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A convertible ships like any other car with one exception: the roof is fabric, and fabric is what transit can actually destroy.

Almost every vehicle that crosses an ocean goes on a roll on roll off ship, driven aboard and parked on deck. That design explains everything else about it.

Most construction delays blamed on weather are logistics failures, and they are visible weeks in advance if anybody is looking.

This article will cover the new proposed speed mandate on commercial motor vehicles. It will cover the specific opposition to the mandates, and even the research conducted that supports the opposition.

Stick Shift cars were the first kind of cars before cars with automatic transmissions came around. In this time and age, would you drive a stick shift car?

Fuel is the cost everyone names and it is not reliably the largest one. Driver pay frequently exceeds it, and the fixed costs that continue whether the truck moves or not are larger than most people assume.

This article will cover what the different types of snowmobiles there are, how to prepare them for shipment, the different options for shipping, and how to choose a good company for your shipping needs.

It has to be bolted to the pallet, not strapped. A 600 pound object that shifts in transit destroys the pallet and everything near it.

The obstacle to electric trucking is not the trucks. It is that a charging network for freight has to exist in specific physical places, drawing power most of those places cannot currently supply.

Winter car shipping: how weather affects timing, which lanes get more expensive, and how to prepare a vehicle for cold-weather transport.

Double brokering means the insurance you were told about belongs to a company that never touched your vehicle.

Packing tighter genuinely lowers the rate, because LTL is priced on density rather than on weight alone.

Four pieces of logistics technology genuinely change what happens to your shipment: tracking, driver hours, load boards and the paperwork.

The Avenger is Jeep’s small electric SUV and it is not sold in the United States. Its 4×4 version uses a second motor on the rear axle rather than a driveshaft, and that layout is the one defining electric all wheel drive in America too.