SAN ANTONIO. W. M. “Rusty” Rush – chairman, CEO and president of Rush Enterprises – believes U.S. Class 8 sales are slowing and will continue to slow into 2016 as the freight markets keep softening. Yet he retains “all the confidence in the world” that trucking is not falling off…
David Congdon, chief executive of Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., has been selected by Fortune magazine as one of the world’s top 50 business people for 2015. Congdon was ranked 23rd on a list that includes the top executives at Apple, Facebook, Nike, Disney and Starbucks, as well as several…
SEATTLE, WA – The transportation technology company Zonar has hired Ian McKerlich as its chief strategy officer, responsible for developing corporate strategy and product delivery. According to the company, he has deep expertise in the analytics and mobile industries and over 20 years experience in leadership roles across a range…
Almost all of the goods we buy spend time in a truck before they get to us. And because store shelves are full and sales are strong, you might assume that the trucking industry is doing great. But trucking companies say they are critically short of drivers — and many…
I woke up driving an eighteen-wheeler 60 miles per hour through a field east of Amarillo, Texas. My partner was screaming as he bounced around in the back; he had just woken up, too. Everything in the truck rattled and shook. Baggage rained down on me from the upper bunk.…
United Parcel Service is straining to handle a surge in online sales that has resulted in more holiday volume than it had expected, causing a wave of disruptions that could spell trouble for the holiday season. On-time delivery rates for UPS ground packages based on their normal shipping transit times…
When Royal Jones started out driving a truck as an owner-operator in 1981, he averaged 5.5 miles per gallon. The next year, he bought a second truck and hired two drivers who together averaged 4 mpg, but he quickly realized his business was losing money every month. It was sink-or-swim…
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”…
