Trucking

Truckload carrier heads talk demand, rates and capacity at investor conference.

Collecting and analyzing the right metrics, including revenue per truck and maintenance expense, is part of making a trucking operation profitable.

C.H. Robinson is pushing back against a complaint, seeking class-action status, filed by more than a dozen growers that alleges the third-party logistics giant engaged in “deceptive business practices.”

Learn about nine different types of truck driving jobs that are available.

The response from CEO Jacobs is always the same: Splitting it up will achieve better shareholder value.

Drivers waste well over two hours at check-in, but Truckerd-In looks to streamline the process.

Darren Prokop writes about the volatility in trucking, and how ecommerce may help less-than-truckload carriers recover in 2020.

PAM Transportation CEO Daniel H. Cushman told FreightWaves during an interview Tuesday that his company’s trucking service to Mexico is “busting at the seams.” “It is just a month into the year, but we are already 26% over where we were last year, so we are growing at a rapid pace,” Cushman said. So when […]

Family-owned Howard Baer Inc. of Nashville, Tennessee, cites government regulations, the struggle to find qualified drivers and soaring insurance costs as factors behind its decision to close after 69 years.

FreightRoll is a trade documentation and tracking platform that enables companies to digitalize paper documents from their freight operations.

Canada’s largest transportation company looks to raise nearly $200 million as it prepares to offer 6 million shares in the United States.

This strategic partnership will provide Redwood customers with visibility into an additional 500,000 trucks.

Old Dominion Freight Line sponsors Major League Baseball, and for eight of the 30 MLB teams, the less-than-truckload carrier helps make Florida and Arizona feel like home for six weeks of spring training.

European supply chain platform Shippeo raises $22 million for expansion. Plus, Rhode Island aims to boost truck toll fees, global container movement falls and Nikola unveils electric pickup.

Many turn to factoring to ease cash crunches.

Many indicators are pointing to a better 2020 than 2019 for the freight industry, but several challenges remain, including impacts from the coronavirus.

UPS pilots stand to see improved wages and retirement benefits from a new contract.

Proposal includes discretionary grants for truck parking.

Proceeds could give Canada’s largest transportation company more firepower to pursue acquisitions as it prepares to make a big leap into capital markets south of the border.

Many measures of activity were weaker but the bottom line improved.