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CLEVELAND — FreightWaves unveiled the 2023 Shipper of Choice awards during the second day of its Future of Supply Chain conference. This year’s list showcases a blend of both familiar and new names, with two companies securing their fifth consecutive awards and 15 companies making their debut. FreightWaves’ Timothy Dooner and Tony Mulvey announced the…
INDIANAPOLIS — The full implementation of the federal ELD rule dates back to December 2019, but that hasn’t stopped hours-of-service violations from racking up, P. Sean Garney noted in a presentation at the Scopelitis Transportation Law Seminar. The working theory always was that the tight, immutable data on HOS generated by an ELD would reduce…
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Thursday it has entered a long-term intermodal deal with Walmart that includes volume and capacity commitments. As part of the deal, J.B. Hunt will acquire Walmart’s intermodal assets. The multiyear deal expands an existing relationship between the two Northwest Arkansas companies, with J.B. Hunt (NASDAQ: JBHT) buying Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT)…
By Benjamin Gordon The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. In 2020, hospitals around the world faced a shortage of N95 face masks and other medical essentials, adding to the chaos surrounding COVID-19. Two years later, the same hospitals confronted…
A former CDL school owner in Philadelphia was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for bribing a CDL exam administrator to pass students who didn’t take the exam. Vladimir Tsymbalenko, 53, who owned Vlad’s CDL School, was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison and three years of supervised release by…
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago. In this edition, from the April 1980 issue of American Shipper, FreightWaves revisits a firsthand…