Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Reject Index – Atlanta, Dallas SONAR: OTRI.ATL, OTRI.DAL Just when shippers and freight brokers thought the U.S. freight market was easing, capacity tightened to record levels in two of the nation’s largest freight centers: Atlanta and Dallas.…
The Log Book is a weekly rundown of human-interest stories related to the transportation industry. This week: TA’s Register Round Up Campaign begins, Chicago-based Loadsmart gives back to the community and ParkMyFleet’s solar car race is thwarted by a breakdown.…
Hurricane Elsa is cruising across the Caribbean, centered just 100 miles southeast of the Dominican Republic as of 8 a.m. ET Saturday. Elsa’s sustained winds were at 75 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane, and it’s heading to the…
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what’s happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, we look at a potential rules revision thanks to Daimler, more trouble for Lordstown Motors and more. The High Five 1. Thanks to…
At first blush, Section 202 of postal reform legislation currently moving through the U.S. House and Senate is innocuous to the point of irrelevance. The language requires the U.S. Postal Service to maintain an “integrated delivery network of mail and…
Southwest Louisiana’s Chennault International Airport is a large aviation property. The former Air Force base has a 2-mile-long runway, newly refurbished parallel taxiway and 60 acres of concrete tarmac. But when it comes to commercial aircraft activity, it’s puny. The…
If the story of shipping’s first half were published as fiction, a critic might say: “Wildly inventive but highly implausible. Way too over-the-top. Too cluttered. Remember, less is more!” And yet it’s all true. Here’s a look back at the…
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The Justice Department is probing financially troubled Lordstown Motors Corp., according to several media reports Friday. It is the latest blow to the company that plans to begin building battery-powered commercial pickup trucks this fall at a former General Motors…
On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about freight going virtual as they look at the cloud data driving fleets on air, land, and sea. Plus, House Democrats succeed in boosting trucking insurance to $2 million; trucking jobs…
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