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There is much truth in that adage, “If you bought it, a truck brought it.” Ships and planes transport products around the world, but the last stage in the journey to their final destination is frequently via truck. This is true not only of products reaching store shelves, but the transportation of raw materials to factories at the start of the manufacturing process. In the U.S alone, more than 80 percent of all communities rely on trucks for the delivery of food, fuel, clothing and medicine.
US Trucking Sector Faces Continued Challenges Amid Q1 Slump in Volume and Spending
As the US trucking market continues to grapple with uncertainty, the latest data from US Bank’s Freight Payment Index for… Read More
NAFTA as a National Security Priority
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) fundamentally changed the framework of cooperation between the United States and Mexico. During… Read More
Four Reasons Why 3PL Brokerage Market Continues to Grow
According to the most recent market results and trends report from Armstrong & Associates, 2016 domestic transportation management increased 5.3… Read More
US-NAFTA Trade Heads Higher
There may be stress associated with the future of NAFTA in North American capitals, but in the commercial arena trade… Read More
A Win-Win: Transparency Along The Entire Supply Chain
Whether by ship, airplane, train or truck – conveying goods around the world generally involves at least two different modes… Read More
“Product Freight” is Different Than “People Freight”
If your email box is anything like mine it is getting populated with three to five emails a week from… Read More
US Freight Transportation Services Index Hit All-Time High in May
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry,… Read More
FTA: Brexit Talks Must Make Rapid Progress To Prevent Disaster
As the second round of Brexit talks got underway this week, the Freight Transport Association (FTA)—the UK’s largest transport trade… Read More
Transportation Contract Versus Spot Pricing: Which Wins?
A recent RFP assignment once again brought to focus the topic of spot rates versus contract rates and what it… Read More
Autonomous Trucks Could Transform Insurance
In February, Embark, a startup based in San Mateo, CA, announced a self-driving technology that would allow trucks to run… Read More
Port of Virginia Sets Fiscal-Year Record
The Port of Virginia handled 231,675 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in June, a new record for the month and a seven-percent… Read More
FMCSA Announces ELD Implementation National Tour
The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced yesterday its electronic logging device (ELD) implementation… Read More
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