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 company reports strong fiscal 2021 fourth-quarter results, but warns that a persistent labor shortage will drive up costs and impede productivity.
The boom in cold storage construction is partly fueled by consumers shopping for groceries online.
The union’s declaration establishes the `Amazon Project,’ with the long-term goal of creating a division to organize company workers.
Reliance Partners Director of Safety Robert Kaferle makes it clear that safety consulting in most cases helps rather than hurts premiums.
President Joe Biden endorses a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package developed by a bipartisan group of senators.
Navigating the logistics of time-sensitive, specialized renewable energy projects is no walk in the park when capacity constraints and port congestion are at play.
The 32nd version of the venerable report waxes philosophical on why more, not less, logistics spending will be needed.
High demand and tight capacity have less-than-truckload carriers testing years of investments that are designed to handle this type of environment. Many of FedEx Freight’s service woes were captured in the data leading up its cancellation announcement.
Nikola Corp. is investing $50 million to buy a 20% stake in an Indiana clean hydrogen company to eventually supply fuel cell trucks in the Midwest.
Another nail in the coffin in the company’s relationship with its largest customers?
An Ohio-based transportation company and three of its trucking company affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, despite receiving PPP loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration to stay afloat during the pandemic.
Three people are arrested as police end a protest that left hundreds of trucks stuck at the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border in eastern Canada.
Hirschbach Motor Lines announced that it has acquired Lessors Inc. The deal marks the second combination of two temperature-controlled carriers in the last week.
A double whammy of few new trucks and fleets wanting upgraded equipment in a booming freight market is driving prices to a post-Great Recession peak.
The trucking industry has been taking it on the chin ever since the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River closed six weeks ago. The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) shut it down on May 11 after one of the agency’s inspectors found a cracked beam in the span. Related: I-40 bridge over Mississippi River […]
Delegates will vote on whether to eliminate a provision requiring a contract to be ratified even if a majority rejects it.
The company will add Missouri, Illinois and Kansas and deepen coverage in Louisiana and Arkansas, effective in early September.
Traffickers used trucks outfitted with secret compartments and hydraulically operated trap doors to transport millions of dollars worth of drugs from California and Mexico to Canada, police said as they announced the takedown of a suspected smuggling ring.
The land borders between the United States, Canada and Mexico will remain closed to nonessential travelers for at least another 30 days.
