More Freight And Rate Hikes Could Be Ahead For Trucking Executives
More Freight, Higher Rates Concern Trucking Management
After a winter season that the trucking industry now far remembers, the trucking economy is stronger then ever. Trucking executives are encouraged by a stronger economy that continues...
6 Things Freight Brokers Love And Hate
Every call you make about a load is a potential negotiation. Knowing what brokers love and hate goes a long way in determining how successful those negotiations will be. I've worked in transportation and...
Trucking Industry Planning To Add Capacity To Keep Up With High Demand
Even though the U.S. economy has shown weakness as of late, data explains that the economy is still expanding. Despite the trucking industry struggling to obtain new drivers, With the demand for freight ever-growing,...
Revenue From Freight Expected To Grow Over 70 Percent In The Next Decade
Overall U.S. freight tonnage will rise nearly 25% and revenues from that freight will surge above 70% over the next decade, per the latest long-term freight forecast released by the American Trucking Assns. (ATA).
The...
Factors to be consider while picking freight forwarder for transport
Most people do not have to bother about transporting packages to different lands. At the most one may mail a big Christmas gift through USPS or rent a U-Haul to move your stuff if...
October 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)
Five Years: Freight Transportation Services Index, October 2009 - October 2014
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Source for Recession Dates: National Bureau of Economic Research, US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which...
Trucking Industry Will Need To Hire 890,000 New Drivers In Next Decade
890,000 Drivers Will Be Needed
The trucking industry will need to hire 890,000 drivers in the next decade to replace retirees and meet rising demand, and companies are already pushing up pay to avoid falling...
Top 10 Fastest Growing Trucking Firms Led By Daseke
Daseke Leads Fastest Growing Flatbed, Jack Cooper Transport Ranks 2nd
A flatbed and specialized freight carrier and two auto transport companies were the fastest-growing businesses on a list of the 50 largest U.S. trucking firms...
U.S. Cargo Thefts Up 7 Percent-Could See Theft Spike Today
Record U.S. Cargo Thefts In 2015?
With U.S. cargo thefts up 7 percent year-over-year during the first quarter of 2015, many truck drivers are keeping an extra eye out on their loads this Memorial Day...
Truck Driver Age Limit Of 18 Years Old Being Pushed By Congress
Are You Comfortable With Teen Truck Drivers?
Can a 18 year old rookie truck driver handle the country's busiest highways? You be the judge but Congress thinks so. Due to shortage of truck drivers, Congress...