Freight

Every company wants to grow. But for most companies, that growth usually comes at the price of profitability. That has long been the case for Uber, which until this year had never posted an adjusted profit despite securing tens of billions of dollars in venture capital. But it appears that Uber (...

A strong freight market and manufacturer backlogs have ignited demand for leased equipment from fleets far surpassing supply. This extraordinary demand could continue to outstrip supply well into 2022, especially for intermodal chassis and trailers. As one of the largest- and fastest-growing...

Analysts, industry insiders and some of Central Freight Lines' executives and truck drivers liken the LTL carrier's demise to a "five-year death spiral" after the company lost a major customer, then acquired two failing companies. The end of the 96-year-old company was the biggest shutdown in...

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Shipments stepped higher again in November with freight expenditures continuing to surge, according to a Tuesday report from Cass Information Systems. The Cass Freight Index recorded a 4.5% year-over-year increase in shipments, up 2.6% from October seasonally adjusted. The expenditures component...

Fourteen Republican U.S. senators have asked President Joe Biden to exempt Canadian truck drivers who cross the U.S.-Canada border from a fast-approaching vaccine mandate for foreign essential workers in January, saying the requirement will disrupt the North American supply chain. The letter, led...

Chicago-based third-party logistics provider Redwood Logistics has been sold by private equity firm CI Capital Partners to AEA Investors. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. AEA Investors is an investment firm with over $15 billion in assets under management and a 50-plus-...

Across the globe, companies are under increasing pressure to pursue social responsibility and clean energy initiatives. All the upheaval that came along with 2020 only accelerated this trend. The COVID-19 pandemic, California wildfires, Midwestern floods, and movements for racial justice gave...

November volumes at the Port of Virginia in Norfolk were at an all-time monthly record, according to the Virginia Port Authority. Year-over-year volumes were nearly 4% higher, totaling 290,759 twenty-foot equivalent units. However, November's volumes were down nearly 9% from October totals, which...

Effective Jan. 24, FedEx Corp. will begin levying delivery surcharges on harder-to-process shipments based on the distance they travel, joining rival UPS Inc. in imposing another layer of costly fees on customers whose parcels require some form of special handling. FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and UPS (NYSE...

After FreightWaves broke the news late Saturday that less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines planned to cease operations on Monday after 96 years, other LTL carriers have stepped up recruiting efforts over the past few days to scoop up more than 2,100 drivers and employees who will lose...

In a landmark certification for the company, drone delivery provider Flytrex on Tuesday announced that it had received FAA approval for drone deliveries with a range of up to 1 nautical mile in North Carolina, expanding its reach to approximately 10,000 households in the state. As part of the...

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On Nov. 19, TCA voiced its public support for Sen. Roger Wicker's (R-MS) new legislation, which makes an effort to identify and reduce the issues in the U.S. supply chain. The Facilitating Relief for Efficient Intermodal Gateways to Handle Transportation (FREIGHT) Act, S. 3262, would improve the...

Digital freight ecosystem Transflo announced Tuesday that the growth-focused private equity firm Bregal Sagemount has made a new minority equity investment in the company, joining equity investor True Wind Capital and minority investor Carousel Capital to continue building solutions to eliminate...