Can Trucking Companies Fend Off a Holiday Armageddon?
The last few years have been hard on transportation companies. As e-commerce sales have soared, trucking and package delivery businesses have had trouble estimating...
American Job Boom Led by Package Delivery Services
In the recent Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of Job Openings & Labor Turnover, it was reported that employers had 6.16 million jobs unfilled,...
States Pull Back While They Await Federal Government Infrastructure Plan
States aren't borrowing as much money to fund roads, airports, bridges and other pieces of infrastructure because they're waiting to see what the Trump...
Could Your Black Friday and Christmas Deliveries Cost Extra This Year?
The explosion of e-commerce has made package delivery companies like UPS and FedEx very profitable, and it has also stretched them to the limit....
New UPS Hub in Phoenix Will Cost $180 Million
A new UPS hub in Goodyear, AZ (near Phoenix) will bring 1,500 jobs to the area, and cost $180 million. The hub will expand...
Could Self-Driving Trucks Save Lives?
If you have watched the Disney/Marvel movie Logan, you may have noticed the self-driving freight trucks cruising the highways alongside Hugh Jackman's eponymous mutant...
Transports Look to Sympathetic Trump Admin to Fight Costly Obama-era Regs
Typically railroad operators and trucking companies fight tooth and nail over who can best move freight. But the two rival industries have come together in...
A Warning Sign from the Transport Sector?
Margins are falling in the transportation sector. FedEx miscalculated holiday demand by a long shot, and UPS and FedEx are barely treading water when...
Truck Orders Surging Since November
I wrote to you here that in October trucking companies were ordering trucks at record lows, with not much hope for the 2017 economy. But...
For the First Time in Five Years Trucking Hiring is Soaring
Jennifer Smith reports for The Wall Street Journal that the trucking industry is hiring faster than it has for five years. Companies seem to...