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Gasoline prices are increasing almost daily, pinching the wallets and pocketbooks of nearly all Americans with cars. However, as bad as that news is, diesel prices are surging even more across the country. Today’s truck stop retail diesel prices hit […]

A marked increase in US manufacturing activity in the first quarter indicates more freight will hit the highway this year than in 2021, countering fears of a sharp downturn in overall demand for the US trucking market. US retail sales, the other […]

It’s a requirement today that companies constantly improve their supply chain efficiency to remain competitive and protect margins. Unfortunately, it’s common for many shippers to overlook some of the low-hanging fruit within their logistics network that makes accomplishing those goals […]

The national average price per gallon of diesel gasoline headed down but remained over the $5 per gallon mark, according to data issued this week by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA). Falling $0.071 cents, this week’s national […]

Motor carriers working the Port of New York and New Jersey are asking ocean liners and shippers to pick up more of the costs the truckers say they bear as a result of relocating empty containers further away from congested […]

Rerouting freight to avoid the extended lockdown in Shanghai, where daily confirmed COVID cases topped a record 17,000 this week, is becoming more difficult and expensive as cargo facilities in other Chinese cities become overcrowded, logistics companies and carriers warn. […]

The Dominica-flagged cargo ship Azburg that sank in the port city of Mariupol after being hit by two Russian missiles Tuesday is an example of the growing humanitarian crisis facing some 1,500 seafarers on vessels trapped in Ukrainian waters. In an interview […]

Taking steps to put the recently-passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into action, the White House and the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) said this week that $2.9 billion in funding is now available through a combined NOFO (notice of funding […]

There were 63 container ships waiting off East and Gulf Coast ports on Friday morning, plus another eight off the transshipment hub in Freeport, Bahamas — and it looks like it’s about to get worse. The number of liner services […]

US shippers are being forced to rethink and reset their transportation budgets as fuel prices soar in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that unleashed extreme volatility in global oil markets. Beyond the immediate wallop of rapid fuel-related […]