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Capitol Watch: Administration Launches Supply Chain Initiatives Moving into 2024

Capitol Watch: Nearing Reauthorization Deadline Heightens Need for Highway Trust Fund Solvency

Trucking Trends: Are We There Yet?

Capitol Watch: Congress Advances Continuing Resolution, Securing Extra Time to Enact FY24 Appropriations

Capitol Watch: Highly Anticipated Multimodal Freight Office Remains Unfinished Business

Capitol Watch: White House, USDOT Continue Efforts to Improve Project Delivery

Capitol Watch: Clock Ticking for Legislators to Advance FY2024 Appropriations

Trucking Trends: Driving through the 100 Deadliest Days

Capitol Watch: Legislators Push for Supply Chain & Permitting Improvements

Trucking Trends: It’s a pivotal time for truckers

Capitol Watch: EPA Initiates Final Phase of Clean Trucks Plan

Capitol Watch: Congress Begins Push for Additional Ocean Shipping Reforms

Trucking Trends: Truck drivers need a blockbuster

Capitol Watch: East Palestine Train Derailment Prompts Congressional Oversight

Trucking Trends: Zone of Contention

Capitol Watch: Congress & USDOT Reveal Upcoming Priorities

Capitol Watch: EPA Tackles Transportation Emissions from Ports and Trucks

Capitol Watch: Saying Goodbye to the 117th Congress

Capitol Watch: Giving Thanks – Year One of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Capitol Watch: New Year’s (Continuing) Resolutions

Trucking Trends: Appreciation is good for truck drivers – and for business

Capitol Watch: Labor Pains – Ongoing Labor Disputes in the Freight Industry

Trucking Trends: Carriers face a chilly reality amid California’s historic drought

Capitol Watch: It’s All About the Money – Annual Appropriations & Budget Reconciliation

Trucking Trends: Truckload forecast: Issues that will shape the rest of 2022

Capitol Watch: Proposed Gas Tax Holiday – Grief or Relief?

Trucking Trends: For safety’s sake, let’s regulate the right things

Trucking Trends: Truckers have few remedies for pain at the pump

Capitol Watch: Congress Begins Final Negotiations on Legislation to Advance Economic Competitiveness & Supply Chain Efficiency

Trucking Trends: The rates are falling, the rates are falling!

Capitol Watch: From BIL to Dollar Bills – USDOT Solicits Applications for $2.9B in Multimodal Grant Funding

Trucking Trends: Trucks are logging more miles, but for how long?

Capitol Watch: Electric Vehicles are on the Horizon – Are We Ready?

Trucking Trends: Why the 3G sunset matters to supply chains

Capitol Watch: Congress Tees Up To-Do List for 2022

Capitol Watch: Historic Freight & Transportation Infrastructure Investments Signed into Law

Trucking Trends: Trucks Cost More Than Ever—If You Can Find Them

Capitol Watch: Halloween Brings Federal Funding Frights & Daunting Deadlines

Trucking Trends: Finding and retaining truck drivers is a job for everyone

Capitol Watch: A Tale of Two Infrastructure Bills – Reconciliation & Reauthorization

Trucking Trends: Need more productivity from your truckers? Give 'em a rest

Capitol Watch: Congressional Olympics: Infrastructure Legislation

Trucking Trends: The pump is primed for high truckload prices

Capitol Watch: Summer Spotlight on Infrastructure & Transportation Legislation

Capitol Watch: House & Senate Transportation Committees Approve Separate Reauthorization Proposals;
White House Continues American Jobs Plan Negotiations

Trucking Trends: Year of the Domino: 3 More Supply Chain Constraints Worth Watching

Capitol Watch: Supply Chain Disruptions During Infrastructure Week Highlight Investment Needs

Trucking Trends: As port backlogs ease, record imports take to the road

Capitol Watch: Infrastructure – What's in a Name?

