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Amazon continued to speed up delivery service and make improvements to its fulfillment network during the second quarter, executives said in conjunction with the release of financial results on Thursday. …
Covenant Logistics stock plunged Thursday on an earnings report that had little in it that reflected the strengthening truckload market. It was clear from the opening remarks on the company’s …
Gains from equipment sales allowed truckload carrier Heartland Express to return to profitability in the second quarter. Heartland (NASDAQ: HTLD) reported net income of $10.6 million, or 14 cents per …
One of autonomous trucking’s most convincing commercial proof points isn’t running down an interstate. It’s hauling frac sand along a 42-mile conveyor in the Permian Basin. Atlas Energy Solutions (NYSE: …
Thursday was a busy day for companies developing automated truck loading and unloading technology. FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) announced it is scaling up use of a specialized robot for loading …
Multimodal transportation provider Schneider National handily beat second-quarter expectations and raised its full-year earnings outlook. It said a capacity constrained truckload market is “only in the early stages of rate …
California Highway Patrol investigators recovered more than $500,000 in stolen merchandise from a discount retail store in Rialto. The recovery followed a July 28 search warrant. CHP linked the business …
Law enforcement officers in South Carolina and North Carolina recovered 13 semi-trucks, three trailers and two motor vehicles worth more than $1 million. The recovery came during an ongoing Florence …
Every large fleet chasing AI eventually runs into the same fork in the road: buy a partner solution or build the technology in-house. Hirschbach Motor Lines picked a partner, and …
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Freedom Haulers, describing it as a patriotic hiring campaign to move veterans into trucking careers. The Department of Transportation leads it, with contributions …
Summary View Transcript Covenant is celebrating its 40th year in 2026, having been founded by David Parker in 1986. Wimberly noted the company spent its first 30 years as a …
Summary View Transcript Kavlinar said he caught a freight market update delivered earlier in the day by FreightWaves SONAR’s head of Freight Market Intelligence and found himself largely in agreement …
Summary View Transcript Riley also flagged an upcoming RXO quarterly state-of-industry webinar scheduled for August 25, to be led by Chief Strategy Officer Jared Weisfeld and Corey Klusia. The session …
Summary View Transcript On the driver supply side, Hadley highlighted an internal program called dock-to-driver, in which high-performing dock workers are sponsored through CDL training at Saia break terminals at …
Summary View Transcript Beyond market dynamics, McCray framed Univar’s logistics operation as a full multimodal platform — encompassing air freight, river barges, ocean vessels, LTL, rail, a fleet of 3,500 …
They Watched the Family Business Get Rolled Up. Then They Built the Version They Wanted to Work For.
In 1997, if a fleet needed a repair, the truck went to a shop. That was the entire menu. That was the year Bob Dickinson started what became Dickinson Fleet …
United Parcel Service continues to invest in winning and retaining small-and-medium businesses, a key market constituency it has targeted over two years as a profit center as it deemphasizes low-margin, …
There won’t be a new trial for Vanessa Motta, the New Orleans attorney convicted in the Louisiana staged accident scam. But next month there will be a criminal trial for …
CPKC set a second-quarter revenue record and saw its operating income rise on the strength of grain, automotive, and energy-related shipments. “The performance, if you look at it, reflects the …
Your Freight Funnel Is Leaking Margin; What Your Reports Won’t Show Most fleets run on speed, not structure: whoever’s fastest at the keyboard wins the load, regardless of what it …
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia’s shares were off 12% in midday trading on Thursday following a better-than-expected second-quarter report that was muted by management’s softer third-quarter margin outlook. The company has made …
Chips to ships: Nvidia plans new shipbuilding investment with Kawasaki Can the world’s newest technology give a boost to one of transportation’s oldest? A plan by leading Asia companies wants …
It did not take long on the C.H. Robinson second quarter earnings call with analysts late Wednesday for the subject to switch away from a strong financial performance in the …
Terminal, a Toronto-based telematics data startup, has raised $20 million in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures, the company announced Wednesday. Intact Private Capital and Penske joined as new …
