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Business
Rates bucked seasonal trends second half of July
Part of the reason for seasonally nontypical pattern: shippers, brokers turned to the spot market to manage supply chain imbalances. Learn more here.
August 3, 2020
Business
Positive spot market signals, even with cloud of COVID case spikes in ag areas
Spot market rates for vans and reefers are higher than before the COVID-19 coronavirus hit the states. Learn more about the positive spot rates and trends here.
June 25, 2020
Channel 19
Let’s hear it for a good hand: Ben Kohler of Kohler Sawmill, Greenbrier, Tenn.
When a real pro shows up on-site with the equipment, and the know-how, to do the job right, as did Ben Kohler two days back in a volunteer tree-clearing effort here in Nashville. And: No injuries sustained in direct hit on Western Express terminal on the west side of town, CEO reports.
March 6, 2020
Voices
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
Southeast, Texas flatbed volumes looking better in the last week
Together, spot flatbed trends in the Southeast and Texas suggest better times ahead for carriers on the spot market. All in all, demand slipped nationally a bit for vans and reefers, while growing for flatbed. Market to watch: Vans and reefers from the Pacific Northwest.
September 19, 2019
Business
Next recession could hit as early as late 2016, say analysts
FTR Associates’ “state of freight” seminar/Q&A reflected readers’ recent suggestions that owner-operators ought to start the belt-tightening now to prepare for a cyclical economic downturn — starting as early as late 2016.
July 9, 2015
Business
Charity event to harvest timber after major Texas wildfire
The Logs to Lumber organization in Bastrop County, Texas, is holding the Lost Pines Log Pull charity event May 26-27 and seeks volunteer participants. The “Burned Forest Challenge” follows the Labor Day 2011 wildfires, the “largest wildfire in Texas history,” says area property owner Jamaica Morz, that destroyed 1,700 homes. To help citizens rebuild, the […]
May 18, 2012
Channel 19
4 State’s Bryan Martin on Joplin rebuilding efforts in All Drivers Together conference call
In a conference call last week put together by the All Drivers Together group, a collaboration of owner-operators and drivers opening up a free conference line to drivers and others in the trucking industry around the nation to network and share information toward industry betterment, 4 State Trucks’ Bryan Martin noted the shift in efforts […]
June 15, 2011
Channel 19
Trucking continues coming to Joplin aid
The stories about relief efforts in Joplin keep coming in. Before I get to a couple more, I thought I’d take a moment to note that I will be out of the office through June 7, though Channel 19 will continue to bring all manner of side routes and byways into the industry in my […]
May 27, 2011
Channel 19
Keys Truckers on Joplin relief mission; Open weather webinar tomorrow
Last time I saw Keys Truckers Jan (pictured, with Rocky) and James McCarter they were right here in Nashville for the grand reopening of the downtown TravelCenters of America location, which had been closed since the flooding last May. Today, the Keys sent word out I thought Midwest haulers may well be able to act […]
May 24, 2011
Channel 19
A message from Randall-Reilly president
The below comes from Overdrive and Truckers News publisher Randall-Reilly’s president and CEO Mike Reilly (pictured), a good man I’ve gotten to know over my years with the magazines. Thankfully, all Tuscaloosa- and other Southeast-based Randall-Reilly employees survived the storm. My thoughts continue to be with, as Mike well puts it, “many in our community […]
May 2, 2011
Channel 19
Nashville downtown TA back open after flooding
Since Feb. 3, haulers traversing the north side of Nashville’s downtown mini-loop coming from I-40 or I-24 West may have noticed a special postcard (pictured) delivered to them in the form of a billboard just ahead of the I-24/I-40 split. For nine months, the old TA billboard there displayed the message you see below, which […]
February 15, 2011
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