Retailers of heavy goods like furniture face the same e-commerce delivery pressures as retailers shipping parcels, survey finds
Drivers hauling supplies in response to storm will be exempt from hours-of-service rules.
New official figures from China’s Ministry of Transport show that the volume of containerized ocean freight, as measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) through China’s 49 main box-ports in the year continue to rise despite the Washington-Beijing trade tensions. But it seems that Vietnam might be benefiting from the turbulence, according to data found in FreightWaves’ SONAR database.
Analysts and investors wait to hear about Amazon’s expanded presence in Southeast Asia and on-demand services.
20 projects in 18 states emphasized new bridge-building technology.
Image: Jim Allen/FreightWaves FreightWaves’ Lincoln Duff delivered an insightful freight market tidbit Thursday, August 29. Hello TPP Group Members, and welcome to my favorite day of the year: The start of college football! (Note: last week didn’t count, it was a good primer, but the football was sloppy and Florida was lucky to get that […]
Two days after HVH Transportation’s abrupt closure on Tuesday, August 27, truck drivers like James Delva are still stranded across the country without working fuel cards.
Bottled water by the truckload heading to Florida ahead of Hurricane Dorian.
Last-mile movement is one of the least energy-efficient operations within supply chains, and efforts need to be taken to consciously reduce energy expended in that stretch.
Technology such as dash cams, ELDs, telematics and even diagnostics systems are helping fleets better manage their drivers and assets, and the opportunities to use this data are plentiful.
A Hong Kong firm was sanctioned this week by the Office of Foreign Assets Control for its alleged role in the illegal transshipment of U.S. technology to Iran.
Mixed reality smart glasses allow workers to become hands-free with logistics operations, helping them to focus solely on the package at hand.
Strong regional and transloading demand keep inbound numbers strong.
ATA says rules should assume “drivers” will no longer be people.
Brokers large and small report surges of water loads inbound to Florida.
Atlas Air and its pilots union continue take hard lines in wake of arbritrator’s award that a contract settlement be arbitrated
Software and telematics technology provider Konexial recently launched a Spanish-language version of its electronic logging device (ELD) product, My20 ELD. Ken Evans, chief executive of Knoxville, Tennessee-based Konexial, said the company added the Spanish-language feature at the request of its carrier customers. “We recognize there are people that are of Hispanic descent that are an […]
The ATA says that fuel taxes are the best way to fund a federal infrastructure project.
Daimler Trucks North America celebrated the 750,000th build at its plant in Cleveland, North Carolina as its parent company prepares to build its heavy-duty Actros at its joint venture. in China.
A new study finds that e-scooters’ environmental footprint surpasses that of the transportation they are positioned to replace.
2019’s unfavorable operating environment claims another truckload carrier.
Nuvera Fuel Cells is working with its parent Hyster-Yale Group to make fuel cell engines for medium- and heavy-duty truck applications, mostly for drayage and other return-to-base port activities.
U.S. companies with business in Russia — even those not engaged in chemical or biological exports — should understand the sanctions to avoid compliance exposure, export compliance experts say.
Several intermodal containers on trains running between China to Europe run empty due to lack of exporter demand for capacity.
Elroy Air, an aerial autonomy and logistics company, announced the completion of its first full-scale system flight test at an airfield in California.
Marine terminals to offer guaranteed empty returns, common portals for truck appointments.
Roughly 3,580 drivers will be affected by the FMCSA’s exemption
Australia Post, a government-owned post and freight service, has reported revenues of just under A$7 billion but has experienced a massive fall in profits.
Dynamo Ventures is a Chattanooga-based supply-chain venture capitalist company. Ted Alling, a partner at Dynamo, sits down with FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller to discuss the state of startup culture in Chattanooga, TN.
Individual carriers may face consequences for putting off the switch to ELDs, but the overall market is not expected to take a hit.
The gruesome deaths of five family members leads to what may be a record-breaking award.
Anthony Levandowski, a star engineer at Google and Uber, is charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday, August 27.
As part of an Austerity Law passed by the Mexican legislature in May, commerce officials in Mexico recently ordered the closure of six foreign commercial trade offices, including customs offices in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Japan and Uruguay. The order was recently signed by the head of Mexico’s Ministry of Economy (SE), Graciela Márquez Colín, […]
Market Voice Jim Blaze writes about rail intermodal and what is happening to this area of the railroad sector.
Image: Jim Allen/FreightWaves FreightWaves’ Lincoln Duff delivered an insightful freight market tidbit from the Cincinnati market Tuesday, August 27. Cincinnati has historically been a positive headhaul market, with more outbound freight than inbound. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a pretty large shift as inbound volumes are up almost 30 percent from the average […]
Bob Costello still believes in the driver shortage.
