If you’re only shipping a handful of pallets, it makes sense that you should only pay for that amount of space, right? Less-than-truckload shipping makes it possible for businesses to cost effectively send smaller shipments. In recent years, it has become an important part of many retailers’ shipping strategies. As such, more freight brokers and…
The number of affected vehicles is barely noticeable — until you count the number of recall campaigns. Electric trucks are having early life quality problems. The latest of 10 electric truck recalls in the past three months was reported on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website Monday. It involves the loss of power to…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) on Monday named John W. Dietrich, who recently retired as CEO at air cargo carrier Atlas Air Worldwide, as its executive vice president and CFO, effective Aug. 1. Dietrich will succeed Michael F. Lenz, who will leave his role July 31 but remain with the company until the end of the…
A Georgia-based trucking company, which reported a significant drop in revenue this year compared with the previous two years, filed for bankruptcy liquidation on Friday. Big J Express LLC, headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, filed its petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The trucking company, which obtained its operating authority…
On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about the cargo theft playbook that thieves are using this summer. Scott Cornell, national practice lead for transportation, crime, and theft specialist at Travelers, shares how theft has gone strategic with identity theft, double brokering and fictitious pickups. How and when do you hire drivers…