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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
Spot market update — van, reefer transitional period, and a few hot markets
Midwest writ large is trending up, the Southeast down, with the exception of lanes into Louisiana. Increases were dramatic on lanes into the Shreveport market, which includes Alexandria, La. Ensler Field outside Alexandria is one of the staging areas for FEMA.
August 25, 2016
Business
Truckers bracing for Hurricane Joaquin can rest a little easier
Most recent forecasts suggest the storm will not make U.S. landfall. At once, persistent rain expected over the Southeast has the region under widespread flood watches that extend up the Atlantic coast.
October 2, 2015
Business
Floods, bad weather pushed freight availability down in April
Freight volumes on the spot market were down — out of trend — 16 percent in April of this year from April 2012, according to the DAT North American Freight Index, which says that bad weather — like floods in the Midwest — could have been one of the driving forces in the decline. According […]
May 15, 2013
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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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