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Drone systems operator American Robotics gets milestone approval and waiver from the FAA.

Ulta Beauty turns 1,300 stores into fulfillment centers; Seko Logistics launches tech to support customer service in the final mile.

The easiest way to keep roadside incidents in check — and protect profits — is to invest in predictive maintenance technology upfront.

FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller provides insight into the state of trucking contract rates.

Procter & Gamble was chosen as a Shipper of Choice — an award that recognizes retailers and distributors that value their carrier relationships.

Pitney Bowes is the second major customer in Texas to deploy Gatik’s Class 6 autonomous trucks.

Jacob Patterson, who worked at TQL for nearly 14 years, claims his lawsuit against the second-largest freight brokerage in the U.S. “demonstrates the extraordinary measures TQL will take to harm the career prospects of an employee who has the temerity to leave the company.”

Two of the larger unions, BLET and SMART-TD, were unable to reach a tentative labor agreement last week. But both “remain committed” to reaching one.

Locomation has an eight-year agreement with Stevens Trucking to operate autonomous relay convoys on four interstate routes.

Dwell times in the Port of Los Angeles dropped below four days, and outbound volumes are up in Savannah, Georgia, due to more imports being sent to the East Coast.

Computer module thefts from older-model Freightliner Cascadias are slowing, but owner-operators are still being sidelined.

California’s container-ship traffic jam is almost gone, replaced by stubbornly high backlogs off the East and Gulf coasts.

Loomis Express workers across Canada could go on strike by noon Wednesday.

“FedEx is not just making an investment. They are also rightly identifying tracking and visibility as vital areas in the supply chain,” says Cambridge Capital’s Benjamin Gordon.

Flexport is taking a page from Amazon’s growth model. The logistics provider just hired its third executive from the Amazon tree.

The holiday peak season could provide carriers with the perfect opportunity to strengthen their relationships with shippers going into the new year, securing more consistent and higher-value freight as the market continues to loosen.

Lufthansa is a major international cargo carrier, but it is adding smaller jets to shuttle packages on shorter routes around Europe.

Quarterly data from BMO, a major lender to the trucking industry, does not suggest significant financial pain among its clients.

Each new Ditat customer is paired with one support team member who stays with the account from the beginning and beyond.

Bridgestone is eyeing an ambitious new marketplace that would provide last-mile services and fleet solutions.

The acceleration of B2B payments has stressed travel & expense payment tracking, but Fintech solutions can help.

Using the economic realities test, an appellate court backed a lower-court ruling that a group of drivers were independent contractors, not employees.

The injunction that has kept California’s AB5 independent contractor law at bay since the end of 2019 has been formally lifted.

Three railroad unions plan to send their members a tentative labor agreement for ratification. However, there are still nine unions that have yet to strike a deal.

The benchmark DOE/EIA diesel price was up, but suddenly weaker natural gas has kept the futures price in check.

Federal regulators have appointed 16 members to an all-female advisory board in an effort to boost the ranks of women in trucking.

UPS’ peak surcharges will hit $6 to $7 per package for high-volume customers.

Truck safety advocates want federal regulators to reconsider a “fatally flawed” rule designed to prevent deaths and injuries in tractor-trailer crashes.

Outbound volumes in Allentown continue to rise at the start of the week, and Detroit levels are nearing a record since 2018.

NASA launch delayed; how LTL works; Yelp for carriers; Trevor Milton buys Nikola stock; animal attacks and more on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

Transport Canada says it is initiating the first steps toward implementing a version of positive train control in the country.

In partnership with India’s JioMart, Meta is giving WhatsApp users the ability to order directly through the messaging platform.

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics announces its fourth acquisition in the past year.

UPS is buying eight more 767 cargo jets from Boeing.

Logistics real estate company Link Logistics is investing in carbon offsetting for its operational emissions.

Transportation insurance broker Reliance Partners announces a recapitalization with plans to reach $1 billion in written premiums in the next three years.

Growing hemp has been legal since 2018, but transporting it across state lines remains a risky proposition for trucking.

Expedite All, which launched on Monday, plans to consolidate smaller carriers onto its platform and give shippers options for expedited freight moves, which could lower prices 10%, the company says.

The recovery of two sunken tugs in Tasmania was a big logistics and engineering undertaking.

This week in Borderlands: Kansas City Southern set to build second rail bridge in Laredo; Texas firm constructing a truck and trailer parking facility near Houston; Omni Logistics opens new shipping hub in Dallas; and New Mexico port expanding with help from federal grant.

Nikola founder Trevor Milton bought 3 million shares of electric truck company stock weeks before his criminal trial is to start.

FedEx unit drops Spencer Patton’s companies from its contractor network, says it has contingency plans to pick up the slack.

This week: Schneider driver becomes first woman to receive veteran Ride of Pride truck, FedEx celebrates 10th anniversary of Purple Eagle program and WIT releases latest diversity index report.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issues a temporary exemption to hours-of-service rules for the states affected by BP’s refinery shutdown.

AskWaves takes a look at managed transportation services in the less-than-truckload market.

FedEx Ground’s lawsuit alleges Spencer Patton is creating a contrived crisis with contractors to benefit one of his businesses, Route Consultant.

Outbound volumes in Ontario are up after a 12.3% drop earlier this month but decline in the formerly greener pastures of South Carolina.

Contract and spot rates continue their downward trend despite volume levels and rejection rates flattening out…

Everybody thought the legal wrangling over California’s AB5 was done, but a court hearing Monday says otherwise.

