Less than truckload freight

How nearshoring is unlocking growth opportunities for LTL industry

China has long been considered “the world’s factory,” offering Western manufacturers inexpensive, skilled labor and robust supply chain infrastructure. Pandemic-fueled production and shipping delays — combined with rising labor costs and geopolitical tensions across the globe — have undercut those benefits in recent years. As a result, more and more companies are moving their manufacturing operations to North America.

“The global logistics landscape is rapidly changing, and supply chain...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-nearshoring-is-unlocking-growth-opportunities-for-ltl-industry

FreightWaves Classics: PITT OHIO has achieved much in the past 40 years

A PITT OHIO tractor-trailer leave on a run. (Photo: PITT EXPRESS)

Background

Charles Hammel, Sr. founded Hammel’s Express in 1919 with a horse, a buggy and one customer. His son, Charles Hammel, Jr., continued in the family business beginning in the 1940s. The company founded by his grandfather and continued by his father was where Charles (Chuck) Hammel, III began to learn about and began to love the transportation industry.

Chuck, Bob and Ken, the three sons of Charles Hammel, Jr., purchased three trucks and leased a small, one-door warehouse in East...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-pitt-ohio-has-achieved-much-in-the-past-40-years

FreightWaves Classics: Evans Delivery has grown from its first two trucks

The Evans Network of Companies logo. (Image: Evens Network of Companies)

Overview 

Evans Delivery Co. was founded by Albert L. Evans, Sr. in 1939. His company began with two trucks handling less-than-truckload (LTL) freight in and around Pottsville, Pennsylvania, which is now about two hours northwest of Philadelphia. 

The company continued to grow in the regional LTL market and gradually expanded its operational area throughout Pennsylvania, as well as into New Jersey, New York and Maryland. In 1973, Evans Delivery began intermodal services to serve the steamship...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-evans-delivery-has-grown-from-its-first-two-trucks

FreightWaves Classics: Estes has hauled freight for more than 90 years

An Estes truck and trailer roll onward. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Estes Express Lines is the largest privately owned freight shipping company in North America.

Estes has provided shipping solutions to its customers since its founding in 1931. Over the decades its leaders and employees have built a “robust transportation network, a reputation for dependability, and an award-winning safety record.”

Estes is an asset-based freight transportation and custom logistics solutions provider. Its fleet contains more than 7,000 tractors and 30,000 trailers; it also has...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-estes-has-hauled-freight-for-more-than-90-years

Why I believe a freight recession is imminent

Trucks at a dock. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Last week, I published an article entitled “Just 3 years after 2019’s trucking bloodbath, another is on the way.”

For anyone who lived through the trucking debacle of 2019 – when carrier after carrier suddenly shut their doors – the thought of experiencing that again is truly frightening. After all, we lost some very large carriers during that period , including Celadon, Falcon and NEMF, just to name a few. In addition, we lost thousands of small and mid-sized trucking companies. In addition,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-i-believe-a-freight-recession-is-imminent

FreightWaves Classics: A. Duie Pyle has been delivering service for nearly 100 years

An A. Duie Pyle moving truck from early in the company's history. (Photo: aduiepyle.com)
Alexander Duie Pyle and his wife Mary Ellen. (Photo: aduiepyle.com)Alexander Duie Pyle and his wife Mary Ellen. (Photo: aduiepyle.com)

In 1924, Alexander Duie Pyle worked for Lukens Steel in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. But he wanted to own his own business, so he purchased two trucks and began A. Duie Pyle, a trucking company. Lukens Steel (now part of ArcelorMittal), his former employer, became Pyle’s first customer (a relationship that lasted more than 90 years). 

Nearly 100 years later, A. Duie Pyle, Inc. is one of the largest trucking companies in the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-a-duie-pyle-has-been-delivering-service-for-nearly-100-years

FreightWaves Haul of Fame: New Penn is a long-time Northeastern LTL

New Penn trucks at a dock. (Photo: New Penn)

On July 8, 2019 FreightWaves’ Mark Solomon reported that New Penn Motor Express (“New Penn”), one of three U.S.-based regional less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers controlled by YRC Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:YRCW), that it would close its corporate offices in Lebanon, Pennsylvania after 88 years, and consolidate operations there with YRC’s Field Resource Center at the parent’s Overland Park, Kansas headquarters.

Prior to that announcement, what was the company’s history for the 88 years leading up...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-haul-of-fame-new-penn-is-a-long-time-ltl-in-the-northeast

FreightWaves Classics: Railway Express Agency was THE express package delivery service

An REA refrigerated boxcar. The photo was taken at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles in February 1958. (Photo: SLO Railroad Museum)

Express services began in the 1830s

Express service has been defined as the prompt and safe movement of parcels, money and goods at rates higher than standard freight rates.

Many historians credit William Harnden for starting the business category. In 1839 he began carrying express goods on regular trips between New York and Boston (even though a direct New York to Boston rail line was not yet in service). As business grew he formed Harnden’s First Express and even initiated shipments by...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-railway-express-agency-was-the-express-package-delivery-service

FreightWaves Haul of Fame: NEMF’s 2019 bankruptcy shocked LTL sector

Without warning, New England Motor Freight (NEMF) and 10 related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, New Jersey, on February 11, 2019. The company announced that it would commence an “orderly wind-down” of the business. The filing cited rising operating costs, a shortage of drivers and financial difficulties in the bankruptcy decision. The company officially closed its doors one year later.

Origins

New England Motor Freight’s origins can be...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-haul-of-fame-nemfs-2019-bankruptcy-shocked-ltl-market

FreightWaves Classics: Interstate 10 runs coast-to-coast in southern U.S.

The last portion of I-10 to be finished. (Photo: Arizona DOT)

In February 1994, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) named the Dwight D.  Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways (the Interstate Highway System, or IHS) one of the “Seven Great Construction Wonders of America.” As the ASCE correctly observed, our interstate system is “the greatest public works project in history.”

The interstate system does not only link the nation, but it has significantly boosted economic productivity and helped to sustain a more than ten-fold...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-interstate-10-runs-coast-to-coast-in-southern-us

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