The Future of Freight Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the event of the fall. Subscribers to Check Call have a special discount code for F3 registration. This is going to be one of the best deals on F3 tickets. Use the code CheckCallF324 or go to this link, and the discount will be applied. There…
A day before it releases its second-quarter earnings, C.H. Robinson announced the divestiture of its European Surface Transportation (EST) operations to Sennder Technologies GmbH, a company it describes as “the leading digital road freight forwarder in Europe.” The price of the transaction was not disclosed by C.H. Robinson in its statement announcing the sale. The…
FreightWaves SONAR, the leading global supply chain market intelligence provider, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with WeatherOptics, a cutting-edge weather impact and risk intelligence platform. This collaboration will introduce WeatherOptics as the new provider of critical weather event insights on the FreightWaves SONAR platform, enriching the weather-related insights available to SONAR users. FreightWaves…
Knight-Swift Transportation announced Tuesday that it has acquired less-than-truckload carrier Dependable Highway Express (DHE) for an undisclosed sum. A wholly owned division of Los Angeles-based Dependable Supply Chain Services, DHE is a regional LTL operation with 14 service centers providing direct overnight service in California, Nevada and Arizona, according to its website. It also provides…
This story originally appeared on Trains.com. Canadian National’s operations are returning to normal through Jasper, Alberta, where wildfires devastated part of the town and shut down rail traffic last week. CN resumed service on Friday, and by Sunday volume through Jasper had rebounded to nearly pre-fire levels, according to data from RailState, which monitors rail…