TForce Freight Inc., an operating less-than-truckload company of TFI International Inc. (NYSE and TSX: TFII) and formerly known as UPS Freight, said Thursday it has reached a tentative five-year contract with the Teamsters union. Teamsters officials were not immediately available for comment. The contract was set to expire July 31, and the union’s 8,000 or…
Jeremy Reymer, CEO and founder of DriverReach, is joined on this episode of Taking The Hire Road by an industry friend, Hayden Cardiff, chief innovation officer and founder of Idelic, who happens to be one of DriverReach’s strongest integrated partners. During his time working in trucking consulting, Cardiff identified a critical pain problem among fleets…
Delta Air Lines delivered sharply lower cargo revenue in the second quarter, reflecting the prolonged downturn in shipping demand that has engulfed all air logistics providers, even as overall revenue and profits soared to new highs. Cargo sales tumbled 37% year over year to $172 million, the Atlanta-based carrier reported Thursday. Delta’s cargo results have…
Uber Freight has implemented layoffs in its legacy digital brokerage operations in the second round of cuts this year. A spokesman for Uber Freight (NYSE: UBER) on Thursday confirmed the layoffs, which sources said totaled between 40 and 50. None of them were reported to have been in the transportation management business at Uber Freight,…
While intermodal shipments to the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert have stalled since the start of a strike on July 1, coal and grain movements have increased significantly amid unrelated mitigating factors, according to data from supply chain visibility platform RailState. The strike by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in…