Canada’s Trimac Corp. could vanish from the Toronto Stock Exchange by Nov. 30 and become a privately held firm if a proposal from the company’s dominant McCaig family comes to pass.

A private equity fund partnership has completed $37 million of investment in same-day courier United Shipping & Technology, the holding company that owns Velocity Express.

A private equity fund partnership has completed $37 million of investment in same-day courier United Shipping & Technology, the holding company that owns Velocity Express.

The rise of online logistics services, driven by business-to-consumer electronic commerce, is headed for an inevitable plateau and probable shake-out, according to the chief information officer of Roadway Express.

Working hard and being smart is good, but not always enough. A company needs to have the luck of being in the right place at the right time.

Many of the nation’s largest shippers will oppose any government effort to mandate a fuel surcharge, according to the top lawyer of one of the most important shipper organizations in the country.

The rise of online logistics services, driven by business-to-consumer electronic commerce, is headed for an inevitable plateau and probable shake-out, according to the chief information officer of Roadway Express.

Shippers, carriers and logistics companies all claim to want long-term business relationships with each other. But somehow, the goal remains elusive as irritation and self-interest often manage to trump understanding and trust.

Representatives of shippers, carriers and logistics companies came together at the Nasstrac fall meeting to air out their needs, hopes and fears — both for themselves and for each other.

The owners of Schneider National think they are lucky enough to have a commodity that stock market investors want in abundance — public shares of their logistics division — and they think that now is the time to sell it.