On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to NASA’s Katie Rogers about how the space agency’s supply chain works on Earth and in orbit. Mother truckers, this one is for you. IMC driver recruiter and mother Meghan Turner joins the show along with trucker Felecia Pipkins to speak to why pulling containers…
In a previous career, Jeff Horler worked in the funeral management business. Little did he know at the time how applicable the skills required in that line of work – […]
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. Two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, in the early 20th century made history when they created a flying machine and literally launched modern-day aviation. Wilbur and Orville Wright famously went from bicycle repairmen to the fathers of flight on…
WASHINGTON — An owner-operator-backed bill aimed at preventing a speed mandate for trucks is getting heavy pushback from safety groups aligning with small-business trucking’s big-business competition. A coalition that includes Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Truck Safety Coalition, the National Safety Council (NSC) and Road Safe America are lobbying lawmakers to oppose the…
This week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 25 (Shippers) Last week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 25 (Shippers) Three-month FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 25 (Shippers) The FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data in FreightWaves SONAR to analyze the market and estimate the negotiating power for…