The demand for temperature controlled equipment is keeping the freight market active for reefer carriers and produce haulers, but general volumes continue to slide off 2018 highs.
Recent produce volumes out of California increasing as much as 40 percent.
Rainfall records and hail have ruined some cherry crops out west. The timing couldn’t be much worse for growers.
Freight volumes should be increasing heading towards Memorial Day weekend, but they are headed the other direction as shippers take a pause over tariff concerns.
A look into the supply and demand of avocados.
Asparagus from Mexico and California moves around the world as air cargo from Los Angeles International Airport.
Today on FreightWaves NOW, Nick Austin alerts us to road conditions throughout the country, and Chief Insight Officer, Dean Croke, tells us what “Shiny Hiney” means, why it’s a good time for reefer freight, and what do strawberries have to do with it? All this and more happening right NOW.
FreightWaves adds agricultural truckload prices and numerous warehousing and real estate data points to SONAR.
Americans have become used to buying fruit and vegetables year-round. But it wasn’t always that way, and improved transportation is the key to year-round produce.
By 2022 consumers could be spending $100B a year on online groceries.
Ever wonder where the U.S. gets its produce during the winter months? Our latest infographic may help answer that question.
Able Freight Services, a leading global cold chain logistics provider with 25 years in business, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry.
