LTL Shipping

News pertaining to less than truckload shippers, small freight, parcel carriers and more.

Commentary

 
As the long, slow economic recovery grinds on, collaboration between shippers and carriers and 3PLs is moving toward the mainstream.

News & Analysis

 
17 May 2013
Mullen Group has signed an agreement to acquire Jay’s Moving & Storage, a private, less-than-truckload transportation corporation owned by Dennis Doehl, based in Regina, Saskatchewan.
FedEx Freight Canada’s new service center for the Vancouver area.
 
17 May 2013
FedEx Freight Canada, a subsidiary of FedEx, has held an opening ceremony for its new service center for the Vancouver, British Columbia, area.
FedEx Custom Critical loading operation
 
13 May 2013
Expedited carriers are diversifying services, adding technology and seeking new customers in an age of ‘deferred delivery.’
 
10 May 2013
Revelations this week that YRC Worldwide had considered acquiring Arkansas Best, parent of ABF Freight System, earlier this year seemed to help both companies on Wall Street.
 
10 May 2013
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters blasted YRC Worldwide’s recent attempt to open acquisition talks with Arkansas Best, charging the less-than-truckload carrier with “interference in the collective bargaining process.”
James Welch, YRC
 
10 May 2013
YRC Worldwide was — and still is — interested in acquiring not just rival trucker ABF Freight System but its $2.1 billion parent company Arkansas Best, which includes Panther Expedited Services, YRC Worldwide CEO James Welch said.
 
09 May 2013
IAS Logistics has plans to replicate its Texas Trucking Operation in Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.
 
09 May 2013
A. Duie Pyle has acquired a 60-door service center in Elkridge, Md.
ABF Freight System truck.
 
09 May 2013
Arkansas Best rejected an offer by YRC Worldwide, its largest unionized less-than-truckload rival, to purchase either ABF Freight System or the entire company.
ABF employee
 
06 May 2013
ABF Freight System reached a tentative five-year contract with the Teamsters union May 3.