LandLine: Fight to add truck parking adds some muscle
The fight to secure more truck parking spots across the nation just added some muscle thanks to two new bills in the U.S. Congress. Rep. Mike Bost tells us about the push.
The fight to secure more truck parking spots across the nation just added some muscle thanks to two new bills in the U.S. Congress. Rep. Mike Bost tells us about the push.
Four data-monitoring firms express varying degrees of concern about the state of the spot market, which is critical to smaller operators and increasingly relied upon by larger fleets to fill certain freight lanes.
This year's truck show season gets off to a serious start beginning Thursday, as the 51st annual Mid-America Trucking Show opens at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
The Illinois Jaycees selected Buffalo Grove resident Kevin Sullivan and St. Charles resident Dr. Jacquie Cobb as honorees of its Outstanding Young Persons of Illinois awards program.
Longtime owner-operator Joe Bielucki was fuming mad when he read the email from his main customer's corporate logistics director.
The nomination of Julie Su to be secretary of labor has drawn some criticism, including from her home state of California. And one congressman is leading the charge. We’ll talk with U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley of California.
Freight companies are dialing back expectations that demand will recover strongly in the second half of the year amid growing economic uncertainty and signs retailers are growing more guarded about placing big orders in 2023.
Truck tonnage in February increased 2.3% compared with the same month in 2022, according to American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, marking the 18th straight year-over-year gain and the largest since October.
For January, the most recent month for which data is available, the TCI came in at -1.71, a significant improvement over December’s -6.1 and November’s -7.94.
The Port of Los Angeles reported that February volume—at 487,846 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units)—were down 43% compared to February 2022.