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14
Mar
Fuel Prices Spike Reshaping US Shipping Networks
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 […]
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08
Mar
Record Fuel Prices Impacting Trucking Industry Expected To Compound Inflation
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 […]
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04
Mar
Disruption forcing US importers to Take Greater Control of Landside Logistics
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 […]
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03
Mar
Strategies to Increase LTL Freight Efficiencies and Improve on-time Performance
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 […]
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01
Mar
Parcel Shippers to Feel More Surcharge Pain
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 […]
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28
Feb
Russia-Ukraine Roundup: Big Surge in Price of Oil
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 […]
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23
Feb
Extensive winter storm to stretch from Plains to Northeast
About a week after a storm slammed areas from the Plains to the Northeast with snow and ice, as well as blizzard conditions in the Midwest, another far-reaching system will strike over the next few days. The storm will take […]
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21
Feb
US Intermodal Transport Congestion
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 […]
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21
Feb
US-Canada cross-border truck rates still affected after protests
Protests by Canadian truck drivers that blocked trade and traffic at several points on the US border may be over, but cross-border shippers are still taking a hit to their budgets from trucking rates that soared during the protests. Spot […]
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18
Feb
Tools carriers use to determine rebills
Who Issues Rebills? Due to the complexity and precision involved in LTL shipping, rebills are a reasonably common occurrence in the LTL industry. Rebills, also known as ad-bills, are billing adjustments that can occur in LTL freight shipping for a […]
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