Trucking

Some roads are a little more treacherous than others. When it comes to trucking accidents, these nine roads are at the top.

FreightWaves adds a real time news widget with twitter feeds and up to the minute financial and transportation new reporting.

The Nikola Motor tractor is powered by a hydrogen-electric engine and has earned the company Number 24 on the FreightWaves’ Research Institute Freight.Tech 25.

Vector helps streamline trucking operations by digitizing paperwork and assists carriers and shippers in expediting workflow communication.

A number of analysts have stepped forward and issued counterarguments to a negative report on Thursday about XPO, and the company itself has announced a share buyback program.

A truck has moved freight from China to Poland in a record 13 days, via the TIR system, which requires road transport operators to only declare their data once when they are hauling goods across multiple borders.

Merge Transit is a spot market agency that helps owner-operators and small fleets reduce inefficiencies in their business, and looks to automate the process of dispatching.

McLeod Software has been at the forefront of ERP technology, servicing the whole spectrum of what lies within the core business of companies in the trucking ecosystem.

FreightWaves adds commercial vehicle accident injuries and fatalities in SONAR as well as adds regions to the TRI.

Investment bank Stifel Nicolaus (NYSE: SF) thinks that publicly-traded truckload stocks are now an attractive buy, with higher earnings available at reasonable valuations. That’s just one takeaway from a raft of research released this week by Stifel and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) as the banks look forward to what next year holds for transportation. 

The tax changes of 2017 caused some fleets to consider leasing as opposed to buying, and new accounting rule changes could have a similar effect, says Fleet Advantage.

On this episode of FreightWaves NOW, we discuss the giant storm hitting California and how it will impact freight and transportation in the area.

Since its founding in 1935, Schneider has only known three leaders: founder Al Schneider, his son Don Schneider, and Chris Lofgren, the first non-family member to lead the company. Come April 2019, you can add the name Mark Rourke to that list.

FreightWaves adds truck driver employment level estimates.

Being one of the world’s fastest-growing predictive supply chain platform and delivering real-time visibility and analytics to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and 3PLs, has helped FourKites take the #7 spot in the Freight.Tech 25. 

JD Walker’s son, Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Walker, was killed in Iraq over 11 years ago. In a few short weeks, Walker will deliver a truckload of remembrance wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery in honor of his son and other deceased veterans as part of the annual Wreaths Across America initiative.

As you sit down for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner today, you’ll be enjoying not only some great food, but the lowest average cost of Thanksgiving meals since 2010, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

A Connecticut DOT study found that tolls on the state highways could generate $1 billion a year. Despite that, the incoming governor is focused only on adding tolls for trucks.

Penske Truck Leasing and UST Global combined on an accelerated IT training program that has seen 18 graduates move into jobs in Penske’s IT department.

Net-zero carbon emissions from the transportation sector is possible by 2050 if industry starts to make changes now, says a new report.