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In June, about a dozen transportation veterans' LinkedIn profiles suddenly lit up with a new company name — FreightVana — but details about the outfit and its objectives were hard to come by. But now FreightVana's founding team, which includes co-CEOs Shannon Breen and John Gamero as well as Chief...

Getting pineapple and gourmet seafood dinners on the plates of tourists near Waikiki Beach is not as simple as it may seem. Even if goods are locally sourced, truck drivers still need to transport the fresh food, park, and deliver it to restaurants in high-traffic areas. And in Hawaii, locating a...

In our final episode of this Cyberly Hits the Road series, we're taking one interview from one event and combining it with an interview from another event as a sort of the last hurrah. But these last hurrah's are doozy's as we got Chris Jolly aka The Freight Coach joining the show in a two-part...

Robert Brown, Senior Director of External Affairs at TuSimple, joins Tyler Cole to unpack how automating heavy-duty trucking can impact overall supply chain sustainability. From fuel savings and freight efficiency to reduced maintenance costs and alternative fuels, the discussion covers a wide...

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation, and weather. This week features Hurricane Ida's historic Northeast flooding, a behemoth piece of equipment heading to Ida-damaged Louisiana, and more. Ida's Inundation...

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Bookings of new Class 8 trucks rose to their highest level in five months in August as manufacturers opened their 2022 order books a crack. But the completion of equipment is hostage to microchip shortages and across-the-board supply constraints. In Chillicothe, Ohio, some 350 Kenworth Truck Co....

Carrier profitability is tight. The driver shortage is worsening. Sustainability efforts are in the spotlight with a focus on the greening of commercial transportation. Trucking industry insurance rates continue to climb due to fatal accidents and costly verdicts. While there are technological...

The school year has just begun, but the job search is officially underway for college seniors nationwide.  For those with ambition — and wanting to land a great job upon graduation — Trucking U might just be the ticket. This week's episode of Taking the Hire Road features Anna Faford, vice...

It's times like these that it's more fun to write about transportation issues than to actually have to move freight (not that I've ever actually moved freight). On Wednesday, topics at the FreightWaves Intermodal Summit included port congestion, rail ramp congestion, the chassis shortage, the...

This week's Advanced Clean Transportation Expo expounded on two major electrification themes: the higher power and faster infrastructure critical to speed the adoption of battery-powered trucks, and the more rapid arrival of hydrogen-powered fuel cells, once laughed off as a science project always...

Less-than-truckload carrier Saia reported year-over-year tonnage increases for the first two months of the third quarter on Friday. The Johns Creek, Georgia-based carrier saw tonnage increase 12.6% year-over-year in July (shipments +3.4%, weight per shipment +9%) and 9.9% in August (shipments +1.9...

Truck transportation jobs rose by a solid number in August, with seasonally adjusted jobs rising faster than not seasonally adjusted. In the truck transportation sector as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, seasonally adjusted jobs in August rose by 5,400, to 1,498,500 jobs. On a not...

Nikola Corp. is going all-in on hydrogen fuel cells with Bosch Group, licensing the German supplier's technology to assemble modules for Class 7 and Class 8 heavy-duty electric trucks at its new plant in the Arizona desert. The agreements cast doubt on the last vestige of a memorandum of...

TruckPark users can now access the company's parking reservation system through the Roady's Truck Stop on-demand app. Roady's is the nation's largest collection of independently owned truck stops with locations in 38 states. TruckPark provides a proprietary Enterprise Booking System (EBS), branded...