and favoring high-cost trucking.

FedEx customers shipping heavy parcels will take it on the chin next year.

TFI International the Montreal, Canada-based transport and logistics company, has made two significant personnel announcements this week, including a new executive vp of U.S. Truckload.

Oil prices fall on the back of a possible supply glut; highly populated cities are fighting back to regulate traffic during peak hours; U.S. companies are finding it hard to continue working in Iran after the now-in-effect trade sanctions.

ZED Connect has announced that it is discontinuing its ZED-ELD product and offering current customers an opportunity to transition to the EZ-ELD from Stoneridge.

It is now clarified that your truck can be laden while driving for personal conveyance.

Rail and truck demand a secondary casualty in trade dispute.

International’s new CV Series of Class 4-5 trucks is designed to help smaller companies scale and give larger fleets the opportunity to expand their businesses with one truck maker.

Also in the pickup: better tools for sleep apnea instruments in sleeper berths; does Buffet care about BNSF’ OR?

The list continues: what will be shown at Demo Day in Dallas this year?

Trump sees path forward with Democrats on infrastructure.

The FreightWaves Research Institute will announce the winners of the Freight.Tech 25 next week at the MarketWaves18 conference at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

Brakes were also the biggest cited factor in Roadcheck Week earlier in the year.

There’s been a flight to quality that has led some shippers and carriers out of the spot market, Fuller said.

While transportation was not a front-of-the-ticket issue for politicians in the midterm elections, there were some significant developments when it came to funding projects across the country.

Companies need to keep their drivers safe; they also need to retain them and pay them. This white paper discusses how both can be done.

The company is not turning its back on acquisitions forever but thinks it needs to digest the heavy slate of companies it has bought since the middle of 2018.

Expeditors navigates around pricing pressure to post solid Q3 results.

Retention, training, and the capacity crunch are undeniably hot button issues in 2018. In response, SmartDrive and FreightWaves collaborated to distribute a survey to uncover trends in driver incentive programs. The white paper—based on the findings of the survey, which was fielded in Q3 2018—reveals the steps that trucking companies are taking in order to hire and retain qualified drivers and create safer, more profitable organizations.