Estes Cuts Ties with Long Term Partner to Provide Direct LTL Service to Canada

Estes Cuts Ties with Long Term Partner to Provide Direct LTL Service to Canada

7 years ago

The big news on the LTL scene in Canada over the past few weeks has been the severing of ties between Estes Express, the number 14 ranked carrier (on the Transport Topics list) in the United States and TST Overland Express, a large Ontario-based LTL carrier that is one of the major divisions of […]

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Is there still Competition in the Canadian Freight Transportation Industry?

8 years ago

Last week I wrote about the consolidation that is taking place in the freight transportation industry in Canada. Thank you for the many positive comments and feedback. I hope the blog has stimulated some thought about the level of competition in the industry, in view of its domination by some very large players. One of […]

Understanding the Canadian Freight Market – Part 6 – Some Tips for Carriers

8 years ago

This is the sixth and final blog in this series on surface freight transportation within Canada and between Canada and the United States. In this blog I will focus on tips for carriers to help achieve success in the Canadian freight market. Is the Canadian Freight Market Worth the Investment? As outlined in the first […]

Understanding the Canadian Freight Market – Part 4 – Cross-Border Freight Transportation

8 years ago

The last blog in this series examined road and rail transportation within Canada; this blog will focus cross-border freight transportation. Please note that there are a set of processes and procedures (http://www.dantranscon.com/index.php/blog?view=entry&id=241 ) that must be followed in order to move goods successfully between the United States and Canada. Please refer to the second blog […]

Understanding the Canadian Freight Market – Part 3 – Intra-Canada Freight Transportation

8 years ago

This blog will focus on road and rail transportation within Canada; the next blog will look at cross-border freight transportation. Rail Transportation As outlined in the first blog in this series, Canada is large land mass with limited population. As a result, Canada’s two class 1 railways, along with the country’s short line carriers, play […]

Freight Bid Tip # 3. Obtain quality data on the company’s shipment activity

9 years ago

In order to conduct a freight RFP exercise, shippers need to secure historical data on their traffic volumes by type of service (e.g. small parcel, LTL, over the road truckload, intermodal etc.) and freight costs by lane (e.g. origin – destination pair). The data serves two purposes. First, by capturing and sharing shipment activity […]

Some Takeaways from the 2014 Surface Transportation Summit Part 1 – Economic and Trucking Trends

10 years ago

A sold out crowd attended the 2014 Surface Transportation Summit at the Mississauga Convention Centre on October 15. This year’s conference had 30 speakers and panelists and two networking tracks. While I was not able to attend all of the tracks, here are some of my key takeaways from this year’s sessions on Trends in […]

The Incredible Shrinking Canadian Freight Carrier Industry

10 years ago

For many years, industry experts have been predicting a consolidation in the Canadian freight industry. During and after the Great Recession, the decibel level of these warnings increased as most trucking companies faced the challenges of reduced freight volumes, sinking rates and the difficulty of managing a business during recessionary times. In fact, the industry […]

Has your Company Mastered Cross-Border Trade between Canada and the United States?

10 years ago

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014. Since the enactment of NAFTA in 1994, trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico has increased almost 200 percent to an estimated $930 billion. The cross-border flow of goods between the U.S. and Canada has grown to $400 billion. A […]