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FTR Trucking Conditions Index Hits Four-Year High in February
Strong freight rates push TCI to 10.2, but FTR expects fuel-price volatility to skew March results.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHStrong freight rates push TCI to 10.2, but FTR expects fuel-price volatility to skew March results.
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In his State of the Union address, President Trump again said he wants America’s infrastructure revamped and implied that Congress still does, too – but he offered no new details on how to go about it.
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Some of the issues of most concern to the industry, such as the driver shortage, hours of service, and truck parking, are affected by the growth of e-commerce and omni-channel marketing. A new study by the American Transportation Research Institute analyzes these impacts.
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Load-matching technology provider Convoy said it has reached a major milestone: The company reports that its freight marketplace is automatically matching — without human intervention — 100% of loads to trucks in top markets.
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With our 2019 economics and truck volume forecast in place, where should that take us in terms of earnings, and where are we in the course of the earnings cycle for truckers? Commentary from the February issue of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine.
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I.D. Systems has acquired the telematics provider CarrierWeb, integrating the company's technology solutions into its own to offer a fully-integrated platform for fleets.
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Amazon is the 800-pound gorilla in e-commerce retailing, but what is its impact on parcel carriers, less-than-truckload carriers, and the third-party logistics markets?
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Bill Strauss, senior economist and economic advisor at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, told aftermarket suppliers that the U.S. economy is likely to keep expanding the next couple of years, albeit at a more-typical pace.
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Uber says its new Facility Ratings lets carriers and drivers share feedback about the facilities they visit, giving shippers the insights they need to make changes at facilities to improve driver satisfaction.
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Noting that the winners were selected from a record number of nominees and finalists, the Truckload Carriers Association and CarriersEdge have announced their 2019 Best Fleets to Drive For.
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Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings is growing its profits through more efficient operations, rather than by adding trucks to increase capacity, as it reported fourth-quarter 2018 results that were better than analysts expected, especially in Swift Truckload.
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