Todd Tranausky and Avery Vise answer your questions from the Key Issues in Transportation webinar. Read below for topics discussed and watch the webinar replay at www.FTRintel.com/KeyIssues.
Questions for Trucking include: whether we are seeing trends similar to 2016, the Drive-Safe Act, Why we aren't seeing higher rates with mandatory ELDs, adoption of ELD, how Truck Utilization is calculated, drivers of the projected increase in TL rates, trade and tariffs, Amazon's 3PL, and more.
Questions for Rail include: whether we are in a freight recession, the impact of river flooding, renewable resources affect on rail volumes, regulating the transportation of ammonia, trends in drayage, emerging trends and their impact, metrics to evaluate efficiency, threats and opportunities, car type surpluses, and more.
If you haven’t listened to the webinar, a complimentary replay is available online now at www.FTRintel.com/KeyIssues. The Key Issues in Transportation webinar covers important operational, commercial, and regulatory issues facing the transportation industry. The hour long presentation included a discussion on trade implications for US transportation, trucking rates and utilization, key regulatory and legal issues in trucking, an overview of rail services and how carriers price for that service, and a discussion on demurrage and accessorial charge increases.