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Trucking Logistics
Trucking Logistics
Trucking news and detailed analysis of trucking companies across the United States from trucking industry leaders like Swift Transportation and Old Dominion Freight Line to smaller regional truckers plying various cross-border and domestic routes. JOC.com ranks the largest trucking companies each year and also provides rankings of the largest truckload and less-than-truckload carriers.
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News & Analysis
11 Jan 2019
For the first time in a decade, LTL operator YRC Worldwide enters contract talks without an existential threat to its survival looming.
11 Jan 2019
At least two ocean carriers will initiate US street-turn fees next month to reduce administrative costs for this measure; truckers and BCOs say it will increase supply chain costs.
11 Jan 2019
A host of technology providers in the North American surface transportation space have released tools to access previously hidden capacity.
10 Jan 2019
Trucking companies want Ontario to allow overseas recruitment of truck drivers; the union says raise wages.
10 Jan 2019
IANA believes its educational guide can become a standard textbook for the chassis industry.
09 Jan 2019
Truckers and shippers complain that it’s taken weeks to get containerized imports.
09 Jan 2019
With the US Securities and Exchange Commission closed, Roadrunner is looking for a run-around to push its rights offering and recovery plan forward.
09 Jan 2019
Widespread labor shortages affect not just trucking but all aspects of transportation and logistics.
08 Jan 2019
A space shortage from high tariff-threat-induced volume has prompted shippers and 3PLs to seek alternative, nearby container space.
07 Jan 2019
The solution to the US truck driver problem will require a proactive, engaged performance by shippers.
07 Jan 2019
A passel of newly finished and ongoing projects aim to smooth the trucking of cargo in the Northeast US.
07 Jan 2019
Excessive rail dwell times continue to be a problem.
04 Jan 2019
Even with a US recovery in its 10th year, the transportation and warehouse sectors continue to register strong monthly job growth.
04 Jan 2019
With competition for truck drivers strong, firms are deploying new tactics to recruit talent.
04 Jan 2019
A ‘perfect storm’ of factors combined so far this winter to create the LA-LB backlog.
03 Jan 2019
The extended gates, intended to clear a short-term logjam, come amid an ongoing debate among port stakeholders about whether the terminals should open for longer hours to improve cargo fluidity.
03 Jan 2019
Here are a few certainties shippers and their transportation providers can bank on for 2019.
02 Jan 2019
Mexico faces a wealth of uncertainty as it enters 2019, but it is unlikely to unravel the trade sector’s strength.
02 Jan 2019
More truck drivers are choosing to work for smaller carriers, and that’s not making it easier for shippers to source capacity. This is the second in a series of articles.
02 Jan 2019
The battle for truck drivers will determine who gets truck capacity in 2019 and at what price.
21 Dec 2018
With annual handling volume increasing substantially, Chittagong faces yard congestion throughout the year.
20 Dec 2018
Can Mexico’s highways, railways, and related systems improve to handle higher trade volumes?
20 Dec 2018
As the initial experience indicates, North American port extended gates adoption, despite increasing container volume and truck congestion, is coming in fits and starts.
20 Dec 2018
A reservation system is one tool to improve fluidity, according to port officials, but the trucking community believes restricting access is a step in the wrong direction.
19 Dec 2018
The Los Angeles and Long Beach executive directors promised shippers and truckers they would deliver several action items within six months to relieve mounting congestion.
19 Dec 2018
The Phoenix-based company broke into the top 10 of North American brokers in 2018.
18 Dec 2018
“The fact that tonnage rose in November after a strong October is impressive,” Bob Costello, ATA chief economist, said.
17 Dec 2018
Providers such as Advent and GE Transportation are each constructing a system of systems at North American ports.
17 Dec 2018
US shippers took a similar hit when the US electronic logging device (ELD) mandate disrupted truck capacity in inter-city lanes last December.
17 Dec 2018
The Manitoulin Group of Companies acquired the book of business of one company and partnered with its parent company to broaden its coverage in northwest Canada.
17 Dec 2018
There is good reason to consider ditching the transactional model.
14 Dec 2018
US freight volumes are still growing. Equally significant, the international political climate that affected imports, exports, and trade flows in 2018 could do so again in 2019.
14 Dec 2018
The lawsuit stems from a long-running dispute and investigation into reweighing of military freight.
14 Dec 2018
One shipping-trade group representing foreign carriers in trade to/from India, questioned why authorities went live with the revamped, single window system without an adequate trial-run process.
14 Dec 2018
“We use the data to make efficiencies happen,” Weston LaBar, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, told the JOC Port Performance North America Conference this week in Newark, New Jersey.
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