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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

As reported by Alexander Osipovich in the Wall Street Journal , “The first futures tied to the cost of trucking goods across the U.S. But as history has shown in the transportation industry, overcoming “the way we’ve always done things” is always the biggest obstacle. A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. Analysts at Stifel Inc. downgraded the stocks of four trucking companies earlier this week — USA Truck Inc., Hub Group Inc.,