Heartland Express once again uses its strong financial position to acquire. The carrier has a pattern of building cash balances and finding accretive tuck-in deals.
Transport and logistics businesses need to seriously consider investing in digitalization if they want to stay afloat in this rapidly evolving market.
Transflo has bundled an ELD, weigh station bypass, navigation and more into a single solution available on driver’s mobile devices.
FourKites has introduced a new analysis tool to help shippers identify unused capacity in their trailers.
It takes a year of advance planning and up to 10 loads to move a single monster turbine.
Arbritrator’s award denies Atlas Air’s pilots’ request to negotiate a contract and instead imposes an arbitrated settlement on both sides
Heartland Express has acquired Millis Transfer for approximately $150 million.
FedEx Freight expands its last-mile delivery network to 19 US markets
Chris Henry, Program Manager, TCA Profitability Program IMAGE: JIM ALLEN/FREIGHTWAVES A weekly review of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that all trucking companies should be tracking on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. These standardized KPIs are the foundation of the TCA Profitability Program’s inGauge Benchmarking Platform – the largest (and only) online benchmarking platform […]
The 2019 Chicken Sandwich Wars may have impacted the Popeyes supply chain.
Various predictions of doom are sprinkled through a document
Daimler is recalling more than 8,000 Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Sprinter vans because of a software defect that can dim or extinguish the rear taillights.
The Navy decides to migrate and consolidate logistics technology to the Cloud. Japan’s air freight industry has China as a roadblock. New York struggles to manage truck congestion.
Rapidly changing consumption patterns and increasing traffic bottlenecks in urban environs necessitate the evolution of transportation and its underlying business models to create a sustainable logistics future.
Avocado supplies are expected to return to normal after a summer shortage sent prices skyrocketing in July. Prices spiked in mid-July due to imports of avocados from Peru and Mexico tightening. In addition, the summer avocado harvest from California growers was down this season because of a heatwave in 2018, industry professionals said. “Peru imports […]
Partially synthetic lower viscosity 10W-30 and 5W-30 oils are supplanting the industry standard 15W-40 heavy-duty oil. The new formulas cost more but can bring up to 2 percent better fuel economy with longer intervals between changes.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation said it will move forward with the imposition of a second round of trade sanctions against Russia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will introduce “in the coming months” a new automated tool for importers and exporters to submit their electronic vessel manifest confidentiality requests to the agency.
CEO of Ovation Logistics hopes to have 70 to 80 percent of its fleet using zero-emissions vehicles by 2025.
The U.S. and Japan have reached a tentative trade agreement where Japan will buy more U.S. corn.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odessa, Texas, ranked #4 city for truck drivers; New U.S. Ambassador arrives in Mexico; Surgere sets its sights on Mexico supply chains; and Love’s Travel Stops opens location in Brownsville, Texas. Study: Odessa, Texas, ranked as […]
Fund would be used to transition from diesel by 2030.
Union drivers, warehousemen employed by Starbucks distributor reject ultra-short contract
The summer doldrums were broken violently by an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and tweets
Mexico manufactured 104,214 buses, heavy-duty and tractor-trailer trucks in the first half of 2019 (January-June), up 36.50 percent compared to the same period last year. The data was released August 21 by Mexico’s National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Truck Producers (ANPACT). Miguel Elizalde, the president of ANPACT, said the increased demand for heavy-duty […]
The vast majority of Aussie truck drivers are either fat or obese and they have a terrible diets, new research has found. Meanwhile, New Zealanders fund electric vehicles and Aussie trailer maker reveals a shocker set of financial results.
Hino Trucks is already increasing its investment in a new plant in West Virginia, where it will build Class 7 and 8 trucks in addition to medium-duty models.
Lime moves ahead with the backing of venture capital and hopes that car-reliant metropolitan areas like San Antonio will embrace a cleaner, more communal way to navigate city life.
Trucking stands to gain, rail to lose if project moves forward.
Amazon, following a model in the U.S., will take an equity stake in Canadian cargo airlines Cargojet.
Multiple commenters expressed concern about carriers, shippers or brokers coercing drivers to operate in unsafe conditions under the proposed rules.
Transfreight Automotive Logisitcs Europe, a fleet with over 90 vehicles, has shut down.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaport complex halted the illegal import of Chinese-made firearm parts valued at $378,225.
