Sep 9, 2020 | Drayage, Economy, freight supply chain management
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor | Aug 10, 2020 5:35PM EDT Large truckload carriers put the brakes on capacity cuts in the second quarter, keeping their truck counts flat after four quarters of trimming, according to preliminary JOC.com Truckload Capacity Index (JOC...
Jun 22, 2020 | Drayage, Logistics, logistics trucking services, Shipping, supply chain service company
The article below provides an excellent overview of the advances in autonomous vehicles for the movement of freight within the United States. One of the main points of the article is that there will be incremental movement before truly autonomous tractor-trailers are...
Jun 9, 2020 | Drayage, freight supply chain management, Logistics, LTL Transportation Services, Shipping
Less-than-truckload looking up, say analyst and pricing experts Deutsche Bank’s Amit Mehrotra encouraged by volume progression through May Below is an interesting article on LTL freight trends and analysis of carrier performance. One statement at the end of the...
May 8, 2020 | Drayage, Logistics, LTL Transportation Services, service trucking company, trucking company services
Paul, I have to say – if the carriers accepted this they must have felt it would really never be applied. Honestly, either I don’t understand what the plan is, or I think the carriers just simply ignored the wording as something that would not change the...
Apr 28, 2020 | Container Drayage, Drayage, Economy, freight supply chain management, Logistics, logistics trucking services, LTL Transportation Services, supply chain service company, supply chain services, Supply-Chain, trucking company services
How to Develop a Good LTL RFP By Paul Benfer, Kinetic Supply-Chain Services, LLC As published in the TRANSDIGEST-Volume XXV, Issue No. 266, April 2020 Few things in transportation management provide a higher level of satisfaction than running a successful LTL RFP or...
Apr 21, 2020 | Container Drayage, Drayage, Economy, freight supply chain management, Government Actions, Logistics, Ports, trucking company services
Covid-19 Statistical Review – April 20, 2020 – Stats from yesterday, April 20, 2020 Our Daily Update on the Data and the Trends Background: This is another in a series of statistical reviews of the emerging data on the Covid-19 virus. Note that our conclusions are...
