Demand and rates for airfreight transportation continue to soar through the normally soft summer season, powered by the unrelenting strength of e-commerce fulfillment from China and shippers pulling forward orders for the winter holidays to protect against rising costs, capacity shortages and worsening ocean shipping delays. Air cargo volumes remain elevated from major Asian and…
A Georgia jury recently awarded more than $47 million to the family of a 35-year-old owner-operator who was killed in a August 2017 crash involving a former company driver for Wisconsin-based Schneider National Carriers. “Nuclear verdicts” are described as jury awards in which penalties exceed $10 million. Following a five-day trial, jurors in Cherokee County…
WASHINGTON — Major freight railroads and their short-line counterparts raised red flags on Capitol Hill about supply chain consequences of a California regulation aimed at cutting air pollution from locomotives. If the California Air Resources Board is successful in securing approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California’s In-Use Locomotive Regulation, adopted by the state…
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) announced during its recent summer meeting that major National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) changes will take effect in the first quarter of 2025. […]
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