A discussion of the state of the possibly revived trucking market and interviews from the floor of the Great American Truck Show will highlight this weekend’s edition of FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI). Co-host Tim Dooner is at the Great American Truck Show in Dallas. He’ll have an interview with Bruce Johnson, the vice […]
Spooked shippers are trying to lock in capacity ahead of the holiday push.
Trucking, freight and international forwarding business TIL Logistics (NZX: TLL) of New Zealand has reported solid revenues of NZ$355.1 million (US$226.94) and a small net profit after tax of NZD$4 million (US$2.56 million).
Company claims faster medical deliveries means faster patient treatment.
ATSG and Atlas Air continue to fight a contract battle with their pilots union as Amazon, which uses both airlines, watches closely with peak season approaching
TIA, ATA and OOIDA call provision to make CSA scores public “dangerous”
With the recent complaints about workers’ rights, it makes sense that Doordash, like every other on-demand mobility company, is thinking about efficiency and the cost of human labor.
The freight industry is being battered by falling volumes and loosening capacity, with tightening credit standards further exacerbating the situation.
Using data from FreightWaves SONAR, economist Ibrahiim Bayaan writes about the state of the U.S. retail market and what is ahead for this key sector.
Freight tonnage will grow 25.6 percent by the end of the next decade, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) predicts in its annual ATA Freight Transportation Forecast: 2019 to 2030.
One of the more popular ways to improve efficiencies and reduce costs is through outsourcing some or all of the supply chain operations to a managed transportation provider.
Truck wait times at ports of entry along the United States-Mexico border are up, from El Paso, Texas, to Otay Mesa, California. Industry professionals said the longer wait times are a combination of truckers spending more time waiting to load and unload freight at docks and intermodal facilities, as well as slower border inspection routines […]
Digital freight brokers continue to add services in the pursuit of carrier stickiness.
The race cars, and all the equipment and accessories that go along with them, have to move from racetrack to racetrack somehow.
“Robotic process automation has already taken root in other industries like financial services. It’s a perfect time for RPA to disrupt the logistics industry, given the amount of paperwork, documentation and around-the-clock customer interaction that global transportation requires,” says Mike Motsick, CEO of RPA Labs.
Integrated bulk, rail, trucking, box, warehousing and ports operator, Qube (ASX: QUB), has announced weighty full year earnings of A$1.73 billion (US$1.5 billion). It also made net profit after tax of 15. 4 percent to A$123.2 million. But it sees a subdued economy ahead…
Canadian firm secured C$45 million loan from U.S. commercial financer Great Rock Capital to expand operations.
A new partnership between Xcel Energy and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allows drones to inspect power lines out of human sight in eight states – Colorado, Michigan, MInnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.
FreightWaves chief analytics officer Dean Croke – who has also driven more than 2 million miles behind the wheel of heavy-duty trucks – previews Copilot by Pronto.
The United States and Mexico have reached a deal to avoid a tomato anti-dumping investigation, ending a tense tariff dispute that had lingered for months. The deal was first announced by Mexico’s Economy Minister Graciela Marquez on Twitter just before midnight August 20, according to Reuters. “This result is good news as it will keep […]
The U.S. Justice Department said American Airlines has agreed to pay a $22.1 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that it falsely reported the times it transferred U.S. mail to foreign postal services.
The retirement of Mike Freeland as president and chief operating officer of engine maker Cummins Inc. led to a chain reaction that elevated four other executives.
Filament announced its adoption of the MOBI Vehicle Identity Standard within the Blocket Mobility Platform, which is a turn-key vehicle identity (VID) solution created for integrated vehicle wallet and usage-based applications. Filament is a provider of enterprise automotive blockchain and internet of things (IoT) solutions. Its hardware, software and service solutions enable connected vehicles to […]
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has provided a general advisory opinion warning U.S. exporters to use caution when sharing certain technology information in global standards-setting organizations if parties on the Entity List are involved.
Conservative Andreas Jung floats increased fees for trucks and investing the proceeds in railroads to fight climate change.
Samuel Coraluzzo has deployed I.D. Systems’ PowerFleet LV9000 asset-tracking solution into its entire fleet. The deployment gives the fleet a full ELD with a customized workflow that tracks jobs from dispatch to completion in real-time.
Maersk is partnering with Indian digital freight startup BlackBuck to enter the Indian containerized trucking market for export-import logistics.
The concept of customer experience has been around for decades but it is getting new emphasis in trucking as electric and autonomous technology arrives.
Women In Trucking will honor transportation firms at its Accelerate! Conference & Expo.
Target provides an optimistic shot in the arm as the mega-retailer reports a strong quarterly performance and raises its full-year outlook.
Most forecasts have been conservative, but not this one.
