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06/21/2025

Trucking Industry Segments Post Mixed Results in 2024

Carriers across the various segments of the trucking industry navigated difficult business conditions in 2024 as freight market conditions remained unfavorable.

Truckload/Dedicated
In yet another down year for the trucking industry, a majority of North America’s largest truckload and dedicated contract carriers generated less revenue in 2024 than the prior year amid a stubbornly weak freight market.

One exception was Knight-Swift Transportation, which remains North America’s largest truckload carrier. Annual revenue from the company’s truckload operations grew about 7% to more than $5 billion.

06/21/2025

Trade Uncertainty Clouds Outlook for Top 100 For-Hire Carriers

For the largest trucking companies in North America, the past several months have been anything but business as usual. The steep and frequently changing tariffs enacted by the second Trump administration have injected a heavy dose of uncertainty into the U.S. economy while roiling supply chains and altering freight patterns.

These higher taxes on imports, largely aimed at bolstering domestic manufacturing and bringing production back to the United States in the long run, have for the time being created an unclear outlook for businesses, many of which have paused major decisions while waiting for the dust to settle on international trade.

The tumult caused by the tariffs — and the uncertainty surrounding them — has prolonged a lengthy period of hardship for motor carriers already strained by a persistently soft freight market.

12/02/2022

Georgia Ports Authority puts customers, and drivers first as demand surges

West Coast ports have recently been slammed with a slew of headwinds, including record-breaking congestion and labor disruptions. As a result, East Coast ports have gained popularity with shippers — and carriers — of all types.

The Port of Los Angeles saw throughput fall 25% year over year in October, and the Port of Long Beach experienced a 24% year-over-year drop. In contrast, the Port of Savannah experienced a 2% year-over-year climb, and the Port of Charleston realized 7% annual growth.

While a portion of the West Coast’s dropping volumes can be attributed to waning consumer demand for durable goods, the growth seen on the East Coast makes it clear that companies are beginning to favor the Eastern Seaboard.

“We’ve seen this time and time again. The West Coast has had challenges in the past, and there has been a shift in cargo to the East Coast,” said Ed McCarthy, Georgia Ports Authority chief operating officer.

Historically, when freight has shifted from west to east due to port challenges, the volume has not moved back quickly once those issues are resolved. This means that East Coast ports — including Southeastern ports like those GPA operates — should be preparing for recent cargo influxes to stick around.

“When it shifts here, only 1-2% actually shifts back year over year,” according to McCarthy. “Truck drivers, BCOs, and customers want ease of business. Georgia Ports Authority is easy to do business with.”

Georgia Ports Authority hosts a semiannual driver appreciation day at the ports. During these events, executives go out and speak to the truck drivers who move in and out throughout the day. This allows drivers to offer feedback, whether giving compliments or airing grievances.

12/01/2022

Senate lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday that would set aside $755 million in competitive grants over four years to expand much-needed truck parking across the country.

The bipartisan Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, co-sponsored by Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., will serve as companion legislation to a House version introduced last year and approved by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in July.

Like the House bill, which currently has 25 Republican and 14 Democratic co-sponsors, the Senate bill allows for public-private projects that create new parking areas or expand parking existing facilities, and projects that allow for commercial parking at existing weigh stations, rest areas, and park-and-ride facilities.

Unlike the House bill, however, the Senate bill would also allow for truck parking expansion at commercial truck stops and travel plazas.

The American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association championed that legislation in a joint letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in February. Both had similar praise for the bill introduced on Thursday.

12/01/2022

11/22/2022

A return to normalcy among trailer manufacturers gained momentum in October with order intake 82% higher than in September and 168% greater than a supply chain-constricted October 2021.

Preliminary reports show net trailer orders in October were 46,750 units, the highest of the year, according to ACT Research.

The pent-up demand for new equipment responded to the full opening of order books. Even as freight demand has cooled, a pandemic-related replacement demand jumped.

‘Increasing nimbleness’ helps OEMs meet the demand for trailer orders
“With the supply-chain constraints improving for trailer manufacturers, as well as their increasing nimbleness in meeting and mitigating those challenges, OEMs are more comfortable accepting orders, and this month’s preliminary data demonstrates that,” said Jennifer McNealy, ACT director of commercial vehicle market research.

Backlog-to-build ratios are running above the seven-month mark on average, she said.

“Everything still remains strong,” CEO Brent Yeagy of first-to-last mile equipment developer Wabash told FreightWaves. “What we talked about in the earnings call stands and continues. We’re at $2.3 billion [in backlog]. That is a Q3 record in Wabash’s history. We’ve had no cancellations per se. And we still see 2023 being a good year.”

11/20/2022

INTERNATIONAL – AIR, OCEAN
The services provided by Landstar agencies span the globe. Whether your shipments need to be transported by air, land or sea, Zeko Logistics, LLC can take your freight around the world. Landstar provides customers with a full suite of air freight forwarding, ocean freight forwarding, and customs brokerage services.

Through the Landstar network, we also offer these international shipping services to our customers:

*International import and export
*Documentation preparation and coordination
*Insurance facilitation
*Door-to-door service
*Over-dimensional and break bulk cargo
*NVOCC services

No matter where on Earth your business takes you, we’ll make sure your freight gets there too.

11/20/2022

CROSS-BORDER – CANADA, MEXICO
As an independent Landstar agency, we are a part of one of the largest transportation networks in North America. Through Landstar, we have access to van, flatbed, specialized, expedited, and rail intermodal capacity providers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Some of the advantages of working with Zeko Logistics, LLC for your cross-border transportation needs are:

Landstar is C-TPAT, FAST and CSA certified.
We offer door-to-door services.
Landstar has secure drop yards at all key border crossings.
One phone call to Zeko Logistics, LLC is all it takes to get your supply chain across North America.

11/20/2022

HEAVY/SPECIALIZED
Landstar agencies go to extremes to move your over-dimensional and heavy haul freight. Whether it’s hauling one load or managing and executing entire project moves, we can configure the right combination of equipment to move your heavy, oversized freight.

Through the Landstar network, we have access to a wide variety of equipment including flatbeds, step decks, double drops, expendables, multi-axles, steerable, lowboys with 40-80 ton capacity, RGN units, and much more.

Landstar’s unparalleled commitment to safety makes us the obvious choice when it comes to over-dimensional, super-heavy freight. One call to Zeko Logistics, LLC is all it takes to set specialized transportation solutions in motion.

11/20/2022

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