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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Freight railways pushed to streamline their operations and improve their profit margins. Critics say the approach left the system stretched thin. The freight rail industry reinvented itself through ...

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 ...

AI-driven digital freight matching platforms are transforming the brokerage landscape, helping shippers and carriers automate workflows, boost utilization, and navigate the lingering freight recession ...

Philip Laird owns shares in some transport companies and has received funding from two rail-related CRCs as well as the ARC. He is affiliated, inter alia, with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and ...