Averitt Express News & Resources
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LTL Update: Enter the post-Yellow world
March 1, 2024
The cessation of Yellow continues to have repercussions throughout the $58 billion LTL market. Now, a shuffling of the capacity equation is causing strategic changes, and shippers need to adapt to the new alignment of resources to find operational success.
Averitt heralds Middle Tenn.-based expansion initiatives
February 2, 2024
The company’s expansion in Nashville is part of an ongoing effort to invest in its facility infrastructure and demonstrate its commitment to its customers, its associates and its future, adding that Averitt wants to be on the leading edge when it comes to technology, equipment and facilities.
Averitt’s ‘State of the Supply Chain Survey’ presents an optimistic tone for 2024
January 25, 2024
The survey’s findings were based on feedback from more than 1,400 North American shippers across various sectors and was conducted late last year. Topics covered in the survey included measuring the use of and interest in various supply chain services compared to last year’s survey, if businesses are predicting an increase or decrease in shipments in 2024, how important a carrier’s sustainability program is to a shippers’ decision making, and identifying the biggest challenge with international shipments in 2024.
State of Less Than Truckload (LTL) 2023: Volumes down, yields up
March 12, 2023
The LTL market’s surprising profitability and ability to not only exist, but to become the most lucrative and well-managed niche of the overall $830 billion trucking industry, is astounding to even veteran leaders in the sector. How is this happening?
Top LTL executives see continuing upward rate pressure on shippers in ‘22
January 7, 2022
Top trucking executives say their relentless rise in costs for everything from new and used trucks to fuel and driver pay will cause them to continue to ask shippers to pay more for freight services in 2022. How much more? That depends on individual shipper demands, their freight characteristics, and how their tonnage fits into a carrier’s overall freight demand scheme.
Averitt Express announces the opening of a new Dallas-area DC and fulfillment center
May 26, 2021
Cookeville, Tenn.-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Averitt Express said this week that it has opened up a new 400,000 square-feet Dallas area-based distribution and fulfillment center for handling the flow and distribution of domestic and international freight and cargo in close proximity to its Grand Prairie, Texas service center.
Averitt Express opens up new service center in Greensboro, NC region
October 8, 2020
Averitt said that this new facility is less than 18 miles from downtown Greensboro and is comprised of a 46,0000 square-foot dock and 102 truck doors, in order to handle the flow and distribution of inbound and outbound freight. Averitt’s presence in Greensboro goes back to 1990, when it opened up its previous facility there.
Alliance Award Winner: Bargain Hunt partners for growth
May 5, 2020
Through a unique trucking partnership, the extreme discount retailer has streamlined its process, integrated new technology and cut the size of its fleet in half while serving more locations than ever—all while reducing the number of miles driven by 20%.
Motor Freight Trends: Time for creative thinking
April 24, 2020
While new technology has ushered in many improvements, analysts believe that old-fashioned ingenuity, building better relationships with carriers, and an increasing knowledge base of best practices may help shippers ride out the freight management challenges in the long term.