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On Nov. 3, Einride officially announced its entry into the U.S. market through a pilot program with GE Appliances in Kentucky. While the company's SAE Level 4 driverless Einride Pod has been running in Europe since 2019, the expansion into the U.S. is part of an aggressive push that company...

Don Newell and Scooter Sayers are longtime LTL industry experts and consultants. Although the stock prices of LTL companies have been soaring on Wall Street, Newell and Sayers join host John Kingston on Drilling Deep to talk about some underlying fundamental problems in the LTL sector that they...

Truck transportation jobs went up in November on a seasonally adjusted basis but declined on the less-watched not seasonally adjusted totals. With the overall economy adding just 210,000 jobs, significantly below forecasts, truck transportation jobs performed relatively well in adding 5,100 jobs...

It's that time of the year again when budgets, goals, analysis, and planning are high priorities for businesses. For marketers, it can feel like all of these things pile on at once and can become overwhelming really quickly.  On this episode of Cyberly, Blythe Brumleve welcomes her first repeat...

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Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires will retire on May 1, 2022, and EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Alan Shaw will take the helm, the company announced Thursday. "This is the right moment for a leadership transition," said Squires. "The company is in rock-solid position, I've accomplished what I set...

Digital freight management platform provider EKA Solutions announced Monday it has formed EKA Logistics Capital LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will provide working capital financing services to its carriers, brokers, and eventually its shippers. The financial program, set to begin in January...

Ashley Furniture confirmed to FreightWaves that it has entered into an agreement to acquire asset-based logistics provider Wilson Logistics. An affiliate of Ashley Distribution Services (ADS) inked the deal on Nov. 22. Terms of the financial transaction were not disclosed. The deal remains subject...

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Airline maintenance facilities across the globe are still weathering the fallout from reduced passenger travel at the pandemic's outset. For well over a year, until domestic passenger travel numbers returned to normal, a majority of airlines parked aircraft in the arid climates of states like...

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Continuing a string of wins for GXO Logistics, the company on Thursday announced it would open an e-commerce distribution center for MYXfitness, the at-home connected fitness brand under parent company The Beachbody Company, in Atlanta. The facility is an expansion of an existing agreement between...

Japan's Drone Fund III has made an undisclosed investment in Wingcopter, the company announced Wednesday. Drone Fund III is the third fund from Drone Fund, a venture capital company specializing in drone and air mobility-related startups. Wingcopter said the investment is the first for the fund in...

Jennifer pulled her 53-foot rig into the highway weigh station for what she assumed was the standard enforcement stop. While she had only been driving on her own for about six months, Jennifer had gone through a number of these routine checks. This one was different. The enforcement officer...

The Transportation Intermediaries Association's third-quarter report paints a picture of a 3PL industry that had a strong three months, whether it's a comparison to the second quarter of this year or the corresponding quarter of 2020.  Total shipments for the participants surveyed by TIA across...