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September Forecast: Optimism Allowed

In our June 2020 forecast update, we predicted that once the country fully recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, spot rates will soar along with the amount of freight to be deprioritized out of a capacity shortage. In the past weeks, we’ve been seeing...

Appreciating Drivers This Week and Every Week

Most people know being a Professional Truck Driver is not an easy job. But it’s essential, both during a pandemic and every other day. They are responsible for hauling close to 11 billion tons of products across the country every year – that’s about 70% of all goods...

AI: Disrupting Hiring to Create a Competitive Advantage

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – thousands of companies across industries are implementing it in different ways to solve a number of different pain points. The trucking industry is no different, at least when it comes to U.S. Xpress. One of the biggest issues in the...

The Capacity Shortage: Causes, Effects, and What’s Next

2020 has been a pretty crazy year. Toilet Paper shortages. Murder Hornets. Face masks. No one could have possibly predicted what this year would bring. The trucking industry has been no exception. Following historical marketing trends, experts predicted 2020 to hold a...

What to Expect from the Changing Landscape of Trucking Insurance

A proposed increase in minimum coverage requirements for truckload carriers, continued nuclear verdicts in trucking accidents, skyrocketing insurance costs for motor carriers – you’ve seen the headlines. But how do these and other market factors affect...

7 Reasons to Choose a Dedicated Fleet

First things first, what is a dedicated fleet? It’s tractors, trailers, drivers, and other resources exclusively devoted to serving a set of facilities or lanes in a transportation network. In other words, it’s a set of resources a carrier has committed to serving the...

Maneuvering the Changing Landscape of Trucking Insurance

Increased costs for truckload carriers and shippers have been all over the news recently, particularly when it comes to a proposed legislation requiring an increased minimum in liability insurance. The bill has already passed the House of Representatives...

The Benefits of One Point of Contact

In the trucking industry, many large carriers offer both brokerage and asset-based services. But if your company requires both, you have two or more teams to communicate with. But what if those teams were merged? Better yet, what if you only had one person to contact...

Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment: Technology That’s Changing the Trucking Industry

When it comes to safety, there’s no length a trucking company shouldn’t go. Whether it’s the safety of trucks and trailers, the safety of a customer’s freight, or the safety of drivers themselves, it should be a priority to every carrier. But what exactly does it mean...

The Future of Driving Is Here

The trucking industry hasn’t quite made it to teleportation or flying cars, but none the less, with self-driving technology, the future is here. Up and coming autonomous trucking technology is improving the lives of drivers, increasing safety on the roads,...

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