Biden’s FMCSA buried a FOIA request seeking to link driving schools to fatality data.
Eliminating fuel fraud with unique QR codes and flexible business rules.
Former Celadon trucking officials have settled a fraud case with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
McLeod enhances its rate index calculator with high-frequency spot rate data.
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Lean wants to add more clients outside of transportation and logistics.
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With this acquisition, STORD will now provide a variety of freight hauling options aside from its core functionality of on-demand warehousing.
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Guest commentator Eric Masotti writes about the importance of technology in logistics – but also underscores the importance of dedicated people to the process.
The uncertainty that accompanies a disaster can shake a network to its core. There are ways to build a more resilient team.
Transportation invoice volumes fall 7.5% for payment services provider Cass Information Systems.
Contracted volumes, tender rejections, and spot rates all fell.
Rose Rocket’s order management platform integration with Geotab’s system gives trucking companies more tools to offer shippers, including track and trace and real-time ETA
Profitability is the key to any business staying in business. In trucking it is harder than in many other businesses. Chris Henry explores the “trucking profitability paradox.”
Chris Henry runs fleet profitability benchmarking and analytics for FreightWaves and facilitates the TCA’s TPP program. If you are interested in benchmarking your fleet’s performance with the best operators, join TCA’s TPP. The data presented in this article come from analytics of over 230 truckload for-hire fleets, representing more than 70,000 trucks. A wise trucker […]
A number of readers responded to Brian Aoaeh’s 12/26/19 “Commentary: Trucking industry observations heading into 2020.” His current commentary features some of those responses and information from Anthony Campo, a trucking industry veteran.
FreightWaves Market Expert Chris Henry provides a look into truckload’s year that was and commentary on a possible path toward consistent profitability.
FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller writes about the issues the trucking industry dealt with in 2019 and what is ahead in 2020.
Brian Aoaeh writes about key trucking events in 2019 and looks ahead to 2020.
The official announcement followed a chaotic weekend of credit, customer, and driver issues,
The billion-dollar truckload carrier’s failure is one of the largest in industry history.
A few holdouts have yet to make the transition from AOBRDs to ELDs.
Transplace’s 2019 Carrier Symposium in Dallas discussed the latest topics impacting the carrier industry, including both capacity excesses and shortages, ELDs, regulatory changes, and driver issues. Frank McGuigan, chief executive of Transplace, kicked off the symposium with a “State of the Business” address, saying supply chains are more complex than ever and expanding; and that […]
Digital freight brokers continue to add services in the pursuit of carrier stickiness.
PE firms pay up to eight times EBITDA for chemical haulers.
Near-shoring staff in Colombia has become a big trend for U.S. transport and logistics companies.
Michigan State University and the FreightWaves Freight Intel Group have developed research on spot market freight. Read about that research here.
FMCSA has agreed to implement a series of actions as it works toward the possible implementation of a more data-driven to identifying at-risk carriers for intervention.
While the topic of the nation’s driver squeeze remains on the table, sign-on bonuses have come under intense scrutiny. As with recent pay increases, we’ve seen a boost in bonuses offered by some of the biggest names in the game.
Lanehub is developing a social network where mostly shippers and carriers come together to identify long term efficiencies by aligning their networks—and they just lined up another round of seed funding.
To get a more detailed look at the impact ELDs are having on the industry, FreightWaves talked with drivers and a fleet that has been running the devices, and each has reported different experiences, but in the end, the concern of all of them is that the devices simply work.
