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It’s not just high gas prices that will increase the cost of trucking goods for consumers. Emission standards proposed by the U.S. EPA are also expected to increase costs. Illinois has the 7th highest gas prices in the nation, according […]

US importers are being forced to take greater control of landside delivery, whether by using expedited full truckload services or by funneling ocean containers through transloaded facilities to spit out freight in 53-foot domestic containers or trailers, or even by […]

While the transportation market place continues to face unique challenges in general, one of the specific challenges of the less than truckload (LTL) market is longer than normal transit times. This is due in part to LTL carriers working through […]

Time was that fuel surcharges were straight pass-through levies from the carriers to their customers. Surcharges accurately reflected a carrier’s fuel costs. Indices that set the surcharges were adjusted up or down depending on the direction of diesel and jet […]

Oil: After relative restraint, prices jumped Monday When the CME commodity exchange settled Friday, the price of ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) was $2.8495 a gallon. That was a grand total of 1 cent higher than where it was on […]

Tens of thou­sands of con­tainer loads of cargo that would nor­mally move on rail­roads are being hauled on Amer­ican roads each month as com­pa­nies look to get around con­tin­u­ing sup­ply-chain bot­tle-necks. U.S. in­ter­modal transports, in which rail­roads carry con­tain­ers and […]

Companies involved in Canada-U. S. trade have largely absorbed shipping delays brought on by protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates by rerouting trucks, freight industry firms said, even as costs to move shipments across the border have increased sharply during the […]

The blockade at the Ambassador Bridge continued on Thursday as the supply chain reeled from the disruption not only at the busiest commercial crossing between the U.S. and Canada, but also at two other border crossings. The bridge, which links […]

The container shipping sector will make more than $163 billion in operating profit this year as conditions that elevated rate levels on the major head haul trades out of Asia in the second half of 2021 will extend the extreme […]