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Spot rates are up 4% since the start of March in the Savannah to Atlanta lane, tightening capacity in Kansas City signals spot rates will start to increase

Maersk will deploy 300 Class 8 electric trucks from Einride in its U.S. warehouse and distribution network.

In its initial order for the next-generation delivery vehicle, the Postal Service surprised by ordering a mix of powertrains that includes 20% electric vehicles among the 50,000-vehicle order.

Financial technology platform Outgo emerges from stealth with a vertical banking solution that automates bookkeeping functions for carriers.

Can the air cargo market absorb a record onslaught of new capacity?

Truckers will run into delays as roads become slick and slushy across the Northeast (video forecast included).

As COVID-19 shut down businesses in the early days, criminal enterprises sought new ways to launder money, and that led them to e-commerce.

With Wabtec’s help, NS will retrofit locomotives so that they can last 20 more years.

Cost of shipping crude oil remains cheap, but tanker rates could jump if the war doesn’t end by fall.

A container fire at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has led to a Coast Guard investigation of four companies for possible shipping violations.

CEO Barkoff isn’t revealing much about the next initiatives at the 4-year-old Relay Payments, which has attracted significant investment.

Network Transport completes its move into a new, larger company headquarters as part of its expansion strategy, which adds 100 jobs over the next 12 months.

Supply chain improvement, leading to better on-shelf availability, drove positive variance relative to management’s prior guidance. Shares of General Mills rose 2.5% on Wednesday in a down market. The increase […]

Convoy founder heads to MATS via truck; how 3PLs should be working with drivers; why you need to audit your freight bills

Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.

The railcar manufacturer sees elevated scrapping levels and higher leasing rates.

The Biden administration has made $2.9 billion available for projects that expand freight capacity.

Tern, a Bay Area-based technology company founded last year, is the latest to enter the red-hot commerce returns space.

AskWaves looks to the mid-21st century, which may hold more El Nino extreme weather events, “regardless of any significant mitigation actions” to reduce emissions.

Spot rates have fallen 42 cents a mile this month in the Kansas City, Missouri, to Columbus, Ohio, lane; rejection rates in Nashville, Tennessee, are at their second-highest levels for the month.

If imported adult beverages are your thing, there’s a good chance DHL or J.F. Hillebrand took care of the shipping.

E-commerce sellers on Wix can now deliver orders through Multi-Channel Fulfillment, a service offered through Fulfillment by Amazon.

After a panel discussion extolling better relations between shippers and carriers, a question sets off a discussion on current selection processes.

Truckers face another day of dicey winter weather from Minnesota to Michigan (video forecast included).

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. leverages parent Daimler Truck North America’s dealership and service network to battle competitors.

In this issue, rates are still slumping; truckers get bathroom rights; NYC bounty hunters vs. idle trucks; the mystery of conference carpets solved?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they found a loaded gun and meth in an American trucker’s cab during an inspection at the Ambassador Bridge U.S.-Canada border crossing.

FMCSA’s safety boss grapples with a huge wave of truck entrants since the pandemic.

AskWaves looks at dynamic pricing and how it fits into an increasingly automated LTL complex.

The cause of a tractor-trailer driving off a highway and bursting into flames in Rayne, Louisiana, remains unclear.

How will cutting-edge TradeTech be used to monitor and control the actions of states and corporations?

With Daimler Truck already on board, Platform Science adds Navistar as the second manufacturer to factory install its open-source telematics.

Medical Response Drones from Draganfly will be used to deliver lifesaving medical supplies like blood and wound care kits.

Sites in Kansas, New Hampshire, Vermont and Utah now are using the Drivewyze system to reduce manual processes in truck inspections.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for federal, state and local governments to develop inland ports to improve network flows, say stakeholders.

AI and warehouse robotic companies Berkshire Grey and Swisslog join forces to accelerate adoption of warehouse robotic solutions.

Spot rates from Harrisburg to Indianapolis have stalled after a month-long drop, climbing rejection rates from Columbia to Jacksonville give a forewarning for spot rates.

Reports link Prologis as a suitor of Blackstone’s last-mile network in Europe.

Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters union agreed to settle a labor dispute through binding arbitration, averting a supply chain crisis.

Severe storms are heading to the Deep South after doing extensive damage Monday in the Plains.

The founder of the fundraising arm of the People’s Convoy says trucking organizers may “wrap up the federal convoy this week” amid dwindling donations to protest government mandates regarding COVID-19 and other political issues.

The shutdown of Canadian Pacific’s rail network is putting additional strain on the supply chain as shipments grind to a halt with backups looming at ports.

The lag in retail prices led to the biggest drop in the DOE number in seven years, but the futures price is surging.

A separate bill keeps all of the state’s 47 rest areas open to allow for truck driver stops.

Federal regulators will begin to assess how container lines are serving U.S. exporters.

Fake timestamps helped UPS collect full payment for U.S. Postal Service deliveries, federal authorities say.

“With every SAF deal, we are increasingly aware of the huge task that lies ahead in utilizing more sustainable solutions to help our customers,” said John Pearson, CEO of DHL Express.

Gatik’s Gautam Narang will be an industry keynoter at The Future of Supply Chain event.

Ship-position data shows a fleet of LNG carriers en route to Europe amid scramble to bolster energy supply.

Building geographic scale and expanding a book of business is not the main driver, Muessig says. Instead, it’s access to scarce assets.

At the press conference announcing the deal, the first user of the Locomation technology, Wilson Logistics, gave an update on what it is doing in the autonomous space.

