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Software Solutions

2016 Champions: Rock Stars of the Supply Chain

Risk/Compliance

Arizona-Sonora Partnership Points To Stronger Southwest Cross-Border Trade

Behind the alarming headlines about Mexican border problems, business and government leaders create trade partnerships for food and other products.

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Truck Tonnage Index Jumps 7.2% in February

American Trucking Associations (ATA)

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index jumped 7.2 percent in February.

Compressed Pro Fleet Of Trucks

Drayage Provider Total Transportation Services Files For Bankruptcy

The company said in a court filing that "downward pricing pressure from some of its major clients over the past year" along with mounting costs of litigation with independent drivers had proven more than it could manage.

Premium Transportation Services Inc., known locally as Total Transportation Services Inc. (TTSI), one of Southern California's largest port trucking companies, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday in federal court in Delaware.

Featured In Food Logistics: Midwest Ready For A Rebound

There’s little doubt the Midwest region will become a major battleground in upcoming years as U.S. ports and logistics providers along all three coasts compete for customers transporting goods to these inland destinations.

According to Bi-State Development Freight District executive director Mary Lamie, the Merchants Bridge in St. Louis, a railroad-only bridge constructed from 1889-1890 and still in heavy use today, is one renovation project on the fast-track as the new group seeks a new public-private partnership.

Fuel Efficiency

Lower Fuel Costs Fail To Boost Shipping Activity

Cass Information Systems, Inc.

Cass’ monthly freight index report showed shipping expenditures falling to 1.4 percent from a year earlier, while volume in the same period was down 0.2 percent, extending declines to a fourth month.

The Carrier Landscape Is Changing

Spot Rates Firm on Stronger Demand

DAT Freight & Analytics

The number of posted reefer loads rose 6 percent and truck posts declined 3 percent, leading to a 9 percent increase in the reefer load-to-truck ratio (3.8 loads per truck).

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Workers Sue XPO Logistics Over Misclassifying Drivers As Independent Contractors

Three trucking company subsidiaries of XPO Logistics Inc. were sued in California on Monday for allegedly misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues that drivers for XPO subsidiaries Pacer Cartage Inc., Harbor Rail Transport and PDS Transportation Inc. failed to pay minimum wage, provide meal breaks and rest breaks and reimburse business expenses, among other allegations.

Penske Custom Issue

Penske Logistics

Lawmakers Near Deal On Highway Transportation Funding

The multi-year highway bill that lawmakers are driving to finish work on would be the first transportation funding legislation to last longer than two years since 2005.

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E-Commerce Solutions

E-Commerce Gives Online Shipping Carriers An Edge As Holidays Approach; Railroads, Ocean Vessels And Truckers Sales Fall

Physical retailers are sitting on near record-high inventories as consumer spending hasn’t yet caught up with hopes of a surge stoked by low gasoline prices.

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