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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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People Power the Fleet: How Culture Drives Operational Excellence in Transportation

People Power the Fleet: How Culture Drives Operational Excellence in Transportation

In transportation and logistics, operational excellence is often associated with advanced technology, modern equipment, and sophisticated logistics platforms. While those tools play an important role, they are not the true foundation of a high-performing fleet. The most successful transportation companies understand a simple truth: operational excellence begins with people. Behind every safe mile, on-time delivery, [...]
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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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TCI Transportation 2025 Year in Review: Growth, Safety, and Innovation

TCI Transportation 2025 Year in Review: Growth, Safety, and Innovation

By Ryan and Andrew Flynn, Co-Presidents, TCI Transportation Reflecting on 2025 at TCI Transportation As we close out 2025, we’re proud of what this year represented for TCI Transportation: real growth, real change, and real momentum—without losing what makes this company special. TCI has always been built differently. Not because we’ve tried to be flashy, [...]
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