Memorial Day

This look at the past week in images features a container crane collapse, Alaska snow and a decorated semi trailer.

Vietnam veteran and trucker Alvin Garrard took the trip of a lifetime as he hauled a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that bears the names of more than 58,000 U.S. service members, including some of his friends.

These are a few of the most devastating Memorial Day weekend storms that many Americans would like to forget.

Americans are hitting the road on the first major long-weekend
observance since COVID-19 vaccines became widely available.

Capacity normally tightens into the holiday weekend, but this Memorial Day is nothing like the previous years.

On this special Memorial Day weekend edition of What The Truck?!? we have all the latest news in FreightTech, supply chain, and trucking – including a focus on Craig Fuller’s state of the industry report, Earnings Over/Under, On The Radar, Fast Paced Forecast, and some hot tips on how to spend your holiday weekend. All this and more on WTT?!? Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player choice and never EVER miss an episode. No paywalls, no borders.

Holidays have a huge impact on the freight markets, with drivers going off-duty and altering their work schedules. In this chart of the week, we examined how different holidays impacted available capacity.