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Tyson Foods was right –– food supply chains are breaking. In many grocery stores, the shelves are as bare as they were during the early pandemic stockpiling frenzy. At the same time, world food prices hit a 10-year high in October, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization's food price...

FreightCar America expects railcar orders to grow as the year moves into 2022 amid pent-up demand pressures to purchase new railcars, executives said during the company's third-quarter 2021 earnings call on Monday. This demand release follows a third quarter in which customers seemed to halt their...

Trailer manufacturers are tapping the brakes as the traditional order season opens amid uncertainty over parts availability and volatile commodity prices, which are being added to the invoices for new trailers when they are produced. "We have implemented pass-through commodity pricing [for 2022]...

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Truckers will face another day of high winds in the Plains and northern Rockies. There are multiple semi-trucks blown over outside of Browning right now. As we head into tonight and tomorrow morning, the wind is going to be getting even stronger, so please use extreme caution if you are...

U.S. consumers who utilize buy-online, pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) services grew exponentially in 2020. According to research from Business Insider, U.S. shoppers spent $72.46 billion on items purchased using BOPIS in 2020 — a 106.9% increase over 2019. The same report noted that seven retailers —...

A lack of transportation capacity continued to weigh on freight shipments in October. The shortfall in supply to meet demand led to another significant jump in costs during the month, according to a Monday report from Cass Information Systems. The shipments component of The Cass Freight Index...

AB5 will be kept out of California's trucking sector for at least the foreseeable future. The U.S. Supreme Court Monday requested that the U.S. solicitor general, which represents the U.S. government before the high court, weigh in on the case of the California Trucking Association (CTA) versus...

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Nearly seven of 10 automobile crashes occur within 10 miles of home, according to insurance industry statistics. It's apparently true even for autonomous trucks. An otherwise uneventful ride in TuSimple's (NASDAQ: TSP) high autonomy-equipped International LT on a sunny Wednesday...

DoorDash has owned headlines this week. The food delivery giant first made a splash when it reported Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which were accompanied by the news of an international expansion with the company's $8.1 billion acquisition of Finnish food delivery platform Wolt, causing the stock to pop...

This week at FreightWaves' F3 Virtual Experience, Convoy is promoting the hashtag #NoEmptyMiles. While the reduction of empty miles is a common topic of conversation for Convoy, Head of Sustainability Jennifer Wong doesn't feel like the message is ever emphasized enough.  "It's such a win-win-...

Thirty. That's the number of acquisitions food tech unicorn GrubMarket has completed since the beginning of 2019, and the company is only picking up the pace. One-third of those acquisitions have taken place since June of this year, an incredible number that's growing larger by the month. That...

This week, Daimler Truck laid out forward plans ahead of trading in December as a stand-alone truck maker; the only publicly traded trailer maker renamed, rebranded, and reorganized; Proterra pushed further into the battery supply business; and Kodiak Robotics maintains it will go it alone in...

Beyond Meat sell-off further ignites debate about demand for plant-based protein. From my perspective, Beyond Meat's (NASDAQ: BYND) earnings and the fallout have been the most interesting CPG-related news this week. The recent returns for shareholders have been ugly — down 20% in the past week and...