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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

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American Airlines to Drop Flights to 15 Cities in October

American Airlines will drop flights to 15 smaller U.S. cities in October when a federal requirement to serve those communities ends.

August 20, 2020
BusinessEquipment

Equipment Finance Leaders Report Improved Confidence

Confidence in the equipment finance market rose in August, according to the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation.

August 20, 2020
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

Uber, Lyft Win Delay on Converting Drivers to Employees

Uber and Lyft were spared from having to rapidly convert their California drivers to employees after an appeals court agreed they can keep their business models in place while challenging a judge’s order to comply with a state labor law.

August 20, 2020
BusinessEquipmentTop 100

Day & Ross Continues Growth Plan by Expanding Into Ohio

Day & Ross detailed the potential next steps of its multiyear expansion plan amid the completion of a new facility Aug. 19.

August 20, 2020
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsTCA

Volvo Trucks Partners With India’s Delhivery for Express Operations

Logistics company Delhivery and Volvo Trucks have joined hands to test and deploy a new transport solution for express operations that will help address the challenges in speedy delivery and cost efficiencies of services.

August 20, 2020
BusinessTechnologyFuel

ACT Virtual Series Highlights Environmental Sustainability Challenges

Advanced Clean Transportation on Aug. 18 kicked off a four-month series to discuss environmental sustainability in trucking and the challenges those efforts still face.

August 20, 2020
BusinessLogistics

ATA Expands With Moving and Storage Conference, Council

Stakeholders from the moving and storage industries have been made part of two groups that American Trucking Associations’ executive committee recently voted to create.

August 20, 2020
BusinessLogistics

UPS, FedEx Out to Prove They Can Profit in Holiday Season

UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp., riding high from record package deliveries amid the coronavirus pandemic, are moving on to their next objective: showing investors they can boost profit in the approaching onslaught of the holidays.

August 20, 2020
GovernmentBusinessSafety

Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Increase to More Than 1 Million

Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly increased last week, a stumble for the labor market in its long road to recovery.

August 20, 2020
GovernmentBusinessLogisticsBreaking News

IMCC Files Claim Against OCEMA, Ocean Carriers

American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference on Aug. 17 filed a complaint against the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association and 11 international ocean carriers alleging conduct that violates the Shipping Act, charging they inflated prices in the intermodal chassis market at dozens of ports across the country.

August 20, 2020