There is rare turnaround family LTL success story going on in the Midwest. Iowa-based Dohrn Transfer Co., a new unit of Pittsburgh-based Pitt Ohio Transportation…
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Settle, if possible. Don’t take shortcuts on safety. Obviously, avoid truck accidents involving children by any means. And hope that somehow, some way, sensible tort…
With a $0.10-cent gain, this week’s national average came in at $2.396 per gallon. This followed a 0.004-cent decline to $2.386 per gallon, for the…
Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Walter Kemmsies, economist and chief strategist for industrial real estate firm JLL. Their wide-ranging…
With a 3.8-cent decline, this week’s national average is $2.399, following a 4.3-cent decline the week of April 27 and a 4.1-cent decline the week…
Realizing changes needed to be made to streamline its freight tendering processes, Encore Glass began looking into other options. The majority of the options did…
Indianapolis-based Celadon, which ranked as the 18th-largest TL concern with $706 million in revenue in LM’s annual rankings, abruptly ceased operations in Dec. 9, giving…
Coming off of an all-time high in August, the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported this week that its Freight Transportation Services…
This 7th article in the “A-Z” of trucking freight futures series explains how market participants can hedge fuel cost volatility risk as part of their…
With a 0.004-cent increase, this week’s average came in at $3.051 per gallon, following declines of 1.9-cents and 0.015-cents, respectively, over the previous two weeks.…
Regardless of whether a market participant ever uses binding forward and/or trucking freight futures, it will need to stay current on the pricing trends in…
Regardless of whether a market participant ever uses binding forward and/or trucking freight futures, it will need to stay current on the pricing trends in…
Regardless of whether a market participant ever uses binding forward and/or trucking freight futures, it will need to stay current on the pricing trends in…
This 5th article in the “A-Z of Trucking Freight Futures” series explains the process of determining what hedging strategies to execute on, which contracts to…
With a 0.094-cent increase, the national diesel average price per gallon is $3.081 per gallon. Source: logistics Mgmt
News surfaced recently that A. Duie Pyle, a premier provider of asset and non-asset based transportation and supply chain solutions in the Northeast, has formed…
Blume Global announced at Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) annual event in Long Beach this week that it has launched Blume CarrierGo. Source: logistics…
American Logistics Aid Network releases statement with resources for logistics community. Source: logistics Mgmt
The main hedging participants for trucking freight futures are commercial users: trucking carriers, shippers, and 3PLs. While they each have a different hedging objective, their…
This article provides a snapshot of the trucking freight futures market, starting with a summary of the basics about derivatives-futures and then diving into the…