Spot market continues to slide while contract reaches new heights; East Coast ports are getting slammed as shippers shift cargo from the West Coast; Google enters the FreightTech scene.

Rising inflation is driving up the revenue numbers of e-commerce sellers, research finds, but consumers are still shopping.

Swoop Aero, Skyports and BD Rowa are joining forces to integrate drones into pharmaceutical and health care supply chains.

Philadelphia’s OTVI has risen 3.5% since start of march, J.B. Hunt to expand intermodal fleet by 40%

AirBridgeCargo has stopped flying its large Boeing 747 cargo jets because of U.S. and European sanctions on Russia.

The multiple testing hurdles and current stay-at-home orders in China are slowing down this critical movement of trade and increasing prices.

The U.S. DOT found that the truck parking shortage exists in every state and region, but it did not include dedicated funding for truck parking in the recent infrastructure bill.

Aircon is “building technology to achieve operational efficiencies that will change what air cargo means to the global supply chain.”

“The Biden DOL will have little choice but to apply the Trump rule or face opposition,” says attorney Greg Feary.

Experts discuss how environmental impacts and supply chain resilience are becoming increasingly important.

Wind-driven wildfires continue across Texas during elevated drought conditions (video forecast included).

Higher diesel prices also mean higher costs for empty miles.

Supply chains are at risk after Canadian Pacific shut down its rail service amid a contract battle with the Teamsters.

This AskWaves considers whether the federal government is needed to launch a supply chain portal – and whether it can succeed.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: A Texas highway expansion is a “boon” for the trade economy; a Texas port announces plans for a regional logistics hub; GrubMarket acquires an Arizona produce supplier; and a Japanese auto supplier opens a plant in Ramos Arizpe.

Inventory levels grew at an astonishing pace in February. Is the supply chain crisis ending?

This week: Trucking Cares donates to Ukraine relief funds, Bendix supports hospice Pappus House and the UPS Foundation celebrates Women’s History Month.

ndicted Nikola Corp. founder dropped his attempt to move his criminal trial out of New York and sold more stock as trial date was reset to July.

The refloating of the container ship stuck in Cheseapeake Bay could be a “long, laborious operation.”

Traton Group is still focused on battery power for trucks but tossed a bone to hydrogen in raising its electrification spending to about $3 billion by 2026.

Both tender volumes and tender rejection rates take a breather over the past week. It’s too early to be called a trend but definitely…

Congestion could go from bad to worse as liners steer a record number of container ships toward East Coast ports.

American Made Chassis, an alliance of LB Steel and Integrated Industries, will build the chassis at an Illinois facility.

Getting Russian aircraft in the air to fly home is like aiding and abetting a criminal, the U.S. says. Penalties will apply.

Lives are changing for the people of Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion. Here are three examples from the freight community.

Despite the problems in the U.S. and around the world, there are some encouraging signs.

Issues mount for supply chains; scaling a FreightTech company; cannabis logistics; employee retention; developing talent; news

The board held a two-day hearing on reciprocal switching to help it determine how it should move forward.

Nashville to Elizabeth rejections are likely to increase further, In the Chicago to Atlanta lane, domestic intermodal volume hit its highest level in the past year, more

Google builds on its mobility solutions offering with the launch of two products, Last Mile Fleet Solution and Cloud Fleet Routing API.

Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels and Robert Kaferle discuss ways to avoid unnecessary stresses with proper planning.

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

As fuel prices rise, the ability of last-mile delivery firms to either absorb those costs or pass them along to customers could be key to their survival.

Trucking companies and logistics firms are among hundreds of creditors collectively owed millions of dollars after a California-based organic products manufacturer recently filed Chapter 7.

Host John Kingston also discusses why retail diesel prices haven’t plummeted with the fall in futures prices.

A recent court decision serves as notice to all employers that OSHA violations, even when wrongfully and willfully encouraged by a supervisor, can still result in liability to the employer.

Are you involved in the actual goods movement to other states or countries if you load the plane instead of fly it? Tune into SCOTUS this month to find out.

Truckers could hit an elevated risk of severe storms and tornadoes in the South over the next several days (video forecast included).

Snowplow drivers across the country have been flocking to higher-paying private sector jobs in recent years, according to a survey of transportation officials.

EPS comes in below estimates as FedEx Ground’s operating income declines.

TravelCenters of America is leaving the Canadian market after agreeing to sell the site of its truck stop in southwestern Ontario.

Maritime authority Lars Jensen says the “reality is that vessels do at times get stuck and this is not an event with major global ramifications.”

Drivers will face fines of up to $250 in Colorado if they use Interstate 70’s mountain express lanes at the wrong times.

While the early days of fuel surcharges were straightforward to calculate – although wholly unfair to shippers in many cases – that is no longer true. Many carriers struggle with explaining their fuel surcharge program to shippers, and more importantly, struggle with the budgeting aspect of a program that is historical in nature.

The quarterly report of the brokerage industry’s leading trade group shows that 3PLs did only slightly better in the rip-roaring freight market of the fourth quarter.

A fire that started at a Walmart distribution center in Plainfield, Indiana, just before noon on Wednesday continued to burn into the following morning.

Consumers are becoming more aware of both the urgency of climate change and the complexities of the supply chain. Companies should be prepared for consumers to start calculating supply chain sustainability into their purchasing decisions.

In partnership, FreightWaves and Convoy recently released a report on the awareness and impact of empty miles.

Dallas to Lakeland rejections fall but rates remain sticky; outbound tender rejections in Toledo increase; and more.