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People in the U.S. territory of the Mariana Islands are bracing for Super Typhoon Yutu. Destructive winds and major flooding likely to start soon.

The vegetables could be contaminated with salmonella and listeria. Stock sell-off longer than past flash crashes. GM’s driverless cars facing headwinds. Automation needs more planning.

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, as stepped down from being chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, stating that the company needs a more “hands-on chair” to invest in its growth.

The UPS Freight 30-day period is coming to an end and rank-and-file angry with the ratification decision in the face of a “no” vote are not sitting quietly.

Even as the trucking industry struggles to identify new drivers, there is a segment of the U.S. population that is facing unemployment rates above 27% that are looking for jobs. Can felons fill the driver gap?

The Danish firm throws in the towel, claiming the Swiss company was unwilling to “engage directly.”

Crude-by-rail is big growth driver for quarter as rail remains key outlet for Canadian crude.

Infrastructure projects “will strengthen our ports, harbors and waterways and will create and sustain jobs,” says Oregon lawmaker Peter DeFazio.

While the index is still showing significant gains over last year, there clearly is a decline from recent highs.

Typhoon Yutu about to slam into the Mariana Islands. Guam might not end up a direct target, but wind and flood damage likely.

Capacity constraints, strong demand, and chaotic tariff-related traffic pushed transpacific containers rates to new heights, but the current inbound container surge, unrelated to consumer demand, will create a steeper drop off in Q1 2019.

Revenue forecasts were reached only because of a one-time tax event. But by almost any other standard, it was a strong quarter.

Sears was also a pioneer in all things omnichannel and what we now call last mile. Why did they fail to innovate this time around?

Giant mosquitoes are popping up across the Florida panhandle in aftermath of Hurricane Michael. Health officials trying to keep them under control.

So, you won the $1.6 billion lottery. All that money would require HOW many flatbed trailers to carry?

Major Hurricane Willa smashing into Mexican islands, will hit west coast of mainland later today. Dangerous storm surge, flooding, and winds.

It is a significant widening of activities at the TraPac facility.

Extra gate capacity aims to reduce turn times for drivers.

FreightWaves adds energy market related data to SONAR.

Supply chain software company E2open is in the process of acquiring the world’s largest neutral maritime network INTTRA, in its bid to expand its services to the ocean container industry.

Also in the pickup: IMO meets with 2020 on the horizon; Rhine levels are causing plants to shut down; C.R. England and its charitable cause

It may mean less now in an era of higher pay, but if total hours don’t exceed the minimum wage, it could be an issue because of this ruling.

Since its launch, Convoy has been innovating with technological solutions aimed at reinventing the way freight moves across the country. To help fulfill that mission, the company is now expanding beyond its Seattle, WA, roots to a second office located in Atlanta.

President and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based industry voice discusses regulatory issues that are most pressing to the future of container shipping.

As much as 55 million tons of computers, TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators and more are discarded annually worldwide.

Nicole D’Agostino is tapped as a business development manager; Don Davis is hired as vice president of strategic fleet solutions.

We take a look at August’s Class 8 natural gas truck retail sale numbers.

Venture brings together two of the largest names in U.S. frac sand production to provide integrated delivery solution.

The plant at the heart of the story was acquired by XPO a few years ago. The company reportedly was stunned by the allegations in the article.

Overall truckload volumes and spot rates are soft, but a huge wave of containers hit the West Coast in September, retail demand is strong, and additions to the national fleet of drivers have been marginal.

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Major Hurricane Willa about to hit western Mexico. Extensive flooding and wind damage likely. Could flood parts of U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.

The usual signs of an upturn in the trucking sector aren’t there, according to the Wall Street house, and Morgan wonders if a lot of the demand got pushed forward.

In partnership with Slync.io… Multi-partner views of realtime supply chain data are necessary to eliminate manual communications processes like email, which will remove friction and add value to collaborative relationships.

West Coast ports post strongest volumes ever; Norfolk Southern is moving to Atlanta; flatbed tender rejections stay down; expect electric trucks in 2020; pregnant XPO Logistics warehouse workers suffer miscarriages; E2open buys Inttra; Iraq produces more oil but can’t rebuild.

