Daily Infographic: Walmart, Packsize collaborate on special right-sized box packaging machine

Renewable fuels producer Oleo-X has established a production facility in Mississippi that will be served by CSX. The facility in Pascagoula will produce renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel feedstock used in pretreatment. CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) says the facility — located on a former Chemour chemical manufacturing facility that produced chemicals for tires, dyes and…

Just three weeks ago, the monthly FreightWaves “State of Freight” webinar for February didn’t feature many bullish factors that our experts were seeing in the market.  During the March “State of Freight” webinar, the outlook was generally as bearish as earlier. With at least one indicator turning slightly higher, there may have been at least…

Rail equipment manufacturers and rail car lessors see 2023 as a year of opportunities despite lower North American rail volumes in the first quarter. Here’s what officials said about the rail car market during recent earnings calls.  Trinity Industries upbeat on rail car leasing market Trinity Industries is optimistic that pent-up demand to move volumes…

Lawmakers in Manitoba are working to keep trucking companies with poor safety records off Canada’s roadways. Legislatures in the province recently introduced an amendment targeting “chameleon carriers” — trucking companies that close and reopen under a different name to escape previous safety violations. “The proposed legislation would strengthen authority to keep ‘chameleon carriers’ off roads,”…

This week on Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, is joined by longtime friend and industry leader Eli McCormick, president and CEO of family-owned Bestway Express Inc. Indiana-based Bestway Express was founded by McCormick’s father and started out hauling furniture to a handful of East Coast cities. After a few…

Logistics fintech platform Navix announced Tuesday it has secured $5 million in seed funding from several strategic and angel investors, including Tommy Barnes, logistics veteran and chief revenue officer of less-than-truckload platform MyCarrier, and Rob Estes, chairman and CEO of LTL carrier Estes Express Lines. In an interview with FreightWaves, Navix co-founder Eric Krueger explained…