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Deep Dive
The rise of LTL: How e-commerce changed the middle mile
Businesses are shipping smaller quantities of freight more frequently, giving logistics professionals more to manage in increasingly complex networks.
By S.L. Fuller • Oct. 6, 2021 -
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Home Depot gives shippers visibility into cheaper flatbed capacity
The retailer is partnering with Loadsmart's Flatbed Messenger marketplace to provide access to trucks with room on their backhauls.
By S.L. Fuller • Oct. 1, 2021 -
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TrendlineInside the trends affecting logistics management
The demise of the de minimis exception, trade tensions and tariffs are among the new challenges logistics managers are facing.
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FedEx partners with Paccar and Aurora on autonomous linehauls
FedEx is looking to AVs to improve safety, efficiency and productivity.
By S.L. Fuller • Sept. 28, 2021 -
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San Pedro Bay ports move to ease congestionLos Angeles, Long Beach ports extend truck hours amid cargo deluge
The ports' latest tweaks to their hours come after months of congestion and surging consumer demand.
By Jim Stinson • Sept. 23, 2021 -
Courtesy of Old Dominion Freight Line
LTLs become selective about freight as demand booms
Carriers have to make tough decisions to preserve quality of customer service.
By Jim Stinson • Sept. 17, 2021 -
Courtesy of Volvo Trucks
Long Beach port offers drivers traffic alerts via text to fight congestion
The free Truck Alert system aims to assuage some frustrations resulting from a deluge of imports.
By Shefali Kapadia , S.L. Fuller • Sept. 13, 2021 -
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Truck makers struggle to fill backlog of orders as supply chain issues continue
Unproduced orders are getting pushed into next year, potentially creating "even more headaches for the industry," according to one freight analyst.
By Jim Stinson • Sept. 2, 2021 -
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CH Robinson introduces drayage congestion surcharge for major US ports
Ports and the drayage providers that serve them have been walloped by a spike in volume and a lack of labor and equipment to quickly handle it.
By Max Garland • Sept. 2, 2021 -
Burlington's sourcing costs are up 78% over 2 years due to pandemic supply chain disruptions
Company executives laid out three reasons why supply chain costs are leading to high prices — and why they think price hikes won't last.
By Edwin Lopez • Sept. 1, 2021 -
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Gatik opens Texas hub for autonomous middle-mile deliveries
The AV company, known for delivering goods for Walmart, will deploy box trucks in response to heightened e-commerce demand.
By Max Garland • Aug. 31, 2021 -
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Ida disrupts freight movement after making landfall as Category 4 hurricane
Rescue and relief efforts are underway, but the damage to infrastructure and impact on business could be long term.
By Shefali Kapadia • Aug. 30, 2021 -
Courtesy of Navistar
Boiling truckload market to last through 2021: Morgan Stanley
Carriers are reporting a surge in demand as Labor Day approaches, with little protest from shippers as rates rise.
By Jim Stinson • Aug. 24, 2021 -
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Retail freight proves a doorbuster for trucking
The continued inventory stock-up will keep trucking busy until consumer picking starts to wane. Shippers are trying to lock down lanes they need by contracting with dedicated fleets.
By Jim Stinson • Aug. 19, 2021 -
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US Xpress projects tight truckload market will push up contract rates
Driver supply "remains challenging," and tight capacity will keep spot rates above contract rates through 2021, the company said.
By Jim Stinson • Aug. 12, 2021 -
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Industry group releases contactless delivery standard to increase safety, reduce dwell
The Consumer Brands Association found contactless delivery practices, like using electronic bills of lading, reduced average dwell time from 66 minutes to 23 minutes.
By Max Garland • Aug. 10, 2021 -
Courtesy of South Carolina Ports Authority
Shippers turn to intermodal in Q2 as they race to stock-up
"The trucking rates have increased so significantly that it's giving an advantage for the intermodal shipments," said Jeff Trombly, a professor of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
By Max Garland • Aug. 9, 2021 -
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Deep DiveFrom sapling to pure-play LTL: The story of XPO Logistics under Jacobs
Bradley Jacobs is a relentless numbers man and a serial entrepreneur. And he's one thing neither XPO nor GXO can replace.
By Jim Stinson • Aug. 2, 2021 -
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Trucking M&A intensifies as carriers seek 'holistic' portfolio
Uber Freight, Knight-Swift and others are making moves toward bigger books of business by buying companies with strengths in different transport sectors.
By Jim Stinson • July 26, 2021 -
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Freight shipping spend reaches record high as capacity constraints persist: US Bank
Challenges are playing out across all regions, but the Northeast saw the sharpest increase in spend from Q1 due to "pretty significant capacity limitations."
By Max Garland • July 22, 2021 -
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Capacity crunch prompts JB Hunt to limit service
Detention of trailing equipment in the intermodal and truck segments led the carrier to levy accessorial charges on shippers.
By Jim Stinson • July 21, 2021 -
Courtesy of South Carolina Ports Authority
Pandemic changed rail's product mix as e-commerce grew intermodal volumes
Large retailers and third-party logistics providers leveraged railroads to diversify their transport risk and get around labor constraints in the trucking market during the pandemic, according to a study by Northwestern University.
By Edwin Lopez • July 15, 2021 -
Higher contract rates pull volume from spot truck market
DAT Principal Analyst Dean Croke said this is the result of carriers securing higher contract rates, which reduces the incentive to focus on the spot market.
By Matt Leonard • July 14, 2021 -
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Walmart will add transportation pillar to Project Gigaton
The effort will focus on suppliers' fleets to achieve the retailer's goal to avoid one billion metric tons of greenhouse gases in scope 3 emissions by 2030.
By Matt Leonard • July 13, 2021 -
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Freight overflows push LTLs to make tough decisions
FedEx Freight admitted to "temporary targeted volume control" as shippers rush to fill inventories.
By Jim Stinson • July 13, 2021 -
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Lower inventories offset rising transport costs in 2020: report
A lack of inventory may have caused supply chain challenges, but it also led to a 15% decrease in logistics costs in 2020, according to CSCMP's Annual State of Logistics Report.
By Edwin Lopez • July 8, 2021
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