On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to XPO Chief Strategy Officer Ali Faghri about spinoffs, LTL stand-alones, market disruptions and the company’s M&A plans. First Gear Inc.’s Erica Reiss has created a 1:64 scale replica of the silver screen’s most notorious autonomous truck, the Green Goblin from “Maximum Overdrive.” We’ll talk…
Canada’s federal government is suspending proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for trailers by up to one additional year, while a U.S. proposal on which those standards are based remains […]
A popular father-and-son trucking logistics sales team is making a big change under the family rig. Ed Burns, a multidecade veteran whose height and size long ago spawned the nickname “Big Ed,” will assume the new position of chief relationship officer, effective immediately, Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania-based company Burns Logistics said. His son, who is Ed Jr….
It has been a year since I wrote “Why I believe a freight recession is imminent.” The article, published on March 31, 2022, stated my case for why I thought the U.S. trucking market was headed for a significant downturn. The information in the article was based on analysis from SONAR, FreightWaves’ high-frequency freight data…
The amount of electricity generated in the U.S. in 2022 from renewable sources was greater than that generated from coal, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). This is the first time that power generation from coal has been outpaced by renewable sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal, EIA said in…