Congress received an on-the-ground report from an industrial shipper on how rapid price increases for goods and services can be traced directly to bottlenecks in the supply chain. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday, William Taylor, CEO of…
Yesterday’s FreightWaves article was FreightWaves Classics: Aviation begins; air cargo follows quickly (Part 1). In Part 2, the article continues with the post-World War II era. Post-World War II The International Air Traffic Association was founded in 1919, the year…
The underlying technologies that are fueling the urban air mobility (UAM) sector are still in their infancy in many cases, but they will be the base upon which the future movement of people and goods depend. The ability of UAM…
This week’s DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 70 (Carriers) Last week’s DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 75 (Carriers) Three-month DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 75 (Carriers) The DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics…
As the pace car pulls into pit road and the chief starter waves their green flags this Sunday, NASCAR’s nationwide viewers will watch James Davison take off in the newly sponsored No. 15 vehicle highlighting real-time visibility provider project44 and…
This week, we’re playing back what some participants in the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit had to say about the sector’s future, chronicling the growth in Nikola’s dealer network and checking out a very cool new Lego ruck. Summit voices…
Hundreds of trucking companies had been allegedly defrauded in an elaborate scheme utilizing a controversial practice called double brokering. After months of investigating, reporter Clarissa Hawes got a tip that led to a series of bizarre phone calls with the…
It’s not just a big deal in terms of dollars. The acquisition of LTL carrier AAA Cooper by Knight-Swift (NYSE: KNX) is radical in that it joins an LTL carrier with a truckload carrier, one of the biggest. The two…
Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting trucking, transportation and weather. This week features a Georgia overpass dislodged by a hopper, big rigs that wrecked during a New Mexico dust storm…
The $700 million fee that Kansas City Southern paid to terminate its merger agreement with Canadian Pacific slashed KCS’ income for the second quarter. KCS (NYSE: KSU) folded the fee into its operating expenses, which became $1.18 billion for the…
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