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This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. Freight Waves. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. .

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This Week in Logistics: Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border

Freight Plus

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. Freight Waves. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. The United States - Mexico Cross border trucking and trade is a huge industry in which freight volumes are on the rise. .

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3 Important Freight Shipping Issues You Need to Know

Freight Center

Now, we’re counting down the remaining 3 important freight shipping issues you need to know as we move into the next decade. In recent years, the freight industry has seen an increase in shipping and the number of trucks on the road. The driver shortage was the top freight shipping industry concern for the third year in a row.

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Is the Freight Recession Really Over?

DAT Solutions

At the beginning of the year, DAT Pricing Analyst Mark Montague declared that the freight recession was over. Since then, we've been in the middle of what's traditionally been the slow season for freight. But compared to February of last year, there's been more than a 100% increase in freight on the spot market this month.

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Flatbed Markets Adjust to Holidays, Regulations, and Weather

DAT Solutions

And like the reefer and dry van segments, flatbed capacity has tightened after the ELD mandate went into effect. Flatbed freight out of Baltimore usually heads to the Northeast and Midwest, and the weather in those regions made those shipments more difficult. That pushed Baltimore rates up 10% higher last week as a result.

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Guest Post: Texas Now the Number 1 State for Refrigerated Freight Volume

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Texas is now the number one state for refrigerated freight volume on DAT Load Boards, surpassing California by a wide margin. state, there is a marked shift in demand for refrigerated equipment on the spot truckload freight market. While the total number of produce loads leaving California is still likely the highest of any U.S.

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Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B

Talking Logistics

If freight demand grows as it is projected to, the driver shortage could balloon to nearly 240,000 drivers by 2022.” And as the chart below from Wolfe Research shows (click to enlarge), shippers are seeing truckload capacity tightening, which will cause rates to rise. For more than five years, Jacob Babcock, of Pinedale, Wyo.,

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