Trucking

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 […]