Inside the Tennis-Ball-Bounce Economic Recovery [Commentary]
Most major freight indexes continued to advance last month, but the economy may not be as healthy as we would hope.
November 2, 2020
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Most major freight indexes continued to advance last month, but the economy may not be as healthy as we would hope.
November 2, 2020
Trucking-related decisions often revolve around trucks, loads and drivers, but some fleets believe the strength of an invisible thread – in the form of telematics data – will decide which businesses grow and scale.
October 23, 2020
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Once upon a time, TMC stood for The Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations. Then during an ATA reorganization in 2001, "Technology" was added to its name and mission.
March 16, 2020
The ability to give customers real-time visibility into the status of their freight has become table stakes for landing business with larger shippers.
October 18, 2019
Transportation and logistics companies are now among the top-targeted industries by computer hackers. What can you do to prevent and prepare for a ransomware attack or a malicious computer virus?
October 6, 2019
Every winter impacts the economy in some way, but this season was especially tough and could have led to a slowdown in truck freight.
April 1, 2019
The way we pay for federally funded road and bridge projects hasn’t changed over the past 25 years and a fuel tax increase may provide the needed funding for our crumbling infrastructure. Analysis by Business Contributing Editor Evan Lockridge.
April 3, 2018
In the early 1990s, it was common to hear economists define a healthy economy as one with gross domestic product growth of around 3% annually.These days, when growth gets close to that “magic number,” it’s greeted with a yawn — and it shouldn’t, says business contributing editor Evan Lockridge.
September 13, 2017
It seems just as soon as one report comes out saying there are indications the economy (and trucking) continues to get better, another follows that seems to point the other way, says business contributing editor Evan Lockridge in his July column.
July 1, 2017
Economic growth has suddenly returned in the 3rd quarter but in his latest column Evan Lockridge asks, will it continue?
November 10, 2016
Pat Thomas, senior vice president of State Government Affairs for UPS, and current chairman of the American Trucking Associations, speaks to HDT on the lobbying year ahead.
January 12, 2016
After 28 years of proposals, studies, drafts, revisions, legal battles and technological innovations – not to mention an Act of Congress – federal regulators are close to requiring most interstate commercial drivers to keep track of their work hours with an electronic device.
April 18, 2014
Truck owners and manufacturers share responsibility for compliance with new limits on carbon dioxide emissions and fuel economy.
January 13, 2014
In some ways, the truck of the future is here today. What would a truck driver from decades ago think if he were suddenly transported from his own time into one of today’s state-of-the-art rigs?
December 9, 2013
“Veterans make excellent employees,” says Boyd Stephenson, who heads the American Trucking Associations’ driver licensing efforts. “They’re conscientious, they’re focused, they’re responsible; they’re everything you could want in an employee.”
November 26, 2013