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Friday, May 17, 2013

On Wednesday, May 22, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the recently announced nomination of Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Anthony Foxx to be Secretary of Transportation.

The pending changes in truck driver hours-of-service (HOS) regulations will help drive trucking rates up between 4 and 10 percent in the coming year, analysts and trucking executives predict.

Carload volume—at 280,986—was up 0.6 percent annually, and intermodal—at 248,266 trailers and containers—was up 3.9 percent.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Join Peerless Media’s Group Editorial Director Michael Levans as he gathers five top supply chain management software and technology analysts to attempt to answer that pressing question and share insight into some of hottest technologies and trends that are driving logistics transformation.

Service diversions for the two largest ports continue to play out in monthly statistics.

You can modify your fuel surcharge in one of three ways to try to reduce total costs. Which of these common tactics can actually achieve that goal? New research provides the answer. Discover how changing fuel surcharge variables really impact your overall costs. Get a complimentary copy of the white paper.

ABF Freight System, the nation’s sixth-largest LTL carrier, has a framework for a new five-year labor agreement with the Teamsters union. Neither side is discussing details of the deal, which still must be ratified by between 6,000 and 7,500 ABF workers.

This legislation provides critical flood protection for communities across the country, maintains the flow of commerce, and will create up to 500,000 new jobs, according to the Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Practical advice from 20 manufacturing experts. We asked manufacturers from around the world, what advice would you give peers to better manage the sales quotation process? Find out what they said.

A balanced United States transportation market has been highlighted fairly often of late. But since 2009 business activity has continued to increase and been steady while capacity has not changed materially.