All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Transportation

With falling diesel fuel prices, what does that mean for trucking failure rates? Additionally, at what fuel price should we see the numbers settle down?

While outwardly logical that building a relationship of trust between the customer and the 3rd party logistics (3PL) operator is key, many "engagements" between the client and the 3PL fail because the client does not trust the 3Pl operator. Truly successful outsourcing relationships depends on...

Supply chain management is a dicey business today and the risk factors are more diverse, more plentiful, more global, and more consequential than ever before. Not only simply an insurance issue, supply chain managers have learned that responsibility and accountability is now compulsory throughout the...

The need for hydrogen fuel for vehicles may never emerge if supercapacitor technology is commercialized. PEVs, not FCVs or FC hybrids, would be the vehicles of the future under this scenario.

Is Boeing nervous that Japan may develop the replacement for the 737 prior to that company being able to focus on kicking off the development on their own?  One would feel that to have this kind of a quasi-partner looking over their shoulder would make the development team in Japan a little concerned...

  The U.S. Postal Service appears to be getting serious about improving its technology and marketing efforts to better compete with the two publicly held parcel delivery giants, UPS and FedEx.   Postmaster General Jack Potter recently disclosed plans that would revamp the centuries-old Postal...

YRC Worldwide, which collectively has about a 30 percent market share in the $35 billion less-than-truckload sector, is laying off at least 200 back-office workers, mostly at its Overland Park, Kan., and Akron, Ohio, offices. These cutbacks can be taken two ways. The half-full view is that YRC is gaining...

IATA rightly assigns much of its members' travails to the oil spike. How quickly we forget. Before the oil spike we had a situation where many airlines were struggling - especially in the US - with rising labor demands. The truth is that the industry had a brief moment of profitability. There were exceptions...

IdleAire and its “ATE designation” has been purchased by a group including Airlie Group, Kenmont Investments Management, SV Special Situations Fund, Whitebox Advisors, Wayzata Investment Partners and Wilfrid Aubrey, LLC. Their transition to a new management team is being handled by CGR Partners. The...

The use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as a fuel for vehicles was an important component of Pickens' Plan to use wind energy.  Utah has been able to take advantage of the cost structure of natural gas in Utah and an infrastructure for delivery to assist in the use of CNG as a fuel. ...