LOWELL, Ark. (AP) – J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. has announced plans to add employees and expand its corporate headquarters in Lowell. Gov. Asa Hutchinson and J.B. Hunt CEO John Roberts joined in the announcement Wednesday. The company plans a new 133,000-square-foot central office building that is scheduled to open…
The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index rose 0.5% in October from the same month last year, just 0.2% below the record, DOT said Dec. 9. October’s reading of 123.2 just shy of the of 123.5 set in November 2014. DOT uses a baseline reading of 100 from the…
Amazon goes to great lengths to get packages into customers’ hands as quickly as possible — even if it means employing drones. Those efforts will now include putting thousands of Amazon-branded trucks on the road. The ever-ambitious online retailer planned to announce on Friday morning that it had purchased “thousands”…
WASHINGTON — Congress has given the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration a tight timeframe for removing from public view CSA information regarding carrier alerts or percentile rankings. Lawmakers ordered the scores and rankings to be removed from public view the day after the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act becomes…
The telematics business model in the trucking industry is evolving quickly to one where motor carriers may share a percentage of monies generated or saved via telematics with their systems providers – especially if those providers are truck OEMs. That’s the view of Sandeep Kar (seen at right), group VP…
SEATTLE, Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Lynden International, a full-service freight forwarding and logistics company, announces the appointment of John Kaloper as President. Kaloper succeeds David Richardson who retired Nov. 30 after 35 years with Lynden. Kaloper began his career with Lynden International in 1984 as an account executive in…
The 2015 Pain in the (Supply) Chain survey recently conducted by UPScoincided this year with qualitative interviews of healthcare executives in North America to gain further insights into trends, challenges and opportunities having an impact on healthcare logistics. Among the findings was that healthcare companies have made significant strides in…
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate have reached agreement on a 5-year, $281 billion transportation bill that would increase spending to address the nation’s aging and congested highways and transit systems — a legislative feat that lawmakers and President Barack Obama have struggled throughout his entire administration to achieve. The…
The U.S. Department of Transportation published Nov. 30 a Final Rule that sets up new fines for carriers, brokers, shippers and others for pressuring truck drivers to operate outside of federal safety regulations. Such coercive acts generally come in the form of threatening truck drivers with fewer miles, fewer loads…
