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What a fleet or driver should expect running FEMA loads

Pallets of supplies ranging from generators, bottled water, to MREs 

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This article was originally published on freightwaves.com in 2017 in reaction to Hurricane Harvey....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2017/8/27/what-to-expect-with-fema

Marine Projects Vessel News Roundup | October 20 – US Army lock maintenance workboats, electric dredgers for Brazil and more

Delivered vessels include a turbine installation platform for a Chinese operator, an electric dredger for a Brazilian mining company, and a lock maintenance workboat for ..

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Trucking comes to the rescue during hurricanes

This story was originally published on August 26, 2017, but has been updated for the 2022 hurricane season.

In 2003, I got caught in the middle of a hurricane. But it wasn’t the high winds and water that I faced, it was the surge of truckloads that my startup on-demand trucking division received.

My small but agile team of 11 made up the on-demand provider of US Xpress, known as Xpress Direct. We were set up to handle the spot on-demand capacity needs for major shippers, brokers, and airfreight...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2017/8/25/trucking-comes-to-the-rescue