Flight and voice recorder data released by NTSB show the Amazon-contracted Boeing 767 landed roughly 4,000 feet down a 9,360-foot runway, attempted a late go-around, and still couldn't stop before killing five people on the ground.
The government's own weekly benchmark jumped 36.8 cents in a single week to a record $5.967, and AAA's daily tracker shows the price still climbing past $5.97 as of Sept. 10.
AAR's week-ending-Sept.-5 traffic report shows total U.S. rail volume up 13.8% year over year, but the growth is lopsided — intermodal is outrunning carload by a wide margin while coal keeps sliding.
Five new proclamations replace the 50% Canadian dairy and alcohol duty with a flat ban, and the GSA is stripping an estimated $50 billion in Canadian-origin goods from federal purchasing schedules.
ABF Freight's tonnage grew 9% in August entirely on bigger shipments, not more of them, while ArcBest's asset-light brokerage unit posted 26% revenue growth on flat shipment counts — two segments pointing to the same price-led story.
| Lane | Rate | Change |
|---|---|---|
| WTI CRUDE /BBL | 91.48 | ▲5.1 |
| DIESEL USWC /GAL | 6.50 | ▲1.4 |
| OCEAN FREIGHT INDEX | 526.9 | ▲4.5 |
| TRUCKLOAD INDEX | 195.6 | ▼1.3 |
| RAIL INTERMODAL UNITS | 1.24M | ▲0.6 |
| TRUCK TONNAGE INDEX | 113.3 | ▲0.4 |
| CHINA IMPORTS | $27.1B | ▲7.6 |
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