Unusual and unpredictable freight patterns, rebuilding supply chains with new inventory, an influx of owner-operators into the market and the worsening driver shortage for company…
Posts published in “News, Logistics, 3PL, Transportation, Motor Freight,”
The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for October—at 106.8 (2015=100)—slipped 6.3%, following a 5.7% September gain (revised down from an original…
YRC Worldwide, a holding company that collectively controls about 10% of the $46 billion less-than-truckload (LTL) marketplace, is trimming its quarterly losses and going back…
With a 1.1-cent gain, the national average price per gallon came in at $2.383. This came after a 0.013-cent decline, to $2.372 per gallon, for…
Build back better? The freight transportation world certainly hopes so. Following his decisive victory, President-elect Joe Biden started receiving congratulatory messages from the freight transportation…
The national average price per gallon of diesel gasoline fell for the eighth time in the last nine weeks, according to data issued this week…
Yellow’s finances have improved during the third quarter ended Sept. 30. Operating revenue was $1.183 billion and operating income was $19.4 million. In comparison, operating…
The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for September—115.1 (2015=100)—headed up 6.7% over August, following a 5.3% decline (revised from an original…
September shipments—at 1.099—were down 1.8% annually, nearly 6% better than August’s 7.6% annual decrease and were up 7.1% compared to August. And September expenditures, which…
Averitt said that this new facility is less than 18 miles from downtown Greensboro and is comprised of a 46,0000 square-foot dock and 102 truck…
With a 0.007-cent decline, the national average is now $2.387 per gallon. This follows a 0.010-cent decline, to $2.394 per gallon, for the week of…
San Francisco-based Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, and New York-based…
Rates based on rolling averages, through September 27, came in at: $2.37 per mile for van, unchanged on a weekly basis (and is up 14…
Asset-light freight and logistics services provider Forward Air Corporation announced it is rolling out less-than-truckload (LTL) service in two new markets: Columbia, Missouri and Roanoke,…
ATA reported that the truckload carrier turnover rate, for carriers with more than $30 million in annual revenue, decreased 12%, to 82%, which represents the…
The ATA’s advanced Seaonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for August—at 107.5 (2015=100)—was off 5.6%, from July, which was at 113.9, to August, following…
GlobalTranz said that Pop-Up Fleets is geared towards high-volume shippers and shippers with private fleets needing supplemental capacity and whose customers have high service requirements,…
FTR reported that August preliminary North American Class 8 orders—at 20,500 units—came in 3% higher than July and were up 90% annually, with total units,…
ODFL reported that revenue per day increased 1.3% from August 2019 to August 2020, which it attributed to a 2.4% increase in daily LTL tonnage…
Chicago-based third-party logistics and technology-enabled transportation services provider Echo Global Logistics, and Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), a provider of AI-driven and end-to-end supply…