Parts of the Gulf Coast states could flood this week as steady rain develops. Heavy snow could fall in portions of interior New England.

SONAR’s Headhaul Index map and the HAUL.JOT Index are both showing that the return to growth in inbound loaded container flow first seen in the Long Beach/LA port is continuing and gathering momentum.

Uber Freight introduces three new features to its app, making it more customizable and intuitive, and helping drivers and carriers better manage their loads and time schedules.

The Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation/logistics/supply chain marketplace, is pleased to announce that GTG Technology Group has joined the Alliance.

Incongruent payment cycles make it hard for low-credit businesses to fund their operations. BAM is a Fintech solution for the world’s oldest method of raising capital, factoring.

The industry clearly is moving in the direction of precision railroading being the “way to go.” Now it’s time to figure out the possibilities and the hurdles.

The International Maritime Organization has released online programs that it says will help develop national strategies.

The freight brokerage company, which just completed the acquisition of AFN, is looking at four more opportunities.

David Parrott is promoted to vice president, and Holly Cuccolo is hired to lead solutions design.

Comments by the railroad previously were somewhat vague. But the CEO wasn’t vague in a video to employees.

Will the combination of oil prices, refinery cracks and scrubber economics result in easing of fears of tight supplies? Two reports chime in.

Demand for flatbeds always drop off this time of year, but is this a sign of a broader industrial slowdown?

Spireon hosted a webinar in collaboration with FreightWaves earlier this week to explore how the DRIVE-Safe Act could affect the driver shortage if it becomes law.

Europe’s largest port becomes the third in the region to start testing distributed ledger technology.

A new topical storm named Vicente is spinning over the eastern Pacific. Potential for crop damage, life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides.

Railroad sees more appliance and brown paper freight moving off road transportation to rail.

XPO Logistics was named to the Fortune Future 50 list of U.S. public companies while KeepTruckin and Transfix were both honored by Forbes as two companies likely to achieve unicorn status.

We look at capacity and congestion statistics from the ASCE’s Infrastructure Report Card.

In an effort to give our subscriber base input on a hot topic – HOS changes – we decided to conduct a survey during the FMCSA open comment period. Check out what we found!

Trump government looks to phase out IMO2020 sulfur cap regulations; Shanghai Composite Index crashes by 3%; Amazon revisting cities for finalizing HQ2.

Uber Inc. has introduced Powerloop, an affiliate company to Uber Freight, which would rent out power-only trailers to carriers looking to grow their business and thereby ease the industry’s capacity crunch.

One quarter ago, their earnings were feared to have marked a peak. But there’s no signs of that reading the third quarter numbers.

The Trump administration suggested delaying the Jan. 1, 2020, implementation of a global regulation to lower the sulfur content in ship fuel, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Railroad sees better volumes in energy and other bulk freight, with road-to-rail opportunities coming next year.

The American Association of Port Authorities inducts officers; California businessman is sworn in; and longtime employee is promoted.

User trials are under way as the Chinese retailer opens its logistics network to consumers.

45 companies applied for a spot in the annual Innovators Pavilion at the FIA Futures & Options Expo, 15 finalists were chosen, 5 were selected by a panel of judges to present at the at FIA Innovator of the Year pitch competition, but only 1 came out on top.

Excess rain, record snowfall made North Dakota fields muddy last week. Crop damage not likely, but harvests will be delayed.

We pull public safety statistics from the ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card in our latest Infographic.

The CEO of Heartland defends the company’s strategy that saw a lot less revenue but a lot more in profits.

Flooding in central Texas has killed several people, washed away roads and homes. More rain will fall at times rest of the week.

FreightWaves is excited to announce that Mark Solomon, formerly the executive editor at DC Velocity, has joined our editorial team as Managing Editor of freight markets.

Continuing efforts to fight what he says are unfair trade practices, the administration of President Donald Trump announced the U.S. will pull out of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) treaty, which sets how much can be charged for international shipping.

Deal for Australian freight forwarder and customs broker to increase exposure to growing regional economy.

