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FreightWaves NOW is your daily source for the most impactful news in logistics. We break down the complex world of freight—covering trucking, rail, air, and ocean markets—to bring you actionable insights. Whether you are a carrier, shipper, or broker, we provide the data-driven context you need to navigate a volatile market.
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Sep 1, 2023 • 10min
Top Story - What happens to the 22,000 union drivers that just lost their jobs?
Rachel Premack - Editorial Director - FreightWaves - New York, NY
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-teamsters-allowed-22000-union-jobs-to-vanish
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Aug 31, 2023 • 4min
Carrier Update - Lanes of the Day
Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves
Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves
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Aug 31, 2023 • 12min
Round Table - Would You Rather….
Kaylee Nix - Reporter - FreightWaves
Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves
Zach Strickland - Head of Market Intelligence - FreightWaves
Do we or don’t we - make Mexico safe again
Mexico averted a strike in which drivers wanted the country to make trucking safer. Would you rather`
Size Matters - small or large?]
Trucking is expanding much more so in the smaller 1-5 truck fleets than anywhere else - would you rather join a larger fleet or a smaller one?
Tear down that wall
The State of Arizona has had to pull down a container wall it paid 90M dollars to put up. Texas also has a container wall of only a few hundred yards - more symbolic than functional…would you rather
Squash the opposition or not!
Werner Trucking has a small department of it’s drivers form a union this month. If you are the CEO of Werner - would you rather….
Dogs or Tide?
As two Tennessee grads, if you could guarantee one thing by guaranteeing the opposite of the other….would you rather - Beat UGA or Alabama?
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Aug 31, 2023 • 7min
Small group at Werner trucking votes to unionize
John Kingston - Editor-At-Large - FreightWaves - Carle Place, NY
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-first-for-werner-small-group-of-workers-votes-to-unionize
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Aug 31, 2023 • 9min
Reaction to recent FMCSA requests for information or comment
Anne Reinke - President - TIA - Washington, DC
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-seeks-advice-on-new-safety-rules-for-carriers
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsas-erratic-history-on-mealrest-break-preemption
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-details-new-truck-driver-detention-time-survey
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Aug 31, 2023 • 5min
Carrier Update - Import volumes from China continue to climb
Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves
Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves
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Aug 31, 2023 • 9min
Politics, tech and autonomous trucks
Thomas Wasson - Loaded and Rolling Host - FreightWaves
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Aug 31, 2023 • 6min
Carrier Update - Rejection rates plummet in the Ontario market
Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves
Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves
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Aug 31, 2023 • 9min
How should brokerages and brokers work to gain market share as the freight economy returns?
Jason Provonsha - CEO - Steam Logistics - Chattanooga, TN
When we start seeing a positive turn in the economy, how are brokerages going to react to the prospect of picking up market share so that when things are running reasonably well again, there is greater chance for growth?
What's going to be the key to not losing market share from someone else?
Is there anything specific that individual freight brokers should be doing to capitalize on getting new business?
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Aug 31, 2023 • 5min
Carrier Update - Diesel fuel prices jump for a second day
Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves
Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves
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