Who’s moving these days, and why? We move cars all day, and many of our customers are moving themselves, hence the need for auto shipping. Check out the handy infographic below for the most common reasons why people move!

Here’s a bit of good news: the British newspaper The Telegraph reports that the United States today produces enough oil to satisfy 72% of its domestic needs, versus around 50% ten years ago. This is partly because of increased production, and partly curbed demand due to increasing fuel efficiency of American vehicles. New passenger cars [...]

Employees are more reluctant to be transferred to another country, especially places that are very different culturally. A volatile housing market makes employees hesitant to sell their homes and move someplace new. Additionally, an uncertain job market causes many spouses of transferees to remain in their home country to keep their jobs. Moving can be [...]

United States maritime transportation is governed by the Jones Act – a law that stipulates that marine shipping between domestic ports must be conducted on ships built in the U.S. and staffed by American crews. Recently, however, there has been speculation that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to seek a waiver to the [...]

We have recently redesigned one of our network pages, Automobile-Transportation.com. The new visual theme features a rotating background image instead of a static background. I couldn’t tell you what kind of code it takes to do this, but it’s an impressive feature. We also recommend an informative and math-rich post on another automobile transport broker’s [...]

A press-release version of yesterday’s article on the impact of high gas prices on the automobile transport industry has appeared on a number of sites, including the Centre Daily Times. You can read it on their online page, here.

2011 was supposed to be the year when Americans – financially battered, underemployed and demoralized by the impossibly long crisis – finally found their livelihoods improving. In February of this year, unemployment dipped under 9% for the first time since April 2009. Private sector hiring is up, jobless benefit filings are the lowest in 3 [...]

It’s not the best-kept secret in the world that natural resources seldom make a country more democratic. Oil, in particular, seems to be a remarkable fertilizer for despots and kleptocrats, and a good amount of the money goes to fund people who like to find creative uses for passenger planes. In the midst of periodic [...]