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FMCSA issues long-awaited final hours-of-service rule
May 14, 2020
FMCSA Acting Administrator Jim Mullen explained that this ruling is the result of listening to all industry stakeholders, including the motor carrier industry, truckers, safety advocates, law enforcement, and state partners.
COVID-19 sends ripples through top public LTL carriers in first quarter
May 13, 2020
The first economic shock waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have started to wash across the first quarter earnings reports of the leading publicly held less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, with more bad news coming later in the year.
What Does A Coronavirus Pandemic Recovery Look Like For The Trucking Industry?
May 1, 2020
Getting a perspective on how the coronavirus pandemic may affect freight markets in both the short term and long term.
With help from Convoy, Encore Glass is on the right road to efficiency
April 29, 2020
Realizing changes needed to be made to streamline its freight tendering processes, Encore Glass began looking into other options. The majority of the options did not peak his interest, in that they were, what he called, largely impersonal and static, to a large degree. But that changed after a 2019 meeting between Encore and Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy and its co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis.
COVID-19 weighs heavily on Q1 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index
April 23, 2020
The report’s first quarter National Shipment Index—at 124.3 (2011=110.1) dropped 1.8% compared to the fourth quarter and was up 3.8% annually. First quarter spend—at 188.1 (2011=110.1)—fell 3.7% compared to the fourth quarter, following a 4% sequential decline from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2019, and it was down 2.5% annually.
project44 rolls out upgrades to its Network Management Center offering
April 22, 2020
The NMC, which project44 officials said is the sole application in the logistics sector that can fully automate the North American and European truckload carrier onboarding process, was initially launched in 2017 in Europe and has been available for U.S.-based customers since late 2019.
ATA reports truck tonnage gains for March, but notes April is expected to be lower
April 21, 2020
The ATA’s advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for March—at 120.4 (2015=100)—saw a 1.2% increase. And the ATA’s not seasonally-adjusted (NSA) index, which represents the change in tonnage actually hauled by fleets before any seasonal adjustment and the metric ATA says fleets should benchmark their levels with, was 120.9 in March, topping February’s 108.2 reading by 11.2%.
Need a place to park that rig? Strategic partnership between TruckerTools and TruckPark can help
April 16, 2020
Trucker Tools and TruckPark have formed a strategic partnership to help truckers find safe parking facilities to help ease the national shortage for overnight rest areas for truck drivers.
CBRE research examines the expected need for additional cold storage space, due to COVID-19
April 15, 2020
Demand for United States-based industrial cold storage space is on the rise, due to coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it creates “massive disruption in the food industry,” according to research issued this week by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE.
FMCSA extends HOS COVID-19-related emergency declaration through May 15
April 9, 2020
The Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said yesterday that its national emergency declaration to provide hours-of-service regulatory relief to commercial vehicle drivers transporting emergency relief in response to the nationwide coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has been extended through May 15, 2020 or until the revocation of the Presidentially-declared COVID-19 national emergency.
2019 Top 50 Trucking Companies: Exceptional Execution Wins the Day
April 6, 2020
Operational excellence and management vision continue to drive the Top 50 trucking companies to better serve shippers and the nation.
FTR’s Vise says a trucking capacity crunch is not likely to be in the cards
April 2, 2020
The current state of trucking utilization and its subsequent impact on the broader carrier and transportation community can be viewed as something that is hard to forecast and is more assumption-based. That is the word from Avery Vise, Vice President of Trucking for freight transportation consultancy FTR during a recent Webcast the firm hosted, which focused on the impact of coronavirus, of COVID-19, on freight transportation operations.
FTR webcast takes deep dive into impact of COVID-19 on trucking, rail, and intermodal
March 27, 2020
On the trucking side, Avery Vise, FTR Vice President of Trucking, explained that, unlike other sectors of the economy, trucking has some near-term pressure, in the form of increased activity, saying it is actually surging. Looking at other modes, FTR Vice President of Rail and Intermodal Todd Tranausky said on the webcast that intermodal is going to be under more pressure than originally anticipated coming into 2020.
Trucker Tools launches initiatives to help brokers, truckers on the front lines of COVID-19 fight
March 27, 2020
Trucker Tools, a Reston, Va.-based company that provides trip planning, shipment visibility, predictive freight matching and automated booking solutions for the transportation industry, is helping drivers and brokers overcome the unprecedented challenges of sourcing, securing and managing transportation operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
February truck tonnage tallies are mixed, reports ATA
March 24, 2020
The ATA’s advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for February—at 119.1 (2015=100) headed up 1.8% from January to February, following a 0.3% decrease from January to February, which was downwardly revised from a 0.1% increase.