Container terminals and supporting facilities were closed Monday as the Northeast U.S. was pounded by the biggest winter storm in a decade.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a “significant East Coast winter storm threat” for this weekend, with a coastal low forming Friday and rapidly intensifying into a bomb cyclone as it tracks up the Eastern Seaboard. If you’re running freight anywhere from the Carolinas to Boston over the next five days, you need to pay attention right now.
Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina have issued 14-day emergency waivers for federal hours-of-service rules to expedite essential winter storm relief through January.
With memories of 2021’s crippling winter storm that parked an estimated 300,000 trucks nationwide, logistics leaders are bracing as Winter Storm Fern prepares to bring snow and hazardous icy conditions to major freight hubs along the U.S. Southeast.
Trucking operations in the Midwest will halt this weekend.
Highways, airports, and distribution centers to be most affected by icy weather.
Major impacts to travel are happening across the midwest as an early season storm brings snow and ice to the regions.
NOAA’s US winter outlook
Intermittent delays are possible late-week as the next winter storm heads to the Midwest (video forecast included).
Snow and ice have forced airport closures and flight cancellations from Texas to Pennsylvania (video forecast included).
A “bomb cyclone” is expected to hit the Northeast and disrupt air traffic.
Here are some common effects of winter weather on fuel economy.
Reefer capacity has tightened to all-time levels, pushing spot rates for produce moves to seasonal peaks ahead of schedule.
The underlying fundamentals of the market are showing signs of moving slowly back toward a more stable scenario and spot rates may be unable to paint the full picture.
Employees can be “your greatest liabilities if they’re not trained properly,” says Infinit-I Workforce Solutions CEO Jay Wommack. So he is offering a free training video for truckers.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says winter storm disruptions are a “temporary setback” to COVID vaccine delays.
U.S. Class I rail operations are seeking to return to normal, with intermodal terminals opening in the central and western U.S. But the overall network is experiencing delays in multiple locations.
Successive winter storms this week have been wreaking havoc on freight flows. Texas has been hit the hardest (with forecast video).
