Specialty trailer equipment got a boost in October as overall orders rose, but dry and refrigerated vans didn’t keep pace.
One of the drawbacks of hydrogen adoption as a transportation fuel is the lack of infrastructure. Guess what? A network of hydrogen fueling already exists.
As a seed-stage startup, Ali Javidan’s Range Energy doesn’t have much to show yet for his idea of electrifying trailers.
Charlotte, North Carolina, is seeing a slow recovery after volumes dropped to their lowest levels since February of 2021, and reefer volume in Milwaukee is up more than 22% this week.
Requirements from the carrier point of view, Suez Canal tolls get a hike, and it’s time to renegotiate the West Coast Longshore and Warehouse Union contract.
Refrigerated trucks, or reefer trucks as they are known in the trucking industry, play a vital role in the supply chain.
Driving long-haul reefer trucks can be challenging, according to message boards and trucking forums.
Investments in cold chain visibility and control solutions help ensure the integrity of the cargo and efficient capacity use when capacity is scarce.
As Wabash National streamlines its business, the trailer manufacturer will convert reefer capacity to add 10,000 dry vans in 2023.
Look behind soft June trailer orders for the real story of what’s happening in a constrained equipment market.
Trucking companies, third-party logistics providers (3PLs), brokers, shippers and members of the FreightTech community share their thoughts on produce shipping for the 2021 season.
Fleets placed 52,000 preliminary orders for new trailers in September, the third-highest month in history as pandemic-driven consumer goods demand continues unabated.
A specialized freight brokerage is backstopped by 425 reefer tractors.
Temperatures of 110 to nearly 120 degrees likely for several days.
Possible record-breaking heat coming to one of the nation’s highest-volume reefer markets.
It will feel like 100 to 110 degrees outside from the Carolinas to the mid-Atlantic, putting possible stress on drivers and their trucks.
Temperatures over 110 degrees for several days to keep reefer drivers on their toes in the Southwest.
Logistics continues to adapt due to globalization and technological innovations. This article explores trends that may change logistics in 2020.
Snow, frigid temperatures hitting markets with tight reefer capacity.
Another series of periodic snowfalls ahead for the Northwest mountains.
Quebec-based Morneau Eskimo nearly doubles fleet with purchase of long-standing Toronto partner Beacon Transit Lines, strengthening coverage of food industry customers.
A colder than normal spring across northwestern Mexico meant the Mexican table grape export campaign suffered a delay of several weeks, spiking demand in June for reefer trucks out of Arizona and south Texas. Coupled with a record-breaking Hermosillo, Mexico-based table grape crop, this year’s export campaign has been a perfect storm of a late […]
Freight brokers report upward pressure on spot rates and still expect robust summer volumes.
Green shoots: reefer capacity is tightening in south Florida, south Texas, and southern California.
Cold supply chains suffer from opacity in their operations, which could turn disastrous especially during handoffs – when products are left unattended and might slip out of the prescribed conditions it needs to be stored under. Technology like IoT sensors and blockchain could help companies to monitor their cargo movement better.
Andrew Silver, CEO of MoLo Solutions, looked back at 2018 and talked about the challenges and joys of running a high-growth brokerage, December freight markets, and and MoLo’s plan for 2019.
The November Market Update, presented in partnership with Convoy, featured FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller and Chief Economist Ibrahiim Bayaan, who discussed macroeconomic data and trends in freight markets.
As the trucking industry continues to broadly install and learn to use the ELDs, there are beginning to be large disparities in the way the devices are impacting capacity via mode.
Techpertise together with TMW Systems …Cooltrax provides Internet of Things devices to monitor temperature-controlled pallets, but also adds data analytics dashboards and insightful KPIs to bring value back to shippers’ logistics operations.
The Mother’s Day demand for reefer trucks full of flowers has stressed an already tight capacity segment that is hauling record fruit and vegetable tonnage. The result? An unprecedented spike in reefer spot rates.
There’s a quiet spot market nationally, but we’re seeing significant upward movement for reefers coming out of California’s agricultural regions.
Container traffic into the Port of Seattle is down 22.6% YTD, starving the city of freight. Trucking spot rates have cratered, and turndowns have dropped 75% since their peak in October as carriers are forced to accept lower prices.
