Most trucks operating in Ontario and Quebec have had to mechanically govern their speeds at 105 km/h since 2008, but proposals for similar legislation in B.C. and the U.S. bring […]
Like many FreightTech companies that have laid off workers in recent months, CloudTrucks blames the declining freight market for the job cuts. “In this tough freight market, we must focus on operating efficiently so we can best serve our customers and maintain competitive rates,” Tobenna Arodiogbu, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based CloudTrucks, said in…
Exactly one year ago, SONAR’s ocean container bookings data revealed that U.S. import demand for containerized goods was dropping off a cliff, and while that same bookings data is still trending right alongside 2019 levels (as we forecast), the weakening global macroeconomic backdrop is continuing to add further downside risks to volumes. With U.S. importers…
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. One of the most infamous railroad crimes in history was the Great Train Robbery, which took place near Bridego Bridge north of London in 1963. In this true-crime episode of Tracks Through Time, Deputy Editor Brielle Jaekel is…
Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw didn’t start out working for the railroads. Shaw graduated from college with a degree in aerospace engineering and one of his first jobs was working in shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. In late fall 1989, about the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Shaw had gotten…