The highly anticipated truckload capacity crisis and the ensuing truckload rate party lasted from late 2017 through late 2018. Beginning in early 2019 – surprise – the rate party was over. It feels like carriers have quickly gone from the best party since deregulation in 1980 to potentially the biggest hangover ever!
The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) has partnered again this year with the Alliance for Toll Free Interstates (ATFI). ATFI is a national coalition comprised of individuals, businesses, and organizations working to maintain the longstanding policy of protecting existing interstates from new tolls. As a partner, TCA is working with like-minded businesses and organizations to push […]
A report indicates that the EU is slow to adopt alternate truck fuels. Indian logistics startups are flourishing. Chinese logistics firms that help Chinese businesses relocate are winners in the US-China trade war.
Trucker Jobandeep Sandhu is fighting his deportation from Canada after he exceeded the limit on his student visa.
Air cargo market expert explores the fascinating process of moving livestock – particularly horses – by air.
Prologis and Blackstone Group are both trying to acquire the U.S. warehousing portfolio of GLP.
Australia’s a big trucking nation, but you wouldn’t know it from the way some road users drive. Also in this week’s Down Under Trucking: carelessness not terrorism; fugitive truck driver; police and regulatory enforcement.
Transport ministers from 60 countries met at Leipzig to discuss strategies and the implication of global carbon emissions.
The Federal Railroad Administration is withdrawing its notice of proposed rulemaking for train crew staffing. Regulating train crew staffing is not necessary or appropriate for rail operations to be conducted safely, the agency said.
“The board has the authority to define reasonable practices. If you were in our shoes, what would you do?” said Surface Transportation Board vice chairman Patrick Fuchs to a panel representing BNSF, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.
Truck drivers in Maverick Transportation’s refrigerated division said they received messages late Thursday, May 23, stating the company is selling its temperature-controlled business to KLLM Transport Services.
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative aims to create seamless freight movement between Europe and Asia, but the sustainability aspect of the project is still unclear.
Last week the widely reported headline was “Housing Starts Climb Almost 6 Percent in April” yet many in the transportation marketplace openly questioned how that was possible. Whether it is the railroads moving the lumber to build houses or the flatbed carriers moving the lumber and other building materials to build houses, the widely held […]
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The highway and viaduct that now shoots truckers and others straight through the heart of Syracuse on interstate 81 might be no more under a plan making its way through an approval process. Instead, drivers will need to circle the city on what is now interstate 481 if the state of New York ultimately adopts […]
Guest post by FreightWaves’ John Kingston The introduction of the drug and alcohol clearinghouse in January 2020 is going to have a bigger impact on truck capacity than the recent implementation of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule, according to Eric Fuller. Fuller, the CEO of U.S. Xpress (NYSE: USX), made the remarks on a panel […]
Measure also seeks to keep 30-minute rest break, ag hauler ELD exemption.
A looming workforce supply gap in the freight forwarding sector has caused the industry to reach out to over one million high school students.
As rate pressure eases, conditions for shippers continue to improve.
Inefficient warehouse operations lead to confusion, delays and added cost. By incorporating a TMS, shippers can gain better data and improve the end-to-end process of warehouse and shipping management.
