FreightWaves adds a full-time meteorologist to the analytics and editorial team. He will be developing tools and resources for market-participants to interpret and react to weather and climate related events.
FEMA has been working since early in the week to arrange resources to respond as soon as it is safe to do so in areas impacted by Hurricane Florence, and said at a media briefing today that it stands ready to help.
Schneider National has a Crisis Communications Team that is responsible for planning the safety of employees, equipment and customer freight during hurricanes and other adverse weather situations. Here is some of what they have learned.
JP and Chad are joined by FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller, EVP David Bradford, and Meteorologist Nick Austin for a special Hurricane Edition of What the Truck?!?
FEMA stands ready to address the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has now issued a “Regional Emergency Declaration” for 13 states and the District of Columbia as the southeast braces for the historic storm.
Hurricane season brings an increased risk to transportation energy in the United States, both from a supply and price perspective.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to 130 mph with higher gusts. Florence is still a category 4 hurricane, and some re-strengthening is expected.
JP and Chad sit down with Eric Adamchick, Meteorologist and Weather Analyst for RiskPulse, for a quick conversation about Hurricane Florence. This episode of What The Truck?!? was recorded live at Trimble’s in.sight 2018 conference and is sponsored by Trimble.
The orders suspend rules regarding everything from registration to length, width, weight, load and HOS.
One year later the memories of Harvey are still fresh. With the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season approaching the first real tropical threat to the U.S. mainland is targeting the central Gulf Coast with flooding rain and storm surge potential.
What is the correlation between freight costs and the loss of property value in coastal communities?
Good news for coastal residents, but bad news for carriers that made a lot of money on hurricanes last year: not much happening this year. Pretty much all key predictive variables, from sea surface temperatures to wind shear, suggest the current hurricane season will not hold a candle to last year’s hyperactive season in the Atlantic Basin, according to Riskpulse’s hurricane season mid-August update.
While carriers and shippers can’t change the weather, they can learn to work with it – or at least around it. That’s where the expertise of a company like AccuWeather comes in handy.
Now that hurricane season has officially begun, Riskpulse presented their 2018 hurricane season outlook, giving participants a front-row seat to their analysis of this year’s prospects.
ts best performance in year-over-year increases in revenue per hundredweight (excluding fuel surcharge) in years was not enough to turn a first quarter profit for YRC Worldwide.
A wet pattern continues in the middle to eastern sections of the country, making it difficult for carriers to manage surging spring volumes coming out of the south. This impacts all modes of transportation including the beleaguered rail lines.
First significant group of storms and tornadoes for 2018.
A weather bomb hit the East Coast over the past two days and it has left a mark that will take shippers several days from which to recover.
Riskpulse predicts a somewhat colder, wetter winter for the western and northwestern US; warmer, drier conditions should prevail in the southeast and eastern seaboard.
Riskpulse, the leader in providing weather risk analytics for supply chains, has issued a retrospective report discussing how they advised their customers during the historic 2017 hurricane season.
Winter is coming. The National Weather Service is call for several inches of snow to blanket Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of the Dakotas this weekend, with over 90% confidence.
Hurricane Nate came ashore late Saturday night and by this morning had been downgraded to tropical storm with winds of 45 mph gusting to 55 mph at times as it moves toward the north-northeast at more than 25 mph.
Tropical Storm Nate is expected to strengthen overnight and through the day tomorrow as it continues to track toward the Gulf Coast across warmer waters. As a result, the National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for Grand Isle, LA, to the Alabama/Florida border for Tropical Storm Nate. The storm is expected to make landfall late Saturday or early Sunday.
The National Hurricane Center is warning about potential weekend impacts from Tropical Storm Nate anywhere from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana. Assets in the Mobile, AL; Baton Rouge, LA; and New Orleans, LA, areas currently showing the most risk, according to supply chain risk analysis firm Riskpulse.
Just as the nation turned its attention away from tropical weather, another threat is now looming for the Gulf Coast and Florida this weekend. Tropical Depression Sixteen is official and on the radar of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and it has eyes for Louisiana and Florida this weekend.
While it appears the East Coast dodged a bullet with Hurricane Jose, the next 10 days look to be a busy time for transportation interests along the coast as Hurricane Maria’s track remains uncertain and there is still potential impacts from that storm early next week.
The East Coast could see two back-to-back hurricanes hit over the next ten days. With an already-steteched national supply-chain, it will test our logistics infrastructure.
As Hurricane Irma continues to move through the Southeast, some of its impacts are now being assessed, and they are likely to disrupt operations for many for days and weeks to come.
A natural disaster can rarely be called a benefit, but there are positives for the transportation industry and its investors from the double hit the nation took from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. From higher stock prices to higher rates, trucking may be poised to reap many benefits from the storms.
Hurricane Irma was already impacting Florida on Saturday afternoon with the storm forecast to come ashore Sunday morning. The track of the hurricane is now expected to take it through Florida and into Georgia, South Carolina and possibly Alabama and Tennessee by Wednesday.