Trucking Trends: Got Capacity? Time to Get Cracking

Capitol Watch: Could Infrastructure be Next on the Policy Agenda?

Trucking Trends: Cold weather delivers a shock to spot freight prices

Capitol Watch: Mayor Pete becomes Secretary Pete & Congress Talks Infrastructure

Trucking Trends: Early Indicators for the 2021 Freight Economy

Capitol Watch: New Year, New Congress & Administration

Trucking Trends: Questions about truckload rates? I have a few

Capitol Watch: A 2020 Wishlist – Federal Funding, Stimulus & Vaccines

Trucking Trends: A Closer Look at the Persistent Rise of Spot Truckload Rates

Capitol Watch: Can President-elect Biden Get Infrastructure Done?

Trucking Trends: Remember the truck driver shortage? It's back

Capitol Watch: Transportation and the Supreme Court; Past Decisions & What to Expect Next

Trucking Trends: 3 Things You Can Bank On in an Unpredictable Freight Market

Capitol Watch: Two Unconventional Conventions

Trucking Trends: How hurricane season affects truckload freight markets

Capitol Watch: House-Passed FY21 Appropriations Package Faces Uphill Battle

Trucking Trends: It's summer. Why are spot rates increasing?

Capitol Watch: House Passes Surface Transportation Reauthorization, What's Next?

Trucking Trends: 3 Freight Trends to Watch this Fourth of July

Capitol Watch: The Road to Reauthorization

Trucking Trends: Produce Season Coming Just in Time for Truckers

Capitol Watch: Amidst Pandemic, Maritime Industry Stays on Course

Capitol Watch: Infrastructure in the Time of COVID-19

Trucking Trends: Shippers Paying More to Secure Truckload Capacity

Capitol Watch: Where 2020 Presidential Candidates Stand on Infrastructure

Trucking Trends: Why Freight Brokers Need to Know Their ABCs

Capitol Watch: Congress Talks Infrastructure: the Good, the Bad, and the Funding

Capitol Watch: New Year, New Technologies

Trucking Trends: Database of Truck Drivers With Drug Violations Opens on Jan. 6

Capitol Watch: Making a List and Checking it Twice

Trucking Trends: If Trucking Capacity Tightens, These New Rules Won't Help

Capitol Watch: Daylight Saving Time: Time Change or a Time for Change?

Trucking Trends: Capacity and the Drug and Alcohol Clearhouse

Capitol Watch: Balancing the Two I-Words: Impeachment and Infrastructure

Trucking Trends: Load-to-Truck Ratios Tell the Tale

Capitol Watch: Labor Daze – A Closer Look at Labor Disputes in the Trucking Industry

Trucking Trends: Backhaul or Deadhead? Truckers Weigh In

Capitol Watch: The Weather Outside is Frightful Making Infrastructure Less Delightful

Trucking Trends: Contract Truckload Rates are Higher, But For How Long?

Capitol Watch: An Update on U.S. Trade Negotiations

Trucking Trends: June Puts Truckload Freight at a Tipping Point

Capitol Watch: House Begins FY20 Appropriations Process for THUD

Trucking Trends: Like Farmers, Reefer Haulers Wait for Better Days

Capitol Watch: Checking in with the Administration

Trucking Trends: Plenty of Freight. And Trucks

Capitol Watch: The 116th Congress Is Talking About Infrastructure, Here's What They're Saying

Trucking Trends: The Cumulative Benefits of All that Snow

Capitol Watch: Are Earmarks Making a Come Back?

Trucking Trends: Trailer Pools: Look Before You Leap

Capitol Watch: Funding the Federal Government: Opportunities and Obstacles

Trucking Trends:Yes, No, Maybe: What We're Learning About ELDs

Capitol Watch: 2019 Begins Under a Partial Federal Government Shutdown

Trucking Trends: Many Truckers Threatened to Quit after ELDs. Did they?

