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by Tom Moore on Jan 29, 2018 7:00:00 PM
Truck shortages are old and, unfortunately, recurring news. To add insult to the incremental cost that shippers are paying to hire a truck on the spot market, gains in oil prices seem to be accelerating. On Friday, as I write this, oil is over $66! ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 26, 2017 7:00:00 PM
With the reconstituting of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the stupid Joint Employment rules which had pushed the responsibility for a 3PL’s actions onto the company that hires said 3PL. You can read the summary. But, as the headline ...
by Tom Moore on Dec 14, 2017 9:38:00 PM
The White House is putting the finishing touches on a plan to direct federal spending of $200 billion or more – funds it would propose to offset with cuts elsewhere in the federal budget – to leverage hundreds of billions more from local governments ...
by Tom Moore on Nov 20, 2017 7:00:00 PM
Here is what I said last month….”The flow of containers from Asia is likely to get more expensive.” Now comes evidence of a potential countervailing force…lots of Mega-container ships are coming online soon. COSCO, the fourth largest shipping ...
by Tom Moore on Oct 30, 2017 8:00:00 PM
Canadian National Railway (CN) and Norfolk Southern (NS) strike a joint-service deal to avoid… Canadian National Railway (CN) and Norfolk Southern (NS) strike a joint-service deal to avoid Chicago’s congestion. They will do their train interchanges ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 18, 2017 8:00:00 PM
Truckers tell us that Homeland Security is paying at least $4 per mile for loads into Florida. The problem for carriers is that these loads are “really last minute." If you win the auction, there is no certainty that the load will actually go. With ...
by Tom Moore on Sep 13, 2017 9:27:00 PM
There will be fewer truck drivers and warehouse workers available once storm cleanup gets underway. There is already a perceived shortage of construction workers in the South, and it will only get worse as skilled and unskilled labor pours in to fix ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 26, 2017 9:13:00 PM
In exchange for better insurance rates, trucking companies are adding cameras to truck cabs. Insurance rates for commercial vehicles are on the rise. Estes says they are up 20% in 2 years. Driven by “nuclear judgments” – penalties that sometimes run ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 19, 2017 8:00:00 PM
“Circle January 2020 on your calendar for what could be a major disruption to the energy market and a jolt to the global economy” was the lead sentence in the Wall Street Journal. “Circle January 2020 on your calendar for what could be a major ...
by Tom Moore on Jun 16, 2017 4:45:00 PM
New pipeline adds to rail and ocean tanker woes...Bulk transportation rates will go down. Energy Transfer Partners started moving oil through the much disputed but now completed Dakota Access Pipeline. Capable of moving 450,000 barrels a day, it ...
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