A freight shipment is defined as material or equipment that is crated or palletized. It is further classified as ground freight or air freight. It can also be separated as domestic or international ...

Traditionally speaking, a freight forwarder is a company that receives and ships goods on behalf of other companies. The official U.S. definition of the term "freight forwarder" is a "person holding ...

Stubbornly weak freight market conditions have been placing financial strain on third-party logistics companies for the past couple of years with an oversupply of truck capacity driving down rates and ...

Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low on feed, which should have been ...

Less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers play a critical role in logistics. They efficiently move goods from various locations to destinations, often through a network of terminals and hubs. LTL trucking ...

Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The job of a freight broker is to connect shippers who have goods to transport and carriers who have the capacity to move those goods.

Look for 2025 to be a year for moderate improvements in freight rates and more stable diesel prices, predict the analyst at FTR Freight Intelligence. In a January 9 webinar, FTR VP of Trucking Avery ...