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With IMO2020 just around the corner, FreightWaves Radio this weekend takes a look at how it might impact fuel markets. J. Scott Susich, the director of data analytics and advisory services at DTN, joined co-host John Kingston on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking for a discussion on how the regulation...

Good Day, On July 5, 1995 Jeff Bezos left his job at a hedge fund in New York, drove across the country and launched an online book selling business from his garage in a Seattle suburb. On the occasion of Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) 25th birthday, Inc. Magazine has put together a list of fun...

This weekend's Barron's cover story takes a look at whether the hot IPO market is a bubble. Other featured articles review Dividend Aristocrats on a roll and offer the results from a survey of tech CIOs. Also, the prospects for a pharmaceutical merger, a best-in-class cruise line operator...

More numbers have emerged on exactly how quickly Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) disruption of the transportation and logistics is proceeding. On Thursday, Rakuten Intelligence reported that in the months of March and April Amazon carried as much as 45 percent of its own shipments. Rakuten...

Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) entry into online freight matching is being met with skepticism and unease by much of the logistics industry, according to a market research report from the FreightWaves Freight Intel Group. The report, Amazon and the Logistics Industry, builds on the news...

For all its symbolism, FedEx Corp.'s (NYSE: FDX) June 7 announcement that it would not renew its U.S. air delivery contract with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was relatively small potatoes. The decision only affects $150 to $200 million in annual revenue for Memphis-based FedEx, whose fiscal year...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced on June 18 that it will lease 15 Boeing (NYSE: BA) 737-800 freighters from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the aircraft lending unit of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). The airplanes, which will operate in the U.S., will enter Amazon's fleet by 2021,...

It's the headhaul edition of WTT?!? and this week we're talking Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX), Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT), Oil, blockchain, and more. We've got Headlines, Big Deal/Little Deal w/ Emily, a focus on the Amazon/FedEx break up with our market experts who...

Good day, This week's "much sizzle but little steak" award goes to FedEx Corp.'s (NYSE: FDX). June 7 decision to drop Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) as a domestic air express customer. The media voraciously devoured the story because it had symbolic value and involved two high profile companies....

The U.S. transportation industry hasn't seen such a mutually agreeable divorce in years. To virtually no one's shock, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) continued late on June 7 its multi-year process of untethering from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announcing it would not renew Seattle-based Amazon's U....

In a move not entirely expected but hardly surprising, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) said Friday that it will not renew its contract for its FedEx Express air and international unit to handle Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) U.S. air delivery business. The announcement does not affect Amazon's...

Today on FreightWaves NOW, we are talking tech with two tech nerds. Ken Smith talks dirty data, and what it takes to clean it up. Lincoln Duff talks about Amazon.com, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new drone technology and what it means for last-mile delivery.

Add Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR) to the growing list of companies seeing the pain from excess truck capacity and lower demand. The freight broker announced that there is risk to the bottom-end of the earnings guidance range for the second quarter of 2019 that it issued at the end of April. The...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Wednesday unveiled a "hybrid" design for its autonomous delivery drones that the company said will enable the machine to more easily transition between a helicopter-like vertical mode for take-off, to an airplane mode while in transit, and then back to the...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shareholders on May 22 voted against a climate change proposal backed by the e-retailer's own employees as well as activist investors. The proposal had called on the e-giant to describe how it is reducing fossil fuel use. It drew support from more than 7,600...