On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to NASA’s Nicole Piontek and Mike Ewert about the space agency’s CHAPEA mission to build 3D-printed habitats on Mars. We’ll learn all about the logistics involved with putting people and supplies on the red planet. Aerial Resupply Coffee’s founder, Mike Klemmer, talks about coffee supply…
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. As we prepare for the upcoming holiday weekend to celebrate Memorial Day, FreightWaves Classics memorializes a lesser known story of WWII but one that is just as important. Last week, Tracks Through Time covered another hidden gem from…
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference when many school districts struggle to keep the vehicles they have road worthy? OK, so school buses are not hauling the freight we usually write about. But they carry precious cargo — our…
CHICAGO — The Class I railroads must increase their head count levels because doing so not only will bolster rail service but benefit the U.S. economy overall, Surface Transportation Board Chair Marty Oberman said to a crowd of rail shippers and rail employees at a trade conference Thursday. “Why all the continuing focus by the…
Some of the biggest retailers in the U.S. announced unusually weak first-quarter results, with signs of increasingly cash-strapped consumers abundant. Among the themes discussed on Q1 calls were the shift from discretionary items to lower-margin essential ones (food and beverage), elevated “shrink” (theft) and a resumption of price competition following unusually substantial price increases during…