Real Time & Projections Throughout the Industry. Our friends at Truckstop.com maintain a fascinating chart on their home page. Their live feed of postings and rates shows available loads for six types of freight movement, along with total opportunity amounts […]

NATCO on Capitol Hill NATCO was honored to attend last week’s Capitol Hill Fly-In, an annual event sponsored by the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Represented by our VP of Operations Cori Eckley, the 3PL Policy Forum is, according to TIA’s description, […]

Or: We’re Not in Dire Straits. Here’s a good story: The British rock band Dire Straits was looking for its big break in the mid-1970s. The musicians heard a music producer was having a backyard barbecue in Los Angeles. They […]

Or: Why We’re Not Changing Our Name to MATCO Anytime Soon. We’ve explored the possibilities and possible implications of new vehicles in this space. Some seem very promising, like the Nikola One hydrogen-powered semi-truck. And some give us eyebrow-raising pause, […]

Turning Talk Into Action. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…unless you happened to be at the TIA Conference last week.  Sponsored by a number of innovative companies, this was a record year for attendance, with 1,175 people at the […]

Yes, It’s Been Around a While. We recently spotlighted a promising innovation in hydrogen-powered electric semi-trucks with a profile of the Nikola One by Nikola Motors. Still in development, it reportedly has a range of some 1,200 miles on each […]

Considering Zero Emissions. Chemistry lesson: Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the Universe. End of chemistry lesson. Regular readers of The NATCO Blog know that we’re largely skeptical of companies introducing technology for technology’s sake. One example that’s […]