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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.

Business

Finally! A Fixed-Cost Lease Solution for your Fleet

Whether adding or replacing trucks in your fleet, finding the most cost-effective solution is critical to the profitability and success of your business. Variable costs like fuel, tires, and maintenance represent a staggering amount of the expenses in a transportation business. 

June 21, 2024
Business, For-Hire, Top 100

A. Duie Pyle Celebrates Centennial Milestone

From the Great Depression to industry deregulation and beyond, A. Duie Pyle has kept trucking, marking a full century of economic cycles and transformations in freight transportation.

June 21, 2024
Business, For-Hire, Top 100

Industry Sector Rankings Reflect Market Downturn

For-hire carriers across segments saw revenues slide and margins tighten in 2023, but some industry sectors fared better than others.

June 21, 2024
Business, For-Hire, Top 100

Freight Recession Squeezes Top 100 For-Hire Carriers

Soft market conditions in 2023 placed financial strain on many of the largest for-hire trucking companies in North America. 

June 21, 2024
Business, For-Hire, Top 100

Fleets Persevere Through Down Market With Care and Creativity

The largest for-hire carriers have persevered through a down market with care for their customers and close attention to controlling costs.

June 21, 2024
Government, Business, Fuel

LNG Export Project at Center of Firestorm Set for Vote

Federal regulators are set to decide the fate of a long-stalled natural gas export project that has been at the center of a political firestorm over climate change and energy policy.

June 21, 2024
Business, Technology, Equipment

VTNA Debuts VNL Electric in Evolution of Class 8 Flagship

DUBLIN, Va. — Volvo Trucks North America provided a first glimpse of the next configuration of its flagship Class 8 VNL tractor — a VNL 440 Electric — during a media event at its customers center.

June 21, 2024
Government, Business, Technology

60 Seconds: FHWA Chief Endorses Benefits of Transportation Technologies

Federal Highway Administration leader Shailen Bhatt pressed federal lawmakers to consider a vast portfolio of applications designed to enhance safety along commercial and passenger corridors

June 20, 2024
Government, Business, Logistics

Congress Debates FY25 NDAA

A comprehensive defense policy measure recently approved in the House of Representatives proposes security enhancements for trucks at military bases and a review of a new moving contract.

June 20, 2024
Government, Business, Safety

Motor Carriers Not Quick to Enroll in Apprenticeship Program

In 2022, some in trucking hoped that a pilot to teach and monitor 18- to 20-year-olds in interstate commerce could help lessen the driver shortage. Now it’s not looking that way.

June 20, 2024