Weekly Market Update: The real cost of highway congestion

In the post-ELD Mandata era, the time available for drivers has become the primary factor in heavy vehicle productivity, and that time is increasingly impacted by traffic congestion.  Each year, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) provides insight into the trucking industry’s national, state, and metro area congestion cost trends based on vehicle operating costs,…

Dry Van Report: There’s some good news and some bad news for truckload carriers

According to Professor Jason Miller, a supply chain expert at Michigan State University, there’s some good and bad news for trucking companies based on the December data from the for-hire trucking ton-mile and revenue indexes (TTMI). December’s TTMI, based on output across 41 freight-generating industries, was down 0.1% from November, which is effectively unchanged sequentially.…