Is pause in new ship orders by South Korean flag carrier a warning? South Korea’s flag carrier is dramatically shifting course on new vessel orders in a move that could …
Freight Hero, a Durham, North Carolina, startup that runs freight brokers’ back-office operations outright, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Field Ventures. Flybridge Capital, Tip Top …
XPO blew past analysts’ expectations for the second quarter. A better freight mix and numerous AI-fueled efficiency initiatives produced record operating results in its less-than-truckload unit. XPO (NYSE: XPO) reported …
Summary View Transcript On autonomous and drone delivery, Stein was measured. He said drones will eventually create meaningful cost advantages — citing prescription drop-offs as one near-term use case — …
Summary View Transcript On the broader freight market, Connolly cited carrier vetting and litigation risk as mounting concerns, noting that the average tenure of a transportation manager at a shipper …
Summary View Transcript Looking ahead 12 to 18 months, McCaffrey was measured. He said regulatory pressure will continue to push capacity exits, and that any volume spike in that tightening …
Summary View Transcript Speaker 1 [0:00] It’s the weekend after the biggest ever nuclear judgment against an operating transportation company, the $604 million nuclear judgment that involves C.H. Robinson. Now, …
Summary View Transcript For mid-sized and smaller brokers, the implications extend beyond the dollar figure. Kingston pointed out that the legal costs alone for a trial of this magnitude can …
Summary View Transcript Labor availability adds another layer of uncertainty. Regulatory enforcement targeting non-domiciled CDL drivers — a group that has historically filled straight-truck and box-truck roles attractive to last-mile …
Summary View Transcript On the industrial side, Norfolk Southern said new plant openings and expansions across its network are running at double last year’s pace, while CSX cited data center …
Summary View Transcript The Surface Transportation Board will have final authority over the merger, and Tonsiger expressed confidence in the STB’s process, noting that — unlike regulatory reviews in other …
Summary View Transcript Intermodal remained a minor contributor — Maiden estimated roughly 5% of revenue — and drew less analytical focus than truckload or LTL, where the carrier is allocating …
Summary View Transcript Speaker 1 [0:08] Good morning. I’m going to fill in for Craig today with our Sonar update, and the story is really about earnings and the implications …
Summary View Transcript Fellin was also asked about electric vehicles in long-haul trucking. He said battery-electric trucks are not ready for high-utilization, long-haul applications and that meaningful adoption remains “quite …
Summary View Transcript The data center market itself is projected to grow from roughly $83 billion currently to approximately $150 billion over the next five years, according to figures Azell …
Summary View Transcript On the carrier side, the tight driver market is constraining capacity expansion and supporting rates. Veteran drivers at well-run fleets typically receive new equipment first, with one …
Summary View Transcript On the Canadian railroad front, CPKC was set to report earnings later in the day, while CN has already signaled it believes U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade tensions will resolve …
Summary View Transcript Separately, Nussbaum said the company developed an in-house bid-pricing tool called BidRight, originally built for internal use by five company developers. The software consolidates shipper RFP data, …
Summary View Transcript Speaker 1 [0:06] All right. All right, for today’s Donor Update, I want to talk about a couple of things. First, I want to talk about spot …
Summary View Transcript Looking further out, Hines said TOP is a first step toward regional pooling of trailer assets, similar to how chassis pools operate in intermodal . Under that …
Management at LTL carrier Old Dominion Freight Lines has said frequently that their goal is to get the company back to a sub-70% operating ratio (OR), where it was for …
The first bullet point in the earnings report of C.H. Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW) was that the 3PL hit its mid-cycle operating margin targets “while the freight market is still in …
Rail traffic totaled 527,162 carloads and intermodal units on U.S. lines, up 2.5% from a year ago, for the week ending July 25, the Association of American Railroads reported. Commodities …
Vinted, one of Europe’s largest marketplaces for buying and selling pre-owned items between private individuals, will direct customers in Germany to ship or exchange goods through DHL Group’s (XETRA: DHL) …
Article brought to you by Intelligent Audit When FreightWaves launched the AI Excellence in Supply Chain Awards, the goal was to cut through the noise of an industry where “AI” …
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