Two Freight Forwarding Firms Join Forces to Form NorthPoint Forwarding
Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development has launched NorthPoint Forwarding, a freight-forwarding affiliate.
April 21, 2017Old Dominion to be Official Freight Carrier for Major League Baseball
Old Dominion Freight Line has hit a homerun with its recent announcement that the Thomasville, N.C.-based company will be the official freight carrier for Major League Baseball.
April 19, 2017Tech Startups Beat Uber to Freight Market, Connect Drivers With Loads Via Mobile Apps
Uber entered the freight world last year, launching speculation and arguments on whether the tech company could strike a second time and do to shipping what it did to passenger transportation — and if so, which segment of freight would have to endure the type of disruption experienced by the taxi industry.
April 10, 2017NHTSA Upgrades Investigation Into Freightliner Cascadia Wiper Motor Failures
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has upgraded an ongoing preliminary investigation into windshield wiper motor failures on a potential 193,000 2015-16 Freightliner Cascadias.
April 7, 2017Pilot Freight Services Achieves Record Revenue, Shipments in 2016
Privately held logistics provider Pilot Freight Services announced it closed 2016 with record annual revenue of $591 million, up 4.5% from $565 million in the 2015 period.
February 14, 2017Class 8 Orders Surge 22%
North American Class 8 orders in January surged 22% year-over-year, besting analysts’ expectations to post the highest total in 13 months.
February 13, 2017Transport ‘Lockbox’ Advocates Say Success Requires Simplicity
Advocates who helped transportation lockboxes receive approvals from voters in Maryland, Illinois and New Jersey in 2014 and 2016 said that keeping the proposals simple is critical to their success at the polls.
February 13, 2017Freightliner Begins Production of New Cascadia Model
Freightliner Trucks has begun production on its new Cascadia model, which boasts up to an 8% fuel economy increase compared with a similarly spec’d 2016 Cascadia Evolution.
February 3, 2017Regional Planners Use Freight Capacity to Woo Business Relocation
WASHINGTON — Freight considerations are rarely of primary importance for legislators and others in government, but there are some public officials who appreciate the great importance of transporting goods and use that understanding to recruit business development.
January 11, 2017Slow Freight Growth, Political Upheaval Define Year in Trucking
It was a year of generally slow growth for freight carriers as well as shifting political winds as Americans elected business mogul and reality television personality Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States.
January 4, 2017