Truck brokers

If it gets regulatory approval, a futures market for truck freight rates, based on DAT data, could help shippers mitigate pricing risks as the market gets more volatile.

Facing tougher customer demands and more supply chain complexity, shippers increasingly want and need to collaborate with transportation partners. It doesn't happen overnight.

Shippers and logistics operators at recent conferences didn't expect a massive capacity crunch to follow the rollout of an electronic logging mandate this year, but truckers warned there will be an impact.

Knowledge is power in contract talks, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference say.

Shippers, it is clear, want greater visibility into their supply chains.

The largest US trucking companies now are owned by large logistics operators looking to provide end-to-end services for shippers.

QualifiedCarriers.com data show more smaller trucking firms entering market as big carriers cut capacity.

LTL-Truckload operator strives to reverse revenue decline, fix finances.

Partnerships may herald new phase in a more mature transport technology market.

As XPO gains global scale, it is blending disparate networks to offer new services to shippers.

Echo Global Logistics sees need for even more optimization and analytics as online shopping begins to transform not just final-mile delivery but also middle-mile transport choices.

Large shippers seek integrated enterprise technology that provides greater visibility and control over execution and costs, but there's no "magic elixir."

Largest US logistics provider sees "meaningful" bid activity ahead in 2017.

Shippers show they are willing to pay more for dedicated capacity, and J.B. Hunt is happy to oblige.

New UPS subsidiary Freightex will work closely with US-based Coyote Logistics.

NFI's acquisition of Dominion Warehousing and Distribution is the latest of several cross-border deals between US and Canadian logistics and transport operators.

The US truckload spot market soared post-Thanksgiving, with volumes hitting highs and rates continuing their climb in what may be a stronger consumer-led recovery.

US shippers surveyed by the JOC, NASSTRAC, and Truckstop.com expect slightly higher freight volumes over the next six months, but mostly flat rates — except truckload rates.

As e-commerce volumes rise, UPS is adding more capacity.

Rapid changes in technology are reshaping the logistics landscape and spurring the growth of freight management services, including the formation of nearly $1 billion firm Sunteck/TTS Holdings.

Import warehouses are next in line as a wave of disruption caused by the sudden shutdown of Hanjin Shipping heads inland. Expect warehouses to be "inundated," a logistics executive says.

Technology platform will enable dispatchers and drivers at small companies that contract with the logistics to book loads, assign them to trucks and track vehicles and shipments.

XPO's North American LTL operations, the former Con-way, led the company's drive to its first quarterly net profit.

FR8 Revolution unveils a freight tracking tool, but has bigger plans involving a big truck maker.

The acquisition of Command Transportation last year is helping Echo Global Logistics gain truckload brokerage market share.

Looking beyond the broader market, Hub Group sees share gain, more volume ahead.

Broker benefits from lower costs, but lower rates take a bite out of truckload revenue.

TransForce's package division increased sales 6 percent, but its trucking business struggled in the second quarter.

Second-quarter results show $6.2 billion J.B. Hunt is spending to build intermodal, truck volume, revenue.

"Hauliers and shippers run the risk of being punished for infringement of rules they could not properly prepare for,” the European Shippers' Council said.

Trucking firms in Russia are consolidating and expanding their services in a bid to remain competitive with containerized rail transportation.

Truck capacity is overwhelmingly concentrated among small and midsize carriers.

The truck driver shortage is more a problem for large trucking operators, as the total number of drivers and small fleets grows, said Jeff Tucker, chairman of the Transportation Intermediaries Association and head of Tucker Company Worldwide.

Total Quality Logistics is opening a third facility in South Carolina, continuing a fast-paced expansion driven by shipper demand for truckload brokerage services.

Departures, both voluntarily and otherwise, in the wake of XPO Logistics’ takeover of Con-Way last year are leading to a migration of some executives to XPO's rival YRC Worldwide and leaving others in limbo.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat both Wall Street and Main Street in the fourth quarter, winning more business and hauling more freight when overall U.S. shipment volumes were dropping.

Thanks partly to its acquisition of non-asset truckload specialist Coyote Logistics, UPS is opening new routes into shippers' cross-border supply chains.

A new federal registration system for several types of transport operators isn't ready for prime time, but federal regulators are launching its “first phase.”

Transporation holding company Arcbest, the parent of ABF Freight, expanded its asset-light business by adding truckload broker Bear Transportation to fast-growing ABF Logistics.

Freight brokers are in a unique position to take advantage of the weak economy, BB&T Capital Markets says.