Paced by a combination of rising truckload volumes, due largely to high levels of retail imports and peak produce shipments, June spot and contract truckload…
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The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for June—at 111.6 (2015=100)—fell 1.5%, from May to June, after a 1% May decline, to…
GEODIS officials said that bringing Velocity into the fold expands GEODIS’ Capacity Solutions freight brokerage offering in North America at a time when the industry…
Phoenix-based national truckload carrier Knight-Swift Transportation announced it has thrown its hat into the less-than-truckload (LTL) arena, acquiring Dothan, Alabama-based LTL carrier AAA Cooper Transportation…
The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for May—at 113.7 (2015=100)—was off 0.7%, following a 12.2% April decline and a 5.1% March…
For the week of June 14, the national diesel average increased 1.2 cents, to $3.286 per gallon., ahead of weeks ending June 7, May 31,…
Lowell, Ark.-based trucking and intermodal services bellwether J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced that its subsidiary, J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. has partnered up with autonomous…
The April TCI, which is the most recent month for which data is available, came in at 16.82, topping March’s 16.17, the previous all-time high.…
The latest issue in trucking is actually a renewal of a 15-year-plus battle against truckers who go too fast. It pits safety advocates and large…
ODFL reported that revenue per day increased 47.6% annually, driven by a 28.3% gain in daily LTL tonnage, as well as LTL revenue per hundredweight…
Portland, Ore.-based DAT Freight & analytics, an online marketplace for spot market truckload freight, and Chicago-based FourKites, a provider of real-time tracking and visibility solutions…
Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Uber Freight a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul,…
A piece of bipartisan legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month by Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Seth Moulton (D-MA)…
For the week of May 24, the national average came in at $3.253 per gallon, edging out the week of May 17 by $0.004 cents…
The March SCI, which is the most recent month for which data is available, came in at -17.8, six points below February’s -11.8 and also…
Following three years of investment from its engineers and data scientists, Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy announced today that it has introduced new automated drop-and-hook…
Major trucking companies’ use of owner-operators in California has been thrown into legal limbo after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently…
Coming off of March, which was the highest monthly output ever, April was the second-highest, even with the sequential decline, coming in at 225, a…
For the week of May 17, the national average came in at $3.249 per gallon, topping the week ending May 10, at $3.186 per gallon,…
The apparent hacking of the nation’s major East Coast oil pipeline by the Russia-backed DarkSide cyberattack group is giving the Biden administration more ammunition to…