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News releases this week about Nikola’s fourth energy division president in less than two years, the company’s first Hyla-branded modular hydrogen fueler for fuel cell trucks, and Hyzon Motors’ development agreement for fuel cell refuse trucks skirted some underlying issues. Nikola touted the ability to serve up to 40 Class 8 trucks a day with…
Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index – USA SONAR: OTVI.USA After what has felt like a relentless barrage of bad news, an unseasonable upward trend in truckload tender volumes is giving domestic transportation providers the potential inflection point they have desperately been waiting for. The national Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) — a measure of the…
Trade has proven time and time again that it can show the health of a country’s economy and the health of logistics. The movement of trade is influenced by supply and demand, not by the thumping of chests of politicians. You have hand-wringing today about the health of China, but if you follow trade, you…
By a vote of 161-1, Teamsters local unions representing 340,000 full- and part-time workers at UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) voted Monday to endorse the tentative five-year agreement reached with the delivery giant on July 25 and recommend its passage by the full membership. Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates failed to…
By Bart De Muynck The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. The opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris takes place Friday. Thousands of athletes and millions of visitors will spend part of their summer in France to attend…
Year-over-year (y/y) declines in freight shipments and spend continued to taper during December, according to data compiled in the Cass Freight Index. December shipments outperformed normal sequential seasonal changes, up 2.1% seasonally adjusted. That followed a 0.3% sequential increase in November. Compared to a year ago, volumes captured by the data set were off 7.2%,…