November 17, 2023
Via: FreightWavesThe transportation industry is plagued with waste. In fact, nearly half of the heavy-duty trucks on the road at any given time are carrying less than half the inventory they were designed to hold. This means that about 25% of […]
June 26, 2023
Via: FreightWavesThere are several types of fraud plaguing the transportation industry. Double brokering is on the rise, costing the industry over $100 million on an annual basis. Freight bill fraud — which is when freight is delivered but the payment is […]
June 16, 2023
Via: Intelligent TransportWith intentional efforts over the last several years, progress has been made in the public transportation industry towards building more diverse and inclusive workspaces. However, much work still remains. Women, for example, comprise more than half of transit passengers, but […]
November 7, 2022
Via: FreightWavesMarket Dashboard Plus+ and National Truckload Index Forecast released during F3. In case you missed the hottest event in freight last week, Day 1 of FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival included Peter Zeihan mapping the collapse of globalization and […]
July 14, 2022
Via: Transportation TodayRepublicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a roundtable July 14 with key industry stakeholders to discuss inflation’s impact on America’s infrastructure, U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) said. Graves, the ranking member of the T&I committee, said […]
May 31, 2022
Via: Transport TopicsBecause of the now more than two-year-long COVID-19 pandemic, the freight industry is undergoing an accelerated rate of change. Trends such as the explosive growth of e-commerce that were expected to take five to seven years to complete now are […]
January 12, 2022
Via: FreightWavesWith e-commerce redrawing the landscape for freight transportation, a new Atlanta-based carrier recently launched as a middle-mile market provider across the South, Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions. Ascend is a dry van, full truckload company with a family culture that innovates […]
February 2, 2021
Via: Metro MagazineThe year 2020 delivered a “gut-punch” to the public transportation industry. After riding high in 2019, seeing ridership gains for the first time in nearly a decade, transit agencies were caught flat-footed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant government […]
March 2, 2017
Via: Transport TopicsTransportation activity was steady to somewhat higher across the nation from the end of last year to mid-February, according to a Federal Reserve report. The Richmond region reported recent softer demand and in the New York area transportation industries reported […]