Drayage capacity around the major gateways, per-diem and chassis disputes, intermodal rail transit, driver supply and the fuel line on every invoice.
A three-month hours-of-service waiver quietly loosens the rule diesel and gasoline carriers work under, timed to a fuel market under real strain.
A fuel-cell truck that was a Daimler-only project in January became an eight-company European hydrogen ecosystem by the time IAA Transportation opened this month.
The Association of American Railroads' latest weekly count shows carloads and intermodal both back in negative territory, with auto shipments down nearly 19% and grain up 17% — a split that says more about calendar noise than about the direction of the freight market.
Michael Rodgers picks up commercial strategy on top of technology just over three months after FedEx Freight began trading on its own — and less than two weeks after the executive who held the commercial seat was fired for a code-of-conduct violation.
Trading is expected to continue during an appeal, but the intermodal and brokerage giant now says it won't be current on its books until Q4 — and its stock has lost 18% of its value this year getting there.
Rival Class I railroads are using the STB's comment window to write themselves into a combined UP-NS network — and the asks go well beyond a courtesy interchange.