Capitol Watch: 2019 Outlook

Trucking Trends: Working on the Right Moves: FMCSA Clarifies Off-Duty Personal Conveyance

Capitol Watch: The Future of Transportation?

Trucking Trends: Bigger in Texas? Not Lately

Capitol Watch: NAFTA to USMCA – Where Do Things Stand?

Trucking Trends: Mitigating Disaster: Of Florence and FEMA Loads

Capitol Watch: Ending the 115th Congress – Short on time, long on to-do's

Trucking Trends: For Shippers, the Wild Ride Continues

Capitol Watch: An Update on the Gas Tax – Both Federal and State

Trucking Trends: After a June Peak, Freight Rates Start to Moderate

Capitol Watch: Trump Tariffs Polarize U.S. Businesses

Trucking Trends: How Does the Fuel Surcharge Affect Truckload Freight Rates?

Capitol Watch: At the Halfway Mark of 2018: What's Left for the 115th Congress?

Trucking Trends: 100 Loads for Every Truck? Houston, Energy Sector Drive a Sizzling Flatbed Freight Market

Capitol Watch: BUILDing Rural America

Trucking Trends: Survey Says: ELD Compliance is High, But at a Cost to Carriers

Capitol Watch: Same Pie, Smaller Slices?

Trucking Trends: Flatbed Freight on a Steep Incline

Capitol Watch: White House Infrastructure Plan Released, What's Next?

Trucking Trends: Will We See an Early Spring for Spot Freight?

Capitol Watch: Could 2018 be the year for an infrastructure plan?

Trucking Trends: Freight Keeps on Trucking into 2018

Capitol Watch: Tax Reform: Transportation Companies Win, But Infrastructure Not as Lucky?

Trucking Trends: Real Impact of ELD-Day Still to Come

Capitol Watch: What Do Transportation Stakeholders Want Under the Tree?

Trucking Trends: Don't Get Taken in this Season of Giving

Capitol Watch: With Transportation Revenue Unclear, Administration Tackles Permitting

Trucking Trends: Brace Yourself for a Busy December

Capitol Watch: Fixing the HMTF: A Bipartisan Win?

Trucking Trends: What We Can Learn from Harvey and Irma

Capitol Watch: NAFTA Trade Talks Kick Off

Capitol Watch: Will We See an Infrastructure Bill in 2017?

Trucking Trends: 2017 Truckload Freight: Top of the Charts

Capitol Watch: The Trump Administration's Vision for INFRAstructure

Trucking Trends: For Clues to June's Cornucopia of Freight, Look at May

Capitol Watch: Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request Provides Peek at Administration's Infrastructure Initiative

Trucking Trends: Backhaul Tuesday

Capitol Watch: Continuing Resolutions and Omnibuses: Keeping the Federal Government Running

Trucking Trends: The Future of Trucking? Plastics

Investment Insight: FDI Trends, Incentives and the Future of Free Zones

Capitol Watch: President Trump's Skinny Vision for the Federal Government

Trucking Trends: Stormy Mondays Always Get Rates Up

Capitol Watch: NAFTA: Where do we go from here?

Trucking Trends: There's Freight to Move

Capitol Watch: Trump Promises Infrastructure, Congress Mulls Details

Trucking Trends: The End of the Freight Recession

Capitol Watch: Elaine Chao – What a 1990 document can tell us about Trump's pick for Transportation Secretary

Trucking Trends: Setting a Stage to Survive Bad Weather

Capitol Watch: Filling in the Blanks of a Trump Infrastructure Plan

Trucking Trends: A 5,000-Foot View of the Freight Market

Capitol Watch: USDOT Moving Fast on FASTLANE

Capitol Watch: Transportation Groups and Congress Ponder Life after the Gas Tax

Trucking Trends: The Ripple Effect Hanjin bankruptcy, harvests may boost truckload rates

Capitol Watch: Trump, Clinton Stump on Transportation

Trucking Trends: Conditions Feel Ripe for a TL Rate Hike

Capitol Watch: Grant Awards a Mixed Bag for Freight

Trucking Tends: Truck Detention: No Time to Wait

The Big Bet: The Panama Canal is wider – now what?

