Logistics Services News Archive
Weber Distribution Changes Name to Weber Logistics
Weber, a national 3PL, will continue to offer the same menu of supply chain services to its customers...
Con-way Freight Expands San Antonio Operations
Con-way's new freight operations Center will double local capacity in the San Antonio area and will create over 50 jobs...
Schneider Earns Certification in Disaster Prevention
Schneider National has strengthened its disaster prevention and recovery capabilities through participation in the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) Master Business Continuity Professional certification program...
FedEx Freight Canada Enhances Cross-Border Service
FedEx Freight Canada has reduced transit times in more than 500 lanes connecting Toronto and Montreal to dozens of cities and regions in the United States...
Freight Quote Marketplace Launches in the Cloud
GR8FR8.com is a new online marketplace and cloud-based software that gives shippers a way to centralize freight quotes and manage shipments from origin to destination...
Schneider Tanker Division Increases Owner-Operator Compensation
Tanker owner-operators will earn $1.05 per mile beginning in December....
UPS Freight Improves U.S.-Canada Transit Times
UPS Freight has accelerated transit times on 150 U.S.-Canada lanes...
Walgreens Leases Distribution Space in Pennsylvania from ProLogis
ProLogis will lease 510,000 square feet and develop a 135,000-square-foot building expansion for national drugstore retailer...
Fast Lane Offers Overnight Load Storage
New service will offer truckers, freight forwarders and shipping lines short-term secured storage near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach...
FedEx Expects an 11 Percent Increase on Its Busiest Day
FedEx expects more than 223 million shipments will move through its networks during the holidays...
Mallory Alexander Acquires Tradesource
Mallory Alexander International Logistics has expanded its 3PL operations by acquiring Tradesource Inc. from Atlantic Services Group...
Purolator USA Launches Express Delivery Service to Canada
New service will offer New York area businesses more overnight delivery options to Canada...
U.S. Xpress Opens Terminal in Pennsylvania
New full-service terminal could result in as many as 100 new jobs between maintenance and office personnel...
Horizon Lines Launches Weekly Asia Liner Service
Horizon Lines plans to add approximately 12,500 new containers to its international and domestic shipping network to support existing customers and the carrier's new Asia liner service...
XTRA Offers Free Trailers to Westbound Shippers
XTRA Lease is offering to let fleets and shippers who pick up a rental trailer from an east or southeast branch use the trailer free for up to 30 days, as long as they drop it off at a branch in California...
Tiger II Program Awards $316 Million for Freight Projects
The U.S. DOT has awarded an additional $600 million in grants through its TIGER program, with more than half of that amount going to freight-related projects...
Dow Jones Launches Supply Chain Risk Service
Dow Jones has introduced a service designed to provide ongoing, active monitoring of a range of supply chain risks, including supplier failure, supply continuity, political exposure, reputation management, product safety, plant and port closures, and staffing disruptions...
BNSF to Build New Intermodal Facility in Kansas City
BNSF’s new 443-acre intermodal facility will feature wide-span electric cranes and automatic gate systems to speed up the movement of traffic entering and departing the facility...
Qualcomm and RAIR Collaborate on HOS Compliance Service
The collaboration aims to provide greater visibility, improved auditing and enhanced hours of service reporting...
VMT Fee Recommended to Replace Gas Tax
A national panel of transportation experts has recommended that Congress should enact a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee to replace per-gallon fuel taxes....
UPS Adds 130 Hybrid Electric Vehicles
UPS has purchased 130 next generation hybrid electric vehicles, and plans to deploy them in 2011, with 30 going to New York and New Jersey and 100 to California...
UPS and ABF Increase LTL Rates
Both UPS Freight and ABF are raising their LTL rates by 5.9 percent this month...
FedEx Freight Hikes Rates Nearly 7 Percent
As of November 1, FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL will increase their general rates by 6.9 percent...
Derby Industries Changes Name to Derby Supply Chain Solutions
3PL Derby Industries has changed its name to Derby Supply Chain Solutions...
FedEx Freight Will Lay Off 1,700 Employees
FedEx plans to combine its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL operations as of January 30, 2011, a move that will result in the layoff of approximately 1,700 full-time employees and the shuttering of roughly 100 facilities...
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