We continue to read and hear that this winter may be the most frustrating shippers have experienced in several years. Capacity issues and higher spot market rates are expected to continue into the new year. And with the higher spot markets, we can expect to see contract rates follow the same path. As might be […]

Last week, a confidential source leaked the fact that one of the latest U.S. demands in the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations was the prevention of long-haul Mexican truckers from operating in the United States. In early 2015, then Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced that after years of debate and controversy, Mexican […]

Although we have heard and read about a shortage of over-the-road (OTR) drivers for several years, the recession and slow recovery have minimized the problem somewhat. The situation is changing quickly however, and at the recent management conference of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), the driver shortage was once again identified as the most critical […]