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Now that it's generally accepted that truckers are taking away air shipments in the U.S. domestic market, surface operators are sending a new and more aggressive message to air specialists: [...]

Is a shipment still air freight when it never sees an airplane? Shippers and forwarders are finding new beauty in a transport standby - trucks When David Keane needs low-cost, [...]

As America's economy grows, so does the volume of freight transported by truck. That's good news for trucking, since the combined revenue of the U.S. domestic freight transportation industry is [...]

Cashing-in On Trucking The meat and potatoes of the U.S. transportation network is trucking. Every air freight shipment is transported via truck at least twice. Trucking companies generate more than [...]

Driven by a need to cut costs in the harsh fiscal environment of the early 2000s, U.S. forwarders and shippers began moving domestic time-sensitive freight on the ground with increasing [...]

Federal Express has boon selling freight for years, but now it has the expertise to make it work It's a truism in the air cargo business that small packages and [...]

Though trucks change little from year to year, long term trends affect the efficiency and cost of air cargo. The split between forwarders who operate their own trucks and those [...]

Air freight truckers and forwarders have a history fluctuating between mutual suppor and direct competition; now each is learning to let the other handle its own specialty. Many years ago, [...]

Expedited trucker Towne Air Freight took over the operations of Dart Air Freight from Chicago to the East Coast under an agreement that will have the two companies coordinate connections [...]

Air freight operators looking for shippers are finding more of them than ever are on the ground At one Midwestern truck terminal in the middle of the last decade, the [...]

Less-than-truckload carrier Daylight Transport introduced a guaranteed on-time delivery service with no limit on size and [...]

Airport-to-airport trucking has been a prominent component of the European air cargo business for many years and now, it would seem, is set to become even bigger. Nowadays, European airlines--or [...]

Hold onto your air waybills--trucking is about to go international. Not international in the way it has been for years, with trucks crossing close-by borders and trucking companies striking up [...]

Xpress Direct has rapidly built a highly respected reputation by continually opening new windows in the world of expedited transportation solutions. Xpress Direct has established a track record of success [...]

FedEx Custom Critical launched a temperature-sensitive delivery service called TEMP-ASSURE Validated that includes specialized tracking of temperature-sensitive shipments, intensive and redundant data logs and special standards for [...]

Our business is your business. It's this total commitment to your company's transportation needs that drives Old Dominion's advancements in technology, produces innovative services, and motivates our thousands of employees [...]

Most shippers proclaim air freight service and speed are more important than price, but many still reverse that equation on the ground. 'When a customer approaches us, the most important [...]

A simple goal has been the cornerstone of U.S. Xpress' immense success: provide customers with unparalleled excellence in service. Serving many air freight shippers, forwarders, airlines and customs brokers, U.S. [...]

Surface transport across Europe is getting a little more integrated as operators try to take advantage of the lowered borders within the European Union. KLM-owned Cargo Service Centre Holding and [...]

Over the past several months we have talked, in this column, about the need for cooperation between the segments of the air cargo industry; the forwarder, the airline and the [...]

In his talk before the joint Airforwarders Association land Air & Expedited Motor Carriers' Airfreight Management Conference, Dennis Patrick, president of Lynden Air Freight and chairman of the association, challenged [...]

For a full-service airfreight forwarder, every one of his or her services begins and ends with a smooth operation on the ground. Owning trucks can give a forwarder a tremendous [...]

A Third Opinion In Marcia Jedd's column on trucking ('A Second Opinion,' June, 1991), Keith Beacham, director of marketing at Contract Freighters Inc., advised shippers to avoid the one-call-does-it-all attitude. [...]

From Dock To Dock To be competitive, air freight forwarders should consolidate services to offer pick-up, warehousing and delivery. Airfreight forwarders have been able to do all right for themselves [...]