Ports were closed and Florida highways were jammed with people on Friday fleeing Hurricane Irma, as the Category 4 storm approached the state.
Hurricane Irma has remained a Category 5 storm as it continues its path towards the U.S. A slight eastward shift of the projected path has not changed the danger for Florida from the storm, but it has brought South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia more in play for a possible direct hit.
As most of the nation turns its attention to Hurricane Irma, people in Texas continue to recover from the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey at the end of August. True to its nature, the trucking industry has been there to help.
The latest guidance on Hurricane Irma is suggesting that the storm is more likely than not to strike the east coast of Florida or the Southeast U.S., with effects first being felt on Sunday, according to supply chain risk analysis firm Riskpulse’s latest Watchtower Alert.
Over the past few days, we have received a large number of inbound requests asking for thoughts on Irma and what fleets can expect. Whenever a major hurricane strikes, logistics relief efforts follow a similar process.
Hurricane Irma intensified overnight and is now a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic on a possible course for the East Coast of the United States. According to Riskpulse, interests along the East Coast, particularly Florida, should be closely monitoring the storm for potential impacts by this weekend.
Just as the nation recovers from Hurricane Harvey, there is another tropical system brewing that has the potential to impact the U.S.
Harvey is the kerosene to accelerate the trends towards a major capacity crunch in the truckload industry. With as much as ten percent of capacity being impacted, combined with surpluss demand coming from relief and rebuilding- the truckload market capacity is expected to be super tight
As Texans come to grip with the impact of Harvey on their lives- we examine the impact of the storm on the freight markets. Harvey relief demand is expected to be enormous and will likely dwarf the truckloads sent to help in Katrina efforts.
Texas’ largest grocery store chain responds to disaster with a convoy of specially outfitted trucks and trailers to deliver relief food, medical supplies, and dry-goods.
One of the worst storms to hit the US ever. Heavy flooding expected. Shipments affected but major disruptions expected over the next few weeks.
As predicted, the remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey have reformed into a Tropical Depression in the Gulf of Mexico. According to supply chain risk analytics firm Riskpulse, it is now likely that Harvey will make landfall on the south-central Texas coastline, perhaps near Corpus Christi, as a hurricane.
In the Gulf of Mexico, storms can happen quickly. That is the case with the remnants of Tropical Storm Harvey, which are moving into the Gulf and could potentially threaten the coast of Texas later this week.
Google publishes solar eclipse traffic maps showing record congestion on highways along the eclipse route line. Drivers are starting to post photos of traffic congestion and even Nest gets in the spirit with messages about the eclipse on their thermostats.
The great eclipse of 2017 is less than 24 hours away. While we can’t control the traffic- we can talk about the weather. We have gone out to two sources to ensure you have the best view of the event: Accuweather and Riskpulse.
The great eclipse of 2017 is less than 24 hours away. While we can’t control the traffic- we can talk about the weather. We have gone out to two sources to ensure you have the best view of the event: Accuweather and Riskpulse.
In recent years, disruption to routes along the Gulf Coast and East Coast because of hurricanes – which can spread hundreds of miles wide and leave widespread flooding and infrastructure damage in their wake – has been minimal. That could change this hurricane season.
The nation is about to heat up starting this weekend, and that could drive more volatility to already rising spot rates for agricultural haulers and shippers.
The Northeast has exited a period of cloudy, rainy weather that has held down freight volumes into and out of the region. That is just one of the weather-related stories this week that have affected rates across the nation.
They say farm to fork, but without trucks, the farm never makes it to the stores, much less the fork. And that’s why ag haulers are so in tune with their shipping partners. When farmers suffer from crop delays for any reason – trucking is affected.
To highlight the impact weather can have on trucking, and to highlight their new partnership, TransFX, which is seeking to offer trucking freight futures contracts, and Riskpulse, a supply chain risk analytics firm, have produced an infographic that provides a few surprising facts about weather-related delays.
With weather delays costing the trucking industry as much as $3.5 billion yearly, the impact is enormous, especially on shipping rates. TransFX is seeking to offer trucking futures contracts to help brokers, carriers and shippers better manager their exposure to volatile rates. As part of that effort, it has tapped into the expertise of Riskpulse, a leading supply chain risk analytics firm.
For anyone in the trucking industry, there is one constant: change. Rates change. Customers change. Freight flows change. But why is there so much change? This graphic answers some of those questions.
Weather disruptions such as Winter Storm Stella that is dumping up to 2 feet of snow on the Northeast today can have a ripple effect throughout the supply chain, driving up rates as freight pickups and deliveries are delayed and cancelled.
For anyone involved in the movement of goods, weather plays a great unknown. It can cause delays and even cancelled orders, which means lost revenue. But one company is trying to help identify potential weather issues so vehicles can be safely rerouted.
