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Roadrunner’s latest lanes add over 21,000 new miles of coverage across the U.S. and Canada and establish Kansas City as a major new hub, the company said July 24.

“We’re most affected by the [tariff] instability in our industrial truckload base in the U.S.,” TFI CEO Alain Bédard said during a July 28 conference call with investors.

The less-than-truckload carrier now has 35 service centers across its geographic footprint.

“Customers who want to begin using the new classes now are welcome and encouraged to do so; there is no requirement to wait until Dec. 1,” the company told Transport Topics.

The Cookeville, Tenn.-based transportation and logistics company said these regional drivers saw their compensation increase to 64 cents per mile.

A Queens, N.Y.-based building firm, Kordun Construction, bought the most expensive property of the four — a Plainview, N.Y., service center — for $4 million.

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association is moving toward a density-based freight classification system in a major update that is set to go into effect July 19.

The sale of the properties follows the disposal of seven facilities via private sale in May as the administrators attempt to unload as many terminals as possible.

Estes Express Lines is boosting its terminal capacity as it incorporates assets acquired from bankrupt motor carrier Yellow, President and Chief Operating Officer Webb Estes said.

To take full advantage, 3PLs must forge better relationships with less-than-truckload and last-mile carriers among other tweaks to their business activities, CSCMP's report said.