Evolving Capacity Dynamics in a Volatile Marketplace
From wild fires to pandemics, face masks to murder hornets – 2020 has been a crazy year for all of us. For many industries, it meant a huge loss in revenue, even bankruptcy or closing a business. For the trucking industry, this year has brought the opposite – the...
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 changes in GDP,...
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...