less-than-truckload News Updates

GovernmentBusinessLogistics

Census Bureau: Two Trucking Sectors Prospered During Pandemic

Freight forwarding and longhaul trucking for truckload experienced the highest business booms for revenue during the pandemic, a new U.S. Census Bureau transportation analysis shows.

September 29, 2023
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

NMFTA Developing API Road Map for LTL Shipment Data

The Digital LTL Council is developing a set of application programming interface standards covering the full life cycle of less-than-truckload shipments, from quote to cash.

September 18, 2023
BusinessTechnologyTCA

Flock Freight Scores $215 Million for Tech That Finds Available Space on Trucks

Flock Freight, an Encinitas, Calif., trucking logistics firm that aims to revolutionize the way freight moves across the country, has landed another $215 million in venture capital.

October 20, 2021
BusinessTop 100

TFI Buys Normandin Transit

TFI International purchased Normandin Transit, a provider of less-than-truckload and truckload freight services in the United States and Canada.

April 6, 2018
BusinessLogistics

Saia Continues Rapid Expansion With New Terminal in St. Louis Market

Saia Inc. opened a new terminal in St. Peters, Mo., about 35 miles west of St. Louis, the less-than-truckload carrier’s latest in a wave of expansion across the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast in 2017.

October 21, 2017
BusinessLogistics

LTL Sector Enjoys Fruitful 2017

Indications are that the truckload market is bouncing back from some rough conditions earlier this year, according to industry analysts at Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.

September 12, 2017
Business

LTLs Report Sizable Quarterly Profit Gains on Improved Rates, Rising Tonnage Levels

Four of the largest U.S. less-than-truckload operators improved profitability by 25% or more in the third quarter, powered by improved rates, carriers’ earnings reports showed last week.

November 3, 2014
Business

Higher LTL Profits Expected in 4Q, But Slower Growth in TL, Logistics

Most publicly traded less-than-truckload operators are likely to report improved results when fourth-quarter earnings reports begin this week, but profit growth in other sectors is expected to be slower, analysts predict.

January 20, 2014
Business

LTL Carrier Brandt Truck Line Shuts Doors

Brandt Truck Line, an 88-year-old less-than-truckload carrier based in Bloomington, Ill., shut its doors Tuesday, giving no prior notice.

March 24, 2011
Business

Changes in LTLs’ Vocabulary Illustrate Improving Business

Unfamiliar words such as “stability” and “price increases” are creeping into the less-than-truckload sector’s vocabulary these days, after a turbulent two years of rate cutting, market-share swings and some astronomical losses.

November 15, 2010