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The Teamsters has won a representation vote for a group of LTL drivers in Albany, New York, the first step in what traditionally has been a long road to actually getting a union into an XPO facility. The vote earlier this month was close, according to officials. Specific vote totals were not...

The current supply chain crisis is caused by an unprecedented demand for physical goods flowing through major chokepoints, combined with a lack of labor and a limited supply of transportation capacity. While global economic turbulence due to COVID is an immediate catalyst, the crisis has been...

With the third-quarter earnings season wrapped up, Todd Fowler of KeyBank joins Drilling Deep to answer the question: How did they do?  He shares his views on several companies, including Knight-Swift, Werner, and Marten in his discussion with host John Kingston. Also on the podcast, Kingston...

Cloud platform Orderful announced Friday it has recently closed a $19 million Series B funding round led by GLP Capital Partners with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Initialized Capital to help all supply chain actors gain visibility into their networks through electronic data...

President Biden's vaccine mandate has taken shape in the form of an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). On Nov. 4, 2021, following direction by the Biden administration, OSHA issued an ETS requiring employers with 100 or more...

The move toward sustainable aviation fuels gained momentum this week as cargo and passenger airline interests, in conjunction with the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, took more steps to meet the new goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The aviation sector accounts for 2....

On Friday, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Ally Logistics took a big step toward achieving its vision to "create the ultimate freight shipping experience" with the announcement that its application programming interface, CapacityNOW, is now available to all its shippers to receive real-time domestic...

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As the industry continues to work through the bottlenecks of a very chaotic supply chain, which is meaningfully starved of transportation capacity, the duration of the disruption remains up for debate. However, a consensus is forming that the current boom cycle could carry well into 2022. "...

CSX defended itself to the Surface Transportation Board over how it has handled service issues, saying that it is working with customers while also continuing to improve network fluidity. "We are committed to assisting our customers and supply chain partners in overcoming the current supply chain...

TreeHouse Foods, a major manufacturer of private-label food products, announced that its board is exploring strategic alternatives. Potential strategic actions include a possible sale of the company or the divestment of a significant portion of its less-profitable meal prep business in order to...

AI-powered robotics and supply chain automation company Berkshire Grey reported its first earnings as a publicly-traded company Thursday morning before the bell, revealing some early struggles for the business. While Berkshire Grey's revenue of $18.8 million in Q3 2021 was magnitudes greater than...

When you are a trailblazer, it can be difficult to quantify success. But for GXO Logistics, its first quarter earnings as a standalone company represented a good first step. But it is just that, a first step. "There is category creation taking place. There is nothing like this in the market today...

The California Division of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday it is expanding capacity to administer commercial driving tests by increasing weekend hours and shifting examiners from other parts of the state to Southern California, where more truckers are needed to pull containers from backlogged ports. ...

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