transportation

A few months back, the beachfront of Adelaide in Australia witnessed the arrival of a smart transit hub named Matilda, which can communicate with driverless vehicles registered within its network. This is an attempt to provide people real-time information on the whereabouts of their ride around...

Schneider Logistics published its 2019 Transportation Industry Review, arming shippers with the information they need to make short- and long-term distribution plans, budget freight costs and provide industry context to their broader audiences. Schneider's supply chain professionals also use...

Covenant Transport Group (NASDAQ: CVTI) plans to become a $1.5 billion revenue company – up from $885 million in 2018 – largely on the back of explosive growth in its revamped brokerage division, Covenant Transport Solutions. That was the message delivered on April 3 by Covenant...

  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced that the Department of Transportation has sent an hours of service (HOS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. Chao did not state the timetable before...

On Thursday night, FreightWaves hosted a gathering of the transportation, logistics, and financial industries at its new headquarters ahead of the launch of the Trucking Freight Futures contracts on the Nodal Exchange Friday morning. Executives from local and national firms celebrated the arrival...

XPO Logistics Inc (NYSE: XPO) reported disappointing fourth-quarter results and lowered its 2019 guidance Thursday. This may cause a “sentiment shift” that could persist for the next several quarters, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The Analyst BofA's Ariel Rosa...

Good day, Atlanta is no longer the worst spot in the country for congestion, according to research released today by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). ATRI annually releases a list of the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America. For the first time since 2014, the...

Many eyes in the weather world are focusing on the northwest corner of the U.S. A storm of significant proportions is about to turn the Pacific Northwest into a winter wonderland this weekend, much to the joy of children (and some adults) who enjoy skiing and sledding, but to the chagrin of truck...

Third-party logistics (3PL) companies are attractive investments for private equity firms, enabling new companies in the space to grow faster than ever before. FreightWaves and Redwood Logistics teamed up to host a webinar on how the availability of private equity is shaking up the transportation...

About the author: In addition to being a freight market analyst, Michael Crosby spent 10 years working for a wholesale company in Chattanooga, Tennessee – supplying restaurants and grocery stores with fresh fruits, vegetables, and dairy products within a 200-mile radius. From placing orders...

As if icy roads and stinging winds that could cause frostbite in the matter of minutes weren't bad enough, there's another problem resulting from the lingering record-breaking arctic outbreak across the Great Lakes region – flooding caused by ice jams. It's become so cold that...