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  • Flexport Convoy load board app
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    Flexport relaunches Convoy’s load board

    Users began logging back into the platform shortly after the app reactivated, EVP and Head of Trucking Bill Driegert said.  

    By Feb. 23, 2024
  • An autonomous Einride vehicle pulls out onto a roadway in Selmer, Tennessee.
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    Autonomous Einride truck makes GE Appliances warehouse deliveries

    In Selmer, Tennessee, a robot also loads and unloads the freight.

    By Feb. 23, 2024
  • Driving on open road at beautiful sunny day. Aerial view of highway. Explore the Trendline
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from Trucking Dive

    These five stories detail the top trends and issues facing the trucking and transportation industry. 

    By Trucking Dive staff
  • The exterior of a former Yellow Corp. truck terminal in Landover, Maryland, that was acquired by XPO at a bankruptcy auction.
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    Deep Dive

    What’s a Yellow terminal worth? It depends on location, and who you ask.

    XPO, Estes and Saia spent hundreds of millions of dollars on properties. Old Dominion skipped the auction. Executives shared their reasoning in interviews and earnings calls.

    By Feb. 22, 2024
  • A Peterbilt truck, hauling a trailer, equipped with Aurora's autonomous driving technology.
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    Aurora more than doubles AV truck pilot revenue

    Autonomous readiness and performance indicators improved in recent months, the company said, as it approaches fully driverless operations.

    By Feb. 22, 2024
  • Saia tractors without trailers at a lot in Cresson, Pennsylvania
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    Saia plans $1B in capex this year. Yellow terminals are just a quarter of it.

    The carrier expects to spend a separate $300 million on real estate, alongside equipment and technology upgrades, CFO Doug Col said on an earnings call.

    By Feb. 21, 2024
  • Ryder System Laredo Texas new warehouse near shoring
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    Ryder System sets sights on growing cross-border business

    A new warehouse in Laredo, Texas, and an expanded drayage yard in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, give the carrier capacity to handle more freight.

    By Feb. 21, 2024
  • An Estes Express Lines truck
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    Estes angles for growth in Canada with Yellow terminal acquisitions

    The LTL carrier saw the competitor’s bankruptcy auction as a chance to take on more cross-border business, President and COO Webb Estes said in an interview.

    By Feb. 20, 2024
  • Tractor-trailers on a roadway with limited sunlight.
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    Declines persist in dry van contract replacement rates

    Overcapacity is still lingering as carriers seek to maintain market share, according to DAT.

    By Feb. 20, 2024
  • A Cardinal tractor-trailer.
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    Cardinal deal to generate $1B in annualized revenue, Ryder projects

    About 85% of the North Carolina business’ operating revenue comes from dedicated transportation, Ryder CEO Robert Sanchez said.

    By Feb. 20, 2024
  • CH Robinson alternate corporate HQ
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    CH Robinson names new surface transportation president

    Michael Castagnetto was promoted to oversee the brokerage’s largest business segment.

    By Feb. 16, 2024
  • Werner Enterprises tractor trailer back
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    Deep Dive

    Why carriers, shippers use drop and hook in good times and bad

    Fleets and brokers see their drop-and-hook programs as a competitive advantage that gives shippers what they want.

    By Feb. 16, 2024
  • Bison Transport intermodal CPKC
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    Bison Transport, CPKC ink intermodal services agreement

    The deal is among several partnerships between segment players to capitalize on growing cross-border shipping traffic.

    By Feb. 15, 2024
  • A photo of traffic jam in Atlanta, Georgia.
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    Atlanta’s Perimeter has 3 of the top 10 U.S. truck bottlenecks

    But Georgia Motor Trucking Association President and CEO Ed Crowell expressed optimism to Trucking Dive about ongoing improvements.

    By Feb. 15, 2024
  • Swift trailer hauled on a highway alongside traffic.
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    Knight-Swift buying 10 more Yellow leases

    The carrier is paying about $2.2 million for the additions as it continues the buildout of its LTL network.

    By Feb. 14, 2024
  • Three of ArcBest's new Vaux autonomous forklifts stand in a row with their lights illuminated in a dark warehouse.
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    ArcBest debuts line of automated forklifts, reach trucks

    The company has piloted the remotely operated equipment in customers' distribution centers and manufacturing facilities, CEO Judy McReynolds said in an interview.

    By Feb. 13, 2024
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters following the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate in September 2023.
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    AV restrictions bill reintroduced in California

    The measure seeks to require safety operators onboard heavy-duty self-driving trucks until politicians further authorize the technology.

    By Feb. 13, 2024
  • A truck on Route 66 travels by an open field with a blue sky in the background.
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    Trucking executives point to potential for 2024 market recovery

    “The freight downcycle seems unlikely to last through the entire year 2024,” Wabash CEO and President Brent Yeagy said on an earnings call.

    By Feb. 12, 2024
  • A Torc Robotics truck on a highway with other trucks in the background.
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    Q&A

    Torc Robotics’ 2024 goals include expanding testing locations

    Company executive Walter Grigg highlighted the changes in an interview with Trucking Dive at a recent technology conference.

    By Feb. 12, 2024
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    Sponsored by Truckbase

    Top 7 trucking dispatch software providers for 2024

    Regardless of your fleet size or business model, selecting the right dispatch solution is crucial for success.  

    By Bryan Jones, CEO of Truckbase.com • Feb. 12, 2024
  • XPO CIO Jay Silberkleit points to a QR code above a door at the carrier's Hagerstown terminal in Pennsylvania.
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    XPO will add 2,000 doors with Yellow terminal acquisitions

    Half of the 28 facilities will expand the size of the carrier's real estate network, while it moves into the rest from smaller, existing locations nearby.

    By Feb. 9, 2024
  • P.A.M. Transportation has acquired Metropolitan Trucking for $77.4 million.
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    PAM Transportation Services posts Q4 loss, notes impact of UAW strikes

    Its truckload operating ratio was 103.7% for the quarter and 97.7% for the year.

    By Feb. 9, 2024
  • Yellow Corp. YRC Montgomery Illinois terminal
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    Yellow repays $700M Treasury loan

    The LTL carrier’s bankruptcy proceeds covered the COVID-19 relief loan, plus interest.

    By Feb. 8, 2024
  • A tractor and trailer bearing the Heartland Express brand drives down a hill on an interstate.
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    Heartland Express acquisitions bite into Q4 earnings

    Despite operating ratio woes, CFI and Smith Transport helped the carrier's revenue reach a record high in 2023.

    By Feb. 8, 2024
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    Forward Air CEO out following Omni merger

    Chief Legal Officer Michael Hance will lead the company as interim CEO following Tom Schmitt’s departure.

    By Feb. 7, 2024
  • Plow trucks work to clear the Interstate 235 John MacVicar Freeway Freeway as winter storm Gerri dumps inches of snow with high winds in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 12.
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    Tracker

    Extreme weather in January obscures carriers’ Q1 outlooks

    ABF Freight had more than twice as many service center closures last month as usual.

    By , Updated Feb. 9, 2024