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With heat dancing off the pavement, cars up ahead shimmer In the afternoon sun. Inside the new Freightliner, a console jammed with instruments and switches curves around the air-suspended driver's [...]

Here's how shippers are achieving top-notch customer service with the help of their transportation partners. Editor's Note: This article is Part II of a special three-part series on logistics quality. [...]

Ritchie Gage [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many of those monster long haul semi-trailers rolling along North America's highways are piloted by Manitoba-trained drivers and they are some of the best drivers on [...]

The company best known for its brown trucks is going the extra mile on order fulfillment and cutting transportation costs at the same time. It all starts with an ideal [...]

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 [...]

The Transportation Intermediaries Association, is a trade group engaged in finding maximum brokerage opportunities for private truck fleets. The association is making increased efforts to maximize the reach of its services by enrolling new members.

Byline: Sean Kilcarr Frankly it's hard to focus on the perils posed by cyber threats at the moment, especially as we are now faced with the spread of the deadly [...]

Reports of the death of less-than-truckload (LTL) are greatly exaggerated. This small but important transportation segment (5.6% of motor carriage in 1995) has suffered from charges of undifferentiated carriers offering [...]

As truckers debate the merits of local vs. centralized customer service, technology stands to make the argument moot. When a shipper picks up the phone to call his trucker, trace [...]

Byline: Sean Kilcarr ¦ senior editor The trouble for U.S. Xpress Enterprises started when coolant began showing up in engine oil samples taken by the fleet, not long after it [...]

The Western Governors Association believes there's ample room for longer combination vehicles on High Plains highways, but must convince Congress to thaw a freeze limiting the use of double- and [...]

The supply chain executive suite is looking pretty green for 2010, but it isn't because of the color of money. Cash-strapped companies are closely scrutinizing their environmental plans, experts say, [...]

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year [...]

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010. In 2008, the American Trucking Associations sued the [...]

When the poet wrote 'Good fences make good neighbors,' he was being ironic. So it is in purchaing. Traditional barriers between buyers and suppliers have stood in the way of [...]

One factor spurring fresh consideration of outsourcing private fleets to dedicated fleet operators is the proliferation of environmental regulations on trucks. In 2008, the California Air Resources Board adopted stringent [...]

Surviving in the hyper-competitive harbor drayage industry has always been difficult, and a proliferation of clean-air programs has upped the ante for port truckers even more. Ten small and mid-size [...]

The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) is continuing to lobby hard against proposed cap-and-trade legislation with the support of new Congressional allies and trucking representatives. ATA fears such legislation will only [...]

A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) touting the benefits of electronic stability control systems for tractor-trailers is getting high marks from safety advocates and truck [...]

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is continuing to lobby hard against proposed 'cap-and-trade' legislation with the support of new Congressional allies. The trucking trade group fears such legislation will only [...]

Founded in 1923, Henningsen Cold Storage, based in Hillsboro, OR, is a diversified company offering temperature controlled logistics services in Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. The company [...]

Despite the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasting a 'normal to below normal' hurricane season this year, hurricanes remain a serious potential threat when it comes to the domestic [...]

In this drawn-out recession, the best tool to improving your bottom line is selling your services at a rate with which you can sustain or improve your market share. How [...]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has finally issued long-awaited new braking standards for commercial truck tractors, mandating that a tractor-trailer traveling at 60 miles per hour must come [...]

If drivers want facilities, they must use them In reply to the story'Drivers' fury over 'lay-by' claims (CM 28May): what a can of worms has been unleashed, to use a [...]

WASHINGTON D.C. If there's one thing hybrid vehicle component manufacturers are trying to convey to the trucking market today, it's that hybrids should no longer be considered 'concept vehicles' or [...]

Though people caught in Google Maps Street View pictures have lamented their lost privacy, that's nothing compared to the scrutiny livery drivers and truckers face. On Wednesday, Google's enterprise group […]

Half a century is a long time in anyone's business ledger - and S. Hatch Barrett, co-owner of Trebar Kenworth Sales in Boise, IA, recently reached that impressive career milestone. [...]

ORLANDO. Trucking needs to move beyond merely learning about biodiesel fuel, contends Steph Sabo, maintenance manager for Norrenberns Truck Service (NOTS). Sabo said that he still doesn't understand why discussions [...]

Ever wonder if reading trade magazines like Traffic Management is worth the time? If you harbor any doubts, just ask Bob Schayer. Schayer, the traffic manager at Abbott Diagnostics, has [...]

Con-way Truckload has become a participant in the U.S. Dept. of Labor National Apprenticeship Program, the company announced. The program allows eligible veterans and active military members to receive paid, [...]

Agency drivers get a lot of flak in the industry, but a few are currently using TruckNet UK to give the other side of the story - and some real [...]

Regional motor carriers are depending on personalized service to win shippers' business. What do Butler shoes, DAP caulk, Spiegel clothing, and Sony electronics have in common? They're all commodities shipped [...]

Advice to truckers: Squeaky wheels get the grease Harbor truckers have long complained about having to deliver containers and chassis to off-terminal depots for free or for rates that don't [...]

The change in fortunes and outlook for railroads in recent years has been nothing if not startling. It has triggered a debate among securities analysts, consultants and others who share [...]

Trucks are the best regional airfreighters around, says Ram Menen, senior vice president of cargo of Emirates Airlines. He's only half joking. 'If you look at the forecasts, you'll see [...]

Amid signs of a weakening economy in the wake of a soft peak season, the trucking industry is heading toward 2007 under clouds of uncertainty. As questions grow about demand, [...]

When your company is called Used Trucks there can be little doubt about the business you're in. Steve Banner reports. Possibly the last place you'd expect to find a thriving [...]

Tipper 2006 took CM into the rough with six of the top muckaway workhorses. Dave Young, Kevin Swallow and Colin Barnett spent two days putting them through their paces... This [...]

The Port of New Orleans is expected to allow commercial ships into its ports this week after Katrina closed the doors on what is a major gulf waterway. The three […]

The new US hours-of-service (HOS) rules affecting sleeper berth time is a 'bombshell' that Canadian and provincial trucking associations say could have major negative implications for industry efficiency, productivity, and [...]

Blue Arrow is to launch a brand new road-safety awareness scheme that is intended to encourage schoolchildren to take more care on the streets. The 'Kids and Trucks' campaign, to [...]

While the other three contenders in the contest to provide the British Army's next generation of trucks have been keen to show off their wares, MAN has been rather reticent [...]

Driver detention at customer docks is one of those problems everyone talks about, but no one does anything to solve. Well, almost no one. There's at least one carrier that's [...]

Thinking of a career change, or just want to know if the grass really is greener on the other side? Then this regular column has the answers. We set out [...]

In his 15 years at the RHA, Phil Flanders was always at the epicentre of the transport industry. CM looks back at his career IN HIS 15-YEAR TENURE as the [...]

After years of being held hostage by United Parcel Service's virtual monopoly on package delivery, shippers are looking to several relatively new competitors for rescue. But while Federal Express's FedEx [...]

DURHAM -- A trucker drives from Chicago to Raleigh with a load of window frames. But he doesn't want to drive back to the Windy City with an empty trailer. [...]