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POLL: Have you hauled in direct support of a natural-disaster relief/recovery effort?
What’s been your experience, such as it may be, hauling in support of immediate relief/recovery, and/or rebuild well after the fact, efforts after a natural disaster, whether a hurricane, flood, fire or another.
October 9, 2019
Business
Rates and volumes way up in the spot market
Any owner-operators shutting down this week in protest of the electronic logging device mandate might have missed some of the best freight and rate conditions on the spot market that have been seen in the past several years. Updates for dry van, flatbed, based on last week’s data.
October 6, 2017
Business
Spot update shows high demand across the country — vans, flats in detail, disaster-relief opportunities, more
Freight lanes re-orient North-South as demand picture shifts for dry vans. Some platform opportunity exists, notes FEMA contractor Foxhole Logistics, and in general terms the typical late-September-beginning fall freight season may be getting an early start.
September 14, 2017
Business
Hurricane recovery, ELD mandate could squeeze trucking capacity, boost rates
Hurricane recovery efforts will increase freight demand, which will pull trucks out of their normal cycle. That shift in freight patterns combined with the crimp of productivity likely associated with the coming electronic logging device mandate deadline could prompt a capacity crisis.
September 13, 2017
Business
Storms update: Florida suspends trucking regs ahead of Irma, Houston ports and major fuel pipeline reopen
Though the effects of Hurricane Harvey’s recent onslaught of Southeast Texas remain well in focus, another major hurricane is barreling down on the U.S., prompting Florida to extend trucking regulations ahead of Irma’s likely weekend landfall.
September 5, 2017
Voices
Long Sandy night: Holding the fort in Northeast as storm comes in
Drivers react to conditions as Hurricane Sandy made landfall and continued inland.
October 31, 2012
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