Last-Mile Delivery

Can regional carriers and last-mile delivery companies build out national delivery networks?

Forward Air announced Friday that VP and Controller Rebecca Garbrick has been named the company’s new CFO, a role that had been vacant for three months.

The union’s declaration establishes the `Amazon Project,’ with the long-term goal of creating a division to organize company workers.

The company will add Missouri, Illinois and Kansas and deepen coverage in Louisiana and Arkansas, effective in early September.

The company’s investor day focuses on modest projections for domestic package-delivery margins through 2023.

Love it or hate it, the regional parcel carrier looks to clean up as e-commerce drives up demand for parcel-delivery services.

Asset-light trucking and logistics provider Forward Air’s new pay plan incentivizes operators to haul into the country’s more challenging markets.

A white paper by TIA and CLDA stresses the need to differentiate from Amazon to succeed in final-mile delivery.

FedEx is raising the fees on U.S. residential deliveries, its Ground Economy service and on packages requiring “additional handling.”

The electric vehicle pilot is part of Walmart’s last-mile delivery initiatives.

People are eager for face-to-face gatherings. But health and safety issues will still call the shots.

The company’s pickup and delivery revenue jumps; about 95% of sales were fulfilled from stores

The first-ever deal with Apple is part of $4 billion in logistics contracts for XPO since the year began.

Company boosts its full-year EBITDA range, and discloses 11-year, $1.8 billion logistics contract with unidentified customer.

“It’s about speed, convenience and also being greener,” says Chris Jarvis, chief logistics officer at GoFor.

Drone delivery planning in urban environments requires many considerations, including emergency landing zones, no-fly zones, route planning, takeoff and landing sites and governmental regulations.

Forward Air provided some clarity on longer-term margin expectations during a Friday conference call with analysts. The company beat first-quarter expectations and its new guidance came in much better than expected.

Shipping costs rise 57% to $17.1 billion.

Wabash National spent $364 million to buy into final-mile products in 2017. It is finally starting to realize the hoped-for potential.

Jacobs says 10% U.S. GDP growth is not out of the question in 2021.