Category: Management

Truckworx Kenworth Receives Prestigious 2023 Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award

Truckworx Kenworth Receives Prestigious 2023 Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award

| February 16, 2024

Dealer Meeting Kicks Off with the Theme: Charging Ahead Truckworx Kenworth received the prestigious 2023 Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award for the United States and Canada at the recent annual Kenworth Dealer Meeting in Ojai, California. The meeting’s theme was “Charging Ahead” and focused on technician training and connected services as pathways to provide […]

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C.H. ROBINSON AUTOMATES A TASK THE FREIGHT INDUSTRY DOES 1 BILLION TIMES A YEAR

C.H. ROBINSON AUTOMATES A TASK THE FREIGHT INDUSTRY DOES 1 BILLION TIMES A YEAR

| February 16, 2024

 New tech for touchless appointments is a breakthrough for supply chain efficiency,  while saving shippers time and money Global logistics company C.H. Robinson has developed new technology that creates a major efficiency in freight shipping: removing the work of scheduling an appointment at the place a load needs to be picked up and scheduling another […]

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DAT Truckload Volume Index: January cold snap leads to spot-market surge

DAT Truckload Volume Index: January cold snap leads to spot-market surge

| February 15, 2024

“Winter weather increased the need for trucks at a time when shippers were moving holiday returns and springtime retail goods through supply chains, and for-hire carriers were rejecting a higher percentage of contracted loads,” said Ken Adamo, DAT Chief of Analytics. A weather-related bump in demand for truckload capacity pushed spot freight volumes to all-time […]

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ATRI RELEASES ANNUAL LIST OF TOP 100 TRUCK BOTTLENECKS

ATRI RELEASES ANNUAL LIST OF TOP 100 TRUCK BOTTLENECKS

| February 14, 2024

For the sixth year in a row, the intersection of I-95 and SR 4 in Fort Lee, New Jersey is once again the Number One freight bottleneck in the country  The American Transportation Research Institute released its 13th annual list highlighting the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in America. The 2024 Top Truck Bottleneck List measures the level of truck-involved […]

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Mack Invests $14.5 Million in Roanoke Valley Operations Expansion

Mack Invests $14.5 Million in Roanoke Valley Operations Expansion

| February 14, 2024

Expansion plan for manufacturing facility in Virginia to prepare the plant for higher demand for the Mack® MD Series and Mack MD Electric vehicles Mack Trucks is investing $14.5 million to expand its Roanoke Valley Operations (RVO) manufacturing facility in Virginia to prepare the plant for higher demand for the Mack® MD Series and Mack […]

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Forward Air Amends Agreement to Acquire Omni Logistics

Forward Air Amends Agreement to Acquire Omni Logistics

| February 13, 2024

This agreement ends the litigation between the parties, which will now be dismissed Forward Air announced an agreement with Omni Logistics, LLC (“Omni”), a private company that is majority owned by Ridgemont Equity Partners (“Ridgemont”) and EVE Partners, LLC (“EVE”), to amend the terms of the existing merger agreement relating to their previously announced acquisition. […]

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