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The Future of Refrigerated Distribution: Why Food Shippers Are Rethinking Their Supply Chains

The Future of Refrigerated Distribution: Why Food Shippers Are Rethinking Their Supply Chains

The food and beverage industry is facing a new set of distribution challenges. Retailers are demanding tighter delivery windows, inventory strategies are becoming more regionalized, and consumers continue to expect fresh and frozen products delivered quickly and consistently. As a result, many food manufacturers and distributors are reevaluating how they move temperature-sensitive freight. The goal [...]
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What to Do If Your Transportation Provider Files Bankruptcy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Shippers

What to Do If Your Transportation Provider Files Bankruptcy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Shippers

What to Do If Your Transportation Provider Files Bankruptcy: A Step-by-Step Guide for Shippers When a transportation provider files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the impact on your supply chain is immediate. Store deliveries may be disrupted. Drivers become uncertain about their employment. Equipment access may be interrupted. Cash flow instability can affect service reliability. If your [...]
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Stay Agile in a Tightening Freight Market: How to Avoid Overcommitting Capacity When Conditions Shift

Stay Agile in a Tightening Freight Market: How to Avoid Overcommitting Capacity When Conditions Shift

Making Sense of the 2026 Freight Market—Without the Jargon If the freight market feels confusing right now, you’re not alone. After a long stretch of oversupply and soft demand, 2026 is shaping up to be a transition year—not a full rebound, but not a downturn either. Capacity is becoming more limited, demand fluctuates, and rates [...]
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Lease vs Rent vs Buy Trucks: How Fleets Should Decide in 2026

Lease vs Rent vs Buy Trucks: How Fleets Should Decide in 2026

Fleet Equipment Strategy in a Changing Freight Market Freight markets move in cycles. What’s different right now is how many variables are hitting fleets at once: uneven demand, cautious pricing power, and elevated financing costs—all while shippers still expect reliability and speed. Industry analysts describe early 2026 as an inflection point: conditions are shifting away [...]
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Honoring Service, Building Community: How TCI Transportation Celebrates Veterans Day

Honoring Service, Building Community: How TCI Transportation Celebrates Veterans Day

At TCI Transportation, Veterans Day is more than a date on the calendar — it’s a reminder of the courage, camaraderie, and commitment that define so many of the people who make our company strong. Veterans bring accountability, teamwork, and dependability to every role they take on — values that align perfectly with the foundation [...]
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Holiday Hustle + Winter Weather: Safety Tips For Every Driver on the Road

Holiday Hustle + Winter Weather: Safety Tips For Every Driver on the Road

As the holiday season ramps up, the transportation and logistics industry enters a high-volume, high-risk window that requires an even stronger focus on safety. Freight demand increases, schedules tighten, roads grow more congested, and winter weather adds another layer of complexity. But these risks don’t affect professional drivers alone — they impact every person sharing [...]
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TCI Transportation Acquires Success NationaLease, Expanding Fleet and Carrying Forward a Shared Legacy of Values

TCI Transportation Acquires Success NationaLease, Expanding Fleet and Carrying Forward a Shared Legacy of Values

Kansas City, KS / Los Angeles, CA — TCI Transportation, a family-owned provider of dedicated logistics, leasing, and rentals, announced today the acquisition of Success NationaLease, a Kansas-based leasing company founded in 1960 by Hanan Wedlan. This acquisition adds more than 450 trucks and three facilities to TCI’s nationwide network, strengthening its presence in Kansas [...]
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Seamless Startups, Scalable Solutions: Inside TCI’s Dedicated Launch Process

Seamless Startups, Scalable Solutions: Inside TCI’s Dedicated Launch Process

In the fast-paced world of transportation and logistics, launching a new dedicated operation is more than just dispatching trucks—it’s about setting the foundation for a long-term partnership. At TCI, we treat each startup as an opportunity to follow through on our promise: your business, our priority. From the initial kickoff call to Day 90 and [...]
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Unlocking Savings with CORE Vouchers: How TCI Helps You Navigate Incentives and Compliance

Unlocking Savings with CORE Vouchers: How TCI Helps You Navigate Incentives and Compliance

If you're in the transportation or logistics industry in California, you've probably heard about the push toward zero-emission equipment. But did you know there’s funding available to help make that transition more affordable? Through the Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE), you can receive significant financial incentives for purchasing zero-emission off-road equipment. And the [...]
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