Every wholesaler, distributor and retailer knows that data from their POS system is non-standardized, often times rendering the data you can collect from it useless or, at best, unreliable. Wouldn’t […]

NASA is headed to the moon on Monday but first they make a stop on WTT to give us all the details before launch

The podcast covers three topics: truck insurance, its impact from AB5 and what links prices for natural gas and diesel to the removal of sulfur from fuel.

Consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) and retailers are among the largest intermodal shippers. Today’s edition of The Stockout highlights data relevant for shippers that utilize rail intermodal or are looking […]

While freight demand is still present, the industry is seeing a softening.

Lego bricks can help explain a lot of things, including a very messy supply chain. Penske Truck Leasing’s Paul Rosa got creative .

The Inflation Reduction Act has been signed into law. What do its climate measures mean for supply chains?

Andy Welch pays tribute to Keith Avery, who along with three Welch brothers — Mike, John and Jim — founded Express-1.

Inflation, a pandemic and changing consumer behavior have culminated in dramatically different Q2 results across the e-commerce industry.

WTT goes on cloud innovation deep dive with AWS and StratusGrid

Rapidly growing e-commerce firm Cart.com expanded its fulfillment centers in Tennessee, Ohio, Utah and North Texas.

A bill that would make thefts of private-sector parcel deliveries a felony is the latest step in efforts to curb a growing problem.

Hyliion Holdings is buying generator technology from General Electric Co. that can make electricity from a variety of mixed fuels.

AELF FlightServices, a provider of operating leases, is chasing the cargo market with an order for its first 767 conversion aircraft.

Ambassador Esteban Moctezuma says that border-crossing expansions in Texas and Mexico are critical to North American trade.

Imported twenty-foot equivalent units cleared through customs to the Port of New York and New Jersey fell last week, and truckload volumes in St. Louis are climbing this week.

Just two supertankers have been ordered in the past 14 months, raising the risk of a future shortfall in oil transport capacity.

The Utah Inland Port Authority, short-line operator TNW Corp. and the Surface Transportation Board have announced appointments and promotions.

Using data to protect trucking companies.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday blew the whistle on the planned acquisition of a large container manufacturer by a Chinese company.

Plug Power will supply Amazon with 10,950 tons of green hydrogen annually for transportation and building operations starting in 2025.

When it comes to drone delivery, some states are better prepared than others. Here are all of them ranked.

The Postal Service is leaning on freight brokers as it cuts costs and chases efficiency. That’s bad news for long-time contractors.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada wants the country’s major railways to install enhanced train-control technology similar to positive train control in the U.S.

Grocery app Instacart is now delivering big and bulky items from Big Lots, Staples, Office Depot and more.

Sanctions have put two of Volga-Dnepr’s three cargo airlines out of action. The Russian airline is grasping for lifelines.

Uber Freight and others announced LightningPay last fall, and the product’s philosophy and practices were presented at a key industry conference in Atlanta.

A severe recession deserves some mindshare among scenarios that could play out in coming months, ACT Research economist Jim Meil says.

Locus’ autonomous mobile robots work collaboratively with humans to improve piece-handling productivity.

Edmonton International Airport is organizing itself as an air hub for e-commerce shipments.

FreightWaves asks experts how cooking oil goes from frying food to fueling vehicles and answers the question: Does it smell like french fries?

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics announced the acquisition of Oakland, California-based R&A Trucking.

The Russia-Ukraine war caused demand for LNG to surge. Owners of LNG carriers are in prime position to profit this winter.

Colonial Freight Systems confirms it will shutdown operations at the end of the month.

Outbound volumes are their highest on record in Las Vegas, but Austin, Texas, sees an even larger increase.

Railroad union representatives have been reticent publicly about how they plan to proceed with contract talks following last week’s recommendations from an independent board.

A trucker supported charity that returns lost pets; how to market your freight company; truckers angry with Supreme Court; how to become a trucker, more on demand on WTT

In order to be proactive in both the planning stage and throughout the year, shippers need access to accurate, digestible and up-to-date data.

A severe typhoon is headed for the South China region, forcing airlines and ports to take precautions and adjust schedules.

Burgeoning logistics tech firm EasyPost on Wednesday announced a last-mile delivery partnership with Swyft.

PS Logistics has acquired transportation assets from Phoenix Leasing of Tennessee and its sister company Colonial Freight Systems.

Phononic and Sortimo have combined forces to create a temperature-controlled Ford E-Transit upfit option for grocery last-mile delivery providers.

Trucking regulators will consider allowing hair drug test results to be reported into a federal drug clearinghouse — despite asserting a lack of authority.

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based U.S. Xpress is cutting another 5% of its corporate workforce in the trucking company’s second round of layoffs in three months.

New York City police have targeted overnight truck parking in a section of the city close to Kennedy Airport.

Dallas-area transportation companies are getting back to work after record-breaking rain and floods.

DHL Express announced Tuesday it has raised hourly wages by 15% to 18% for workers at its Cincinnati airport facility.

Reefer volumes in Northern California start to fall, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, shows signs of a headhaul market.

It’s not too late to take care of violations that could leave you sidelined. Be sure to conduct thorough pre- and post-trip inspections of your brakes, lights and tires.

Kodiak Robotics snagged a strategic investment and is developing an autonomous truck service project with Pilot Co.

Zhengzhou airport has completed a major expansion project to alleviate crowding at its cargo facilities and allow for significant growth.