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IMC Companies began as a regional drayage firm in Memphis 40 years ago. Since then, its leaders have developed a national network of drayage companies. IMC Companies leverages its companies’ local expertise, and has built a technology infrastructure that moves containers faster. IMC...
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Wednesday it plans to open its first transload facility on the West Coast. The new service is expected to improve inland intermodal service for its customers.
The company will use a 91,000-square-foot facility with 8 acres of parking, capable of holding 300 containers, to facilitate the service. The site will support drayage and transloading functions at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.
Inbound ocean containers will be directly loaded...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/jb-hunt-adds-transload-service-in-the-west
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Thursday that it has entered a long-term agreement to expedite the delivery of new intermodal containers as well the freight of its customers. A multivessel agreement with Swire Shipping Pte. is expected to provide an accelerated shipment option for the company’s customers that ship cargo from Asia to the U.S.
A pair of cargo ships named after J. B. Hunt’s founders, Johnnie Bryan “J.B.” and Johnelle are part of the fleet executing the deliveries. Cargo...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/jb-hunt-to-expedite-delivery-of-new-containers-customer-freight
On this date in 1956 the first commercially successful container ship began its maiden voyage on a route from New Jersey to Texas. The Ideal X and its 58 intermodal containers began a revolution in shipping that is still echoing around the world today.
Background
A McLean Trucking Company patch. (Photo: NC Historic Sites)Malcom P. McLean recognized the potential to haul motor freight when he was just a teenager. The native of Maxton, North Carolina, purchased his first truck in 1934 and began...
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Wednesday plans to grow its intermodal container fleet to 150,000 units over the next three to five years. The additional capacity would expand the fleet by more than 40% from the close of 2021. J.B. Hunt will also look to place additional chassis in service “based on market need.”
The purchasing plan is part of a joint initiative with BNSF Railway “to substantially improve capacity in the intermodal marketplace.”
J.B. Hunt (NASDAQ: JBHT) said the increases...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-to-expand-intermodal-container-fleet-by-40
Chart of the Week: Total Outbound Domestic Rail Container Volume (Loaded) – Los Angeles, Outbound Tender Volume Index, Ontario, Los Angeles SONAR: ORAILDOML.LAX, OTVI.ONT, OTVI.LAX
Truckload tender volumes have dropped approximately 11% over the past month out of Los Angeles while loaded domestic container shipments moving on the rail have increased 3%. It is somewhat normal for freight shipments to fade coming from Southern California this time of the year, but the extreme divergence between...
(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)J.B. Hunt Transport Services has started a transload service in the New York metro area. In a press release, the offering is touted as “a one-stop source for quickly transferring ocean freight into equipment for domestic transport.” The facility, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, was recently expanded to 25,000 square feet of space, is open 24/7 and includes on-site parking.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced Friday it has started a new transload service in New York amid the nation’s supply chain bottlenecks.
The New York metro area service will provide shippers with port drayage, transloading and linehaul service to inland destinations. The operation will be supported by a facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, which was recently expanded.
J.B. Hunt (NASDAQ: JBHT) began using 25,000 square feet of space at the site in October to launch the service. The 24/7...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/j-b-hunt-offering-transload-service-in-new-york-to-ease-congestion
In Part 1 of this article, an overview of how August Fruehauf began the Fruehauf Trailer Company was provided. In Part 2, information about the various types of trailers that Fruehauf pioneered are provided. FreightWaves Classics thanks Ruth Ann Fruehauf for her contributions, as well as the Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society for information and photographs that contributed to this article.
Different types of trailers
The following paragraphs provide information on the key types of trailers...
