Mark Solomon

According to a panel of shipper executives at CSCMP's EDGE Conference, this year's trucking rate spike has some U.S. companies looking to private fleet, rail options.

Pilot underway in U.S.-U.K., U.S.-Australia lanes.

AAPA also seeks exemptions on other types of container-handling equipment.

Otto founder returns to run new standalone business. Move underscores Uber CEO's bullishness on model, company says.

No current need to invest in autonomous truck technology, company says.

Truckload driver wages must hit $75,000 annually to boost supply, executive says.

That's right. A mid-July haul from Spokane, Washington, to Key West, Florida, fetched that princely sum. That didn't include a fuel surcharge equal to 22 percent of the rate.

The initiative aims to create partner relationships that would control the supply of drivers and capacity.

Proposed 5-year pact raises full-timers' pay by 83 cents an hour per year.

Truckers seen taking share from rails as technologies drive down costs, improve service, annual report says; transport, inventory costs climbed well above inflation in '17, it adds.