The FreightWaves Research Institute has announced the list of 55 voters who will be choosing the inaugural winners of the Freight.Tech 25 awards, and it’s who’s who of freight leaders.

The credit rating agency says that well-capitalized, risk-sharing joint ventures between incumbent automakers have the best chance of successfully bringing AV products to market safely and at scale.

Though blockchain is a technology with immense potential, there needs to be some commercial incentive for food supply chains to adopt it in its mainstream processes – the absence of which might let the technology remain constrained to pilot programs.

In partnership with Reliance Partners …A Canadian research team is trying to better understand factors that impact driver’s health, safety, and wellness.

Also in today’s issue: a beating shows the dangers to truckers, even off the road; an Indian company looks to disrupt that company’s trucking sector.

American Chemistry Council says retaliatory duties have erected a huge barrier to China’s growing markets.

A significant falloff in revenue went along with the rise in profitability as the operating ratio took a big leap forward.

Lithium is going to be in there, the industry wants cobalt out or lowered, and a few other metals are lining up to take its place in the next generation of batteries.

Load consolidation expertise, U.S. offshore markets coverage and Asia Pacific import business will “markedly enhance” networks.

Agency has 45 days to study changes planned by Los Angeles and Long Beach terminals.

Supply chain stakeholders use volume pricing rates when they need a spot quote for shipments that don’t fit within traditional LTL or truckload parameters.

A significant falloff in revenue went along with the rise in profitability as the operating ratio took a big leap forward.

Non-stop rain has flooded central parts of the Lone Star State, possibly responsible for four deaths. Bridges washed out, homes damaged, potential crop losses.

The number of trucks sold at auction climbed notably in September, and pricing trended lower. Model year 2015 trucks took a particularly hard hit thanks to higher volume and higher average mileage.

Which stops are preferred by truckers? We look at the 2018 King of the Road survey from Atlas Van Lines to find out.

Right now it’s actually not a dearth of coders that we face; it’s a dearth of people who possess the skills necessary to manage others, including one’s own self.

October of 2018 has been very different from the same month a year ago thus far. We have had 2 major hurricanes make landfall and the economy is still strong. So why does it seem so different?

VAYAVISION, an Israeli startup that works on providing raw data fusion and perception systems for autonomous vehicles has raised $8 million in seed financing, which it plans to invest in its productization process.

From on-demand trucking to blockchain, loadboards and freight matching, the list of companies bringing innovative technologies to the freight industry is growing by the day, which makes the 100 that have made the cut to be honored by the FreightWaves Research Institute as part of its inaugural Freight.Tech 100 all the more special.

SONAR’s signature index has a birthday; Ocean Network Express to lose $600M; oilfield service companies guide for tight margins in Q3; President Trump bails on coal industry incentives; pros and cons of blockchain in container shipping; spending 60,000 hours reverse-engineering a Tesla Model 3.

Housing starts fell more than expected in September, as the impact of Hurricane Florence caused a massive decline in construction activity in the South.  This put a damper on what would otherwise be a decent report and leaves some uncertainty about the underlying strength of one of the key components of freight demand.

The Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) is pleased to announce that BP, a global energy leader, has joined the organization.

Although some of its individual ORs were less than a year ago, the company said its 14-month record on OR is its best ever.

German logistics giant DB Schenker is partnering with what3words to help its customers optimize supply chains by specifying accurate pick-up and drop-off points through three-word addresses.

In Partnership with Arrive Logistics… we talk freight market data with executives from Arrive Logistics and ask them how they’re preparing to handle surging volumes in Q4 and beyond.

CSX beats estimates as coal volumes post strong gains, but increasing share in intermodal is the railroad’s next plan.

Linx Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, announced that it successfully sold its investment in Grammer Industries to Stellex Capital Management.

Move comes on the heels of last week’s rejection of a purchase offer from DSV.

Be mindful of new EU sanctions against chemical weapons proliferation as they relate to U.S. companies’ European branches and affiliates.

American Shipper webinar featuring experts from Schneider, Carrier Corp. and CLC Solutions begins at 2 p.m.