5 Key Changes to Freight Broker Rules: Unveiling FMCSA’s Proposed Rule for Better Compliance
Discover the Freight Broker Rules proposed by FMCSA to enhance financial security requirements and compliance for freight brokers and forwarders.
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Freight Shipments Climbing
Freight shipments climbing with a sequential uptick in trucking shipments during the 2Q. Freight payments data released in late July showed a sequential uptick in trucking shipments during the second quarter, reversing the declining trend…
Amazon Wants More Tractor-Trailers
Amazon is planning to launch an “Amazon Freight Partners” program to help train delivery upstarts that would, in turn, join Amazon’s fleet of exclusive delivery partners, per a new report from The Information. The e-commerce…
Shippers get New Dry-Bulk Tool
Roger LLC, an Omaha, Neb.-based technology company for the dry-bulk industry, has created an app tool to assist dry-bulk truck shippers become more efficient by streamlining their supply chain from planning to payment, company officials…
New Chief at FedEx
John A. Smith, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Freight, will be named president and chief executive of FedEx Ground on June 1. Smith succeeds Henry Maier, who will remain at FedEx as an…
For Trucking, ‘Tailwinds and Headwinds’ This Year
The new year will be a story of contending tailwinds and headwinds,’’ according to a 2021 economic forecast by U.S. Xpress. The forecast, from one of the country’s largest truckload fleets, looks at economic indicators…
Shippers Optimistic On Freight Volumes
A survey of shippers optimistic on freight volumes increasing this year. In its sixth annual State of The North American Supply Chain Survey, Averitt Express surveyed about 1,800 shippers from a wide variety…
ATA Sues Over Chassis Use
The U.S. Federeal Maritime Commission (FMC) has assigned to its Office of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) a complaint from the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) alleging massive overcharges for container chassis use in recent years. FMC received the complaint from the association on Aug. 17.
Celadon Auctioning Mexican Business
Celadon Group has asked a court to allow it to pursue a public auction for its Mexican businesses, with a deadline set for early summer. The most recent court filings are part of the U.S…
Brightoil Petroleum ‘Back in Business’
Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited said last month it is now “back in business,’’ having reached a settlement with the Vietnam-based trader Petrolimex which initiated a bankruptcy order against Brightoil over a $30 million debt. In…
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