The success of California’s ambitious clean truck programs hinges on giving financial incentives to small trucking companies so they can afford to pay for the vehicles.
Prologis enters the new year with “optimism and confidence” as logistics real estate remains in high demand. Fourth-quarter financial results and 2021 guidance come in ahead of forecasts.
Wall Street reacts negatively to the latest earnings report, but Covenant suggests it’s playing a long game.
Maier is succeeded by FedEx Freight head John Smith; Lance Moll will replace Smith at the LTL unit.
Ryder offers a wide range of alternative fuel vehicles based on customer demands, total cost of ownership and sustainability goals. FreightWaves interviewed Richard Mohr, CTO at Ryder, to dive deeper.
The continuing impact from COVID impacts results but the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF parent company still turns in positive numbers.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, TFI International will acquire UPS Freight. Plus, the West Coast has supplanted Chicago as the king of the freight world, and outbound tender volumes keep falling.
Past Forward Air CFO Andy Clarke outlines his outlook for improving returns at his former company. He represents an activist investor group, which includes turnaround investment firm Ancora Advisors and Forward’s founder.
“Driver detention is a leading cause of lost earnings and driver dissatisfaction,” said Elkins.
A tractor-trailer hauling a load of honeybees overturned Sunday, releasing a swarm in downtown San Antonio.
Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks are making parts easier to find and order by integrating a truck’s vehicle ID with its fleet unit number.
TFI International has agreed to buy UPS Freight for about $800 million in its largest acquisition to date.
FreightWaves’ Sales & Marketing Summit will feature insights and in-depth knowledge from some of the leading sales and marketing professionals in freight today, including keynote addresses from Emerge’s Andrew Leto and leading marketing expert Joe Pulizzi.
Mexican authorities have seized seven tanker trucks and more than 178,400 gallons of stolen fuel since Jan. 1, 2021.
The Inland Empire continued a record streak of warehouse development, with over 50 million square feet of transactions in 2020.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Tecma acquires cross-border trucking firm; Mexican carrier achieves CTPAT certification; Boyd Corp. opens factory in Juárez, Mexico; and massive new industrial/logistics park set for Arizona.
Deliveright, a digital delivery network for heavy goods, announced the launch of a new app with e-commerce company Shopify.
A deal has been reached to end a strike by workers at the Hunts Point market in New York, with a vote by rank-and-file Teamsters to take place Saturday.
A Feb. 5 sentencing date has been set for a bookkeeper who pleaded guilty to devising an elaborate scheme to defraud a family-owned trucking company and farm in Missouri out of more than $700,000. Christen Diane Schulte, 34, of Washington, Missouri, pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering charges in […]
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, raising fuel taxes could be an option to pay for infrastructure, and a truck driver who faced a life-or-death decision on a bridge is rewarded for his choice.
