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Trucking
Conditions continue to improve for shippers
As rate pressure eases, conditions for shippers continue to improve.
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Trucking
Today’s Pickup: Kenworth adds remote diagnostics to medium-duty trucks; Trucking Conditions Index falls
Good day, Truck makers have been insisting that medium-duty truck owners are starting to look for the same type of…
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News
Truck trailer orders down again in February, but analysts predict another record year
Truck trailer orders dropped for the third straight month in February.
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News
Today’s Pickup: DHL Group hopes to attract drivers by getting them out of the truck, trailer orders come in high again
Deutsche Post DHL Group (XETRA: DPW) has taken a new approach to recruiting driving in Europe: offering to rotate them…
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Economics
2019: The year of the same, or maybe better
More of the same. That was the consensus in a quick informal poll of listeners to FTR’s State of Freight…
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Driver issues
FTR and ACT report another banner month in the class 8 order book
If the trucking market is nearing a peak, it isn’t showing up in the order books of truck OEMs.
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Infographics
Class 8 Truck Orders — September 2018
North American Class 8 net orders came in around 42,800 units in September, according to preliminary data released by ACT…
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News
September truck orders remain strong, drop from August highs
North American Class 8 net orders came in around 42,800 units in September, falling 19 percent from August’s 53,069 units,…
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News
A former administrator of FMCSA weighs in on the problems still plaguing the ELD rule
Beyond the Hours of Service rule that is under consideration for changes by the federal government, the introduction of the…
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Driver issues
Thinking about switching to intermodal? There may not be any space for you
A lack of crews and a slowdown in system operations is squeezing intermodal capacity and shutting off an alternative for…
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