U.S. House Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., is urging the Department of Transportation to consider further regulation of freight trains carrying crude oil. Beutler earlier this week sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, Federal Railroad Administrator Sara Feinberg and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator Marie Therese Dominguez asking DOT to study […]
For shippers, carriers, brokerages and really all other industry stakeholders that have not given much thought to the possibility of Uber becoming a truckload carrier, it appears it may be time to change that mindset.
The third-party logistics industry has been growing two to three times faster than GDP, totaling about $157 billion per year, according to Robert Voltmann, president and CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association.
News that the 20,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) plan to meet again in early November should be welcomed by West Coast shippers who can recall cargo slowdowns that occurred over a nine-month period before being settled in the contract agreement of February 2015.
Trucking companies that regularly hauled containers for Hanjin Shipping may end up losing tens of thousands of dollars as Hanjin’s bankruptcy unfolds unless they can get beneficial cargo owners to pay for the shipments they carried from the port of entry to the customers’ warehouses. (This article requires registration at the Journal of Commerce. To […]
As the West Coast feels ripple effects from the bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co., nationally the number of load on the spot truckload freight market fell 5% during the week ending Sept. 24 compared to the week before as truck capacity increased 3%, according to DAT Solutions, its network of load boards.
Logistics has changed drastically. What was once called “physical distribution management” is now just as digital as physical, and the rapid growth of e-commerce, coupled with mobile technology, is pushing the limits of omnichannel supply chains. (This article requires registration at the Journal of Commerce. To access, please click on the above link.)
By one measure, truck tonnage soared in August – but did it really? The American Trucking Associations For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index jumped 5.7 percent from July to August, following a 2.1 percent decline in July. Year-over-year, the index was up 5.9 percent in August, compared with a 0.2 percent annualized increase in July. (This article […]
A concept van Mercedes-Benz showed at the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show offers a glimpse at how last-mile deliveries could be made in the future. The Vision Van comes complete with roof-mounted drones, which grab parcels through a slot in the roof and then delivery them to docking stations.
Shippers are being urged to have a good look at the financial situation of carriers before committing their cargo, but that is going to be a complicated procedure once the new alliances are in operation from April 2017. Even if a shipper selects a healthy carrier, few members of those three alliances – 2M, Ocean […]
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