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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

Business, Logistics

How to Become a Freight Broker

Freight brokers use their expertise and relationships to help shippers find available carriers, saving shippers time and money and helping carriers more easily connect to shippers.

April 8, 2024

QuickBooks for Trucking: Connecting QuickBooks to Your TMS

Learn how Truckbase connects QuickBooks for trucking and your TMS to help you marry your trucking-specific data in your TMS with your financial data in QuickBooks.

Business, Technology, Safety

The Safer Route Forward

Program Airs: May 23, 2 p.m. ET For modern transportation companies, commercial vehicle navigation is more than just a nice-to-have – it’s an essential tool for keeping your drivers safe. Join Trimble’s Dwayne Lazarre as he walks you through how truck-specific routing guides your fleet through the unexpected – from weather to work zones (and nearly everything in between).

May 23, 2024
Business, Logistics

How to Combat Rising Insurance Costs

The rising costs of fuel, equipment, insurance and more weigh heavily upon the freight transportation industry. In fact, the cost of small claims has grown significantly as the prices for parts and labor, as well as new technology, has risen. Recouping your claims - from filing and acknowledgement to investigation and settlement - can exhaust more time and money than you can afford. Instead of a game of telephone, what if your service provider managed each step of the process from claim to settlement and offered you a single touchpoint for all your questions? Chas Nickells, Vice President of Business Development for Transportation at Davies Group, joins Seth Clevenger to share his decades of experience creating custom claims solutions for industry leaders and teach you how end-to-end claims solutions can transform your operations. 

May 16, 2024
Business

How to Combat Rising Insurance Costs

Program Airs: May 16, 2 p.m. ET Recouping your claims - from filing and acknowledgement to investigation and settlement - can exhaust more time and money than you can afford. Instead of a game of telephone, what if your service provider managed each step of the process from claim to settlement and offered you a single touchpoint for all your questions? Chas Nickells, Vice President of Business Development for Transportation at Davies Group, joins Seth Clevenger to share his decades of experience creating custom claims solutions for industry leaders and teach you how end-to-end claims solutions can transform your operations.   

May 16, 2024
Business, Technology

ROTATE - Learning Sessions for Equipment and Maintenance Executives

Join us for conversations that will help you ensure your fleet and your trucks put their best foot forward with the right tire management strategy.

April 30, 2024
Business, Fuel

Finnish Fuel Maker Neste Starts CEO Search as Lehmus to Exit

Neste Oyj, a Finnish maker of renewable diesel, will begin a search for a new CEO, as Matti Lehmus stepped down after just two years in the role.

Kati Pohjanpalo | Bloomberg News
April 29, 2024
Business, Technology, Safety, Autonomous

Tesla Stock Leaps on Reports of Chinese Approval of FSD

NEW YORK — Shares of Tesla stock rallied April 29 after CEO Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to Beijing over the weekend and reportedly won tentative approval for its driving software.

April 29, 2024
Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

Peterbilt Introduces Additional Mirrors for 579, 567 Models

Peterbilt is set to offer digital vision system-mirrors for its Models 579 and 567, and the truck maker expects to improve truck drivers’ visibility options and safety, it said.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
April 29, 2024
Government, Business, Logistics

Kansas Gains $76.5 Million Window, Door Maker Logistics Hub

The Marvin Cos. plans to build a $76.5 million window and door manufacturing facility in Kansas City, Kan., that will boast 600 employees, including truck drivers, within four years.

Noël Fletcher | Staff Reporter
April 29, 2024
Business

Aim Transportation Expands Into West Virginia, Indiana

Aim Transportation Solutions expanded its operations to meet the needs of customers in West Virginia and Indiana, the company announced April 26.

Connor D. Wolf | Staff Reporter
April 29, 2024