Capitol Watch: Freight in Focus: The Administration's Last Six Months

Trucking Trends: Refrigerated Freight Heats Up

Can Intermodal Carry the Freight for Transportation?

Capitol Watch: Congress’ Long Transportation To-Do-List

Trucking Trends: When Is a Broker a Shipper? New FDA rules redefine the roles of food transporters

Intermodal Sector Rolls with Rapid Change

Ports and Carriers Need a Productivity Tango

Mega-ship Party Starts on the West Coast

Capitol Watch: Mind the (Highway Trust Fund) Gap

Critical for the Cold Chain: Sustainability and Technology Investment

Capitol Watch: USDOT to Choose FASTLANE Grant Recipients, but Congress has Oversight

The Cold Chain Market Heats Up

Trucking Trends: Reefer Freight Comes to Port

Weighing-in on Box Weigh-ins

Capitol Watch: A FASTer Environmental Review and Permitting Process?

Trucking Trends: Low Diesel Prices: Who’s Complaining?

Shipper Visibility and Volume Are Partly Cloudy

NW Seaport Alliance: Up to the Task?

Capitol Watch: FAST Act Promotes Innovation and Investment for Bright Future

Mega-Ships: Ready for the New Normal?

Capitol Watch: FAST and the Year in Review

Trucking Trends: The Year Big Data Goes to Work

State of Logistics: Taking Collaboration to the Next Level?

Trucking Trends: Highway Bill: Good News, Bad News

Capitol Watch: Freight on the FAST Track

Logistics Leaders in Acquisition Mode

Just in Time: LNG Propulsion Coming of Age

Trucking Trends: Mind the Gap

Capitol Watch: Freight is the Star of the House STRRA

Carriers Face a Sea of Green

Will Technology Boost Collaboration?

Capitol Watch: Freight on Track

Trucking Trends: A regulator’s to-do list: 5 items you should know about

Getting Smart with 3D Printing, WMS and Smart Ships

Ocean Trade and the China Factor

Capitol Watch: The Bell is Ringing – Recess is Over

Trade Agreements Mean Business

Is LNG power the future of ocean shipping?

The "big ship/rate volatility" conundrum

Capitol Watch: Senate DRIVES forward but House response lackluster

Trucking Trends: Weathering the Summer

Bulk ports riding the waves

Weak bulk market could persist

Capitol Watch: Freight Takes the Spotlight in EPW’s DRIVE Act

Ag shippers seek service quality improvements

Southeast ports boom would bode ill for some exporters

Pharma Supply Chains: The Logistics of Saving Lives

Integrated supply chains mean collaboration and tech expertise

Trucking Trends: The Roadcheck Effect

Capitol Watch: The Longstanding Tradition of Policy Riders

Forwarders push for "all-in" air cargo rates

Global intermodal freight to grow 17.4 percent

Trucking Trends: When your headhaul becomes a backhaul

Internet of Things could boost supply chain/logistics operations by $1.9T

Trucking Trends: Georgia on my Mind: How additional container traffic in Savannah is affecting truckload rates in the South

Capitol Watch: Devolution: Sideshow or Legitimate Alternative?

The Chill Factor: Meeting the challenges

The Chill Factor: Top cold chain trends include capacity, last mile and security

Shippers deal with sea, air and land issues

Shippers Face Choppy Waters

Capitol Watch: Washington sets out with a bang to find the buck

Trucking Trends: How the bursting energy bubble will affect trucking

West Coast congestion woes an opportunity for the East/Gulf Coasts?

West Coast port congestion will hang around

Neighbor to the Northwest: Border initiatives, port developments, and rail trade help define Western Canada’s growth, challenges, along with its commerce - and competition - with the U.S.

What’s Next For NAFTA?

The urge to merge dominates