Welcome back to Loaded and Rolling! This week’s newsletter features memes, gifs and other fun content from none other than Mary O’Connell, host of both Check Call and Running on Ice, Call it a special appearance in the world of enterprise trucking. For those on the fence about registering for the Future of Freight Festival…
This story originally aired on Trains.com. U.S. rail traffic saw another surge in the week ending Aug. 24, according to statistics from the Association of American Railroads. U.S. railroads handled 516,807 carloads and intermodal units, a 9.5% increase over the same week in 2023. That included 228,858 carloads, up 1.2%, and 287,949 containers and trailers,…
Atlas Air is negotiating with the state of Alaska to build a large, dedicated operations base that would improve fluidity and ensure the airport can accommodate continued growth as the airline increasingly focuses on booming e-commerce trade from Asia to the United States, according to public documents and officials. The proposed deal would see Atlas…
In Canada, railroad union contract talks and trains came to a near-simultaneous halt, but shippers and logistics executives said the recovery has been almost as swift. “The work stoppage situation was resolved so quickly, we are not seeing much impact on the recovery,” Shelli Austin, president, InTek Freight & Logistics, based in Indianapolis, said in…
A former trucking company owner from Acworth, Georgia, reported to prison Thursday, a day after a federal judge denied a motion to postpone his surrender following his sentencing in a Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme. Roderick Billingslea, 30, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…