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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. The largest impacts start in the South and move their way up the US latitudinally – think Florida to Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to California to Washington to Oregon. What is produce season?

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Hanjin, Hurricanes, Harvests May Boost Truckload Rates

DAT Solutions

I’d advise shippers to not get complacent about transportation costs for the longer term, however. The Hanjin bankruptcy and the Chinese typhoon will cause some measure of disruption and delay to imported freight for the holidays, making California ports busier than usual, at a later point in the season.

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

Covering loads has been easy in the Northeast, except outbound South Texas, Southern California, and Florida as capacity out of these regions is tighter with produce heating up. Refrigerated outbound Midwest to California capacity is hard to find currently because of increased demand from reopened production and produce season.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

That is e specially the case for outbound freight in southern states and California where produce season is in full swing. . No issues cover ing loads throughout the market, except for outbound freight from California, South Texas, Georgia, and Florida to the N ortheast as capacity is tighter. California ? .

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The Best States to Buy a Car In!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Functional transportation is incredibly important for anyone, but it is also a very expensive risk. For instance, California is one of the worst places to buy a new car, and the taxes alone can shoot up into the thousands. – Idaho: $1,010/yr average. Here are several tips and pointers on how to keep the cost down!

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Logistics Market Stays Flat as May Begins

Zipline Logistics

This has especially been the case for Pacific N orth P lains and in outbound California refrigerated freight. . Rates for o utbound Midwest to California refrigerated freight have been climbing and getting tougher to cover. . California re frigerated freight is showing some signs of recove ring. California .

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CBD and Marijuana Logistics

Logichain Solutions

All this ambiguity and uncertainty makes trucking companies hesitant to transport bigger CBD quantities across state lines, especially after a truck driver transporting 7,000 pounds of industrial hemp from Oregon to Colorado got arrested in January 2019 by the Idaho State Police and charged with smuggling marijuana.