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Trucking
FreightWaves Freight Intel Group: Trucking company failures likely to increase in 2019
FreightWaves Freight Intel Group predicts an increase in trucking company failures in 2019. Read why they make that prediction in…
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Freight Futures
Freight brokers: capacity loosening and shippers driving down rates in July
Capacity has returned to freight markets and spot rates are falling against "contract."
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Insights
Commentary: How on-demand freight is poised to transform logistics
Commentary by Bill Driegert, Senior Director of Uber Freight, explores the current and near-future of on-demand freight.
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Finance
Lakefront: hedging trucking rate risk could raise public carrier valuations
We caught up with Gary Saykaly, who is running a new Trucking & Freight Derivatives Group at Lakefront Futures &…
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Economics
FreightWaves Freight Intel Group researches “everything freight and logistics”
The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group is producing research culled from FreightWaves SONAR and other sources. Read about its first several…
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Freight Futures
Southwest’s fuel hedging strategy: an example for Trucking Freight Futures
Southwest surfed the volatility in petroleum markets and maintained a strong financial position by aggressively hedging jet fuel.
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Freight Futures
Southwest’s fuel hedging strategy: an example for Trucking Freight Futures
Southwest surfed the volatility in petroleum markets and maintained a strong financial position by aggressively hedging jet fuel.
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Company earnings
Analysts react to Echo’s Q4 results
Today’s selloff on soft revenue growth guidance went too far, according to Stifel’s Bruce Chan and Susquehanna’s Bascome Majors.
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Company earnings
ECHO beats earnings on managed transportation growth
ECHO pivoted away from the spot market and also leaned into LTL.
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Freight Futures
Trucking Freight Futures Road Show hits Wall Street, heads to Chicago
FreightWaves, DAT, Nodal Exchange, and K-Ratio pitched trucking freight futures to a diverse group of financial institutions and media and…
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