Month: August 2026

Teamsters-staffed less-than-truckload carrier TP Freight Lines has suspended operations. The company “abruptly notified” employees on Aug. 4 “not to report to work until further notice,” a press release from the union said. Calls to the company’s main phone switchboard are currently going unanswered. The Teamsters Joint Council 37 said the company failed to make payroll… Continue reading Teamsters reveal TP Freight’s sudden shutdown

Canadian freighter operator Cargojet plans to recover the substantial increase in costs stemming from a new five-year contract with pilots through productivity gains and by raising rates on customers that ship goods on its domestic overnight network and rent planes for international transportation. The collective bargaining agreement, which was finalized by an arbitration award late… Continue reading Cargojet to pass large pilot wage increase onto customers

Reefer spot rates Reefer national spot linehaul rates paid to carriers averaged $2.63 per mile last week (minus fuel), down 0.2%, or $0.01 per mile, from the prior week. That leaves rates 33.7%, or $0.66 per mile, above the same week a year ago. Against the nine-year seasonal pattern, the current rate runs 25.4%, or… Continue reading USDA TruckRate Weekly: West cools, but the 2025 gap won’t close

Americold isn’t an ocean carrier, a port operator or a railroad. But it is leveraging partnerships with those entities to build a North American network. That’s the thesis behind the Atlanta-based company’s newest facility, a roughly US$80 million import-export hub that formally opened in June at one of the fastest-growing container gateways on the Atlantic… Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: Americold’s Port Saint John bet stitching DP World and CPKC into one cold chain