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2. Schneider National - Wikipedia

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   Headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin Schneider truck Schneider truck, rear view Schneider National, Inc. is a provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services. [ 1 ] Schneider's services include regional, long-haul, expedited, dedicated, bulk, intermodal, brokerage, cross-dock logistics, pool point distribution, supply chain management ...

3. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.

4. Owner-operator - Wikipedia

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   In the United States and Canada, the term typically refers to independent contractors who hire out and drive their own semi-trailer trucks.In trucking, an owner-operator is a self-employed commercial truck driver or a small business that operates trucks for transporting goods over highways for its customers. [1]

5. XPO, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   XPO provides dedicated truckload, LTL, truck brokerage, managed transportation, last mile and freight forwarding in Europe. [42] The company also manages multimodal solutions, such as road-rail and road-short sea combinations. [43] 1,000 new drivers were hired in the U.K. and Ireland in 2022. [44] [45]

6. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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   A truck with a bucket-like cargo area which the front can be raised, hinging on the rear, allowing the load to slide ("dump") out of the cargo area. Often a straight truck, semi-trailers are also common. Flatbeds and refuse container trucks can often "dump", but are rarely called that. [3] Eighteen-wheeler

7. Trucking industry in American culture - Wikipedia

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   In the early days of trucking culture, truck drivers were more frequently portrayed as protagonists in the popular media. In Trucking country: The road to America's Wal-Mart economy, author Shane Hamilton explores the history of trucking and how developments in the trucking industry helped the so-called big-box stores dominate the U.S. marketplace.