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Averitt Express and Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. are the country's highest-rated privately held and publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers, respectively, according to a survey of more than 2,000 shippers in the United States that Mastio & Co. conducted last year.

Intermodal traffic rose 2% in the first quarter, largely stemming from container and trailer volumes, a signal that a rebound is underway from the doldrums of 2016.

Chassis providers Flexi-Van Leasing and Direct ChassisLink Inc. will launch a “pool of pools” beginning June 1, offering trucking companies shared chassis at the Port of New York and New Jersey. But the largest chassis provider in the Northeast, Trac Intermodal, won’t contribute equipment to the pool.

The Cosco Development arrived to fanfare on the East Coast last week as public officials celebrated the largest containership in history to cross the Panama Canal with destinations to Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina.

Chassis providers Flexi-Van Leasing and Direct ChassisLink Inc. will launch a “pool of pools” beginning June 1, offering trucking companies shared chassis at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

XPO Logistics Inc. earned a profit in the first quarter of the year for the first time since 2010, rocketing past analyst expectations on the strength of its linehaul, cross-dock and pickup-and-delivery operations.

Financial auditors at accounting firm BKD have withdrawn their support of Celadon Group Inc.’s financial statements for the past three fiscal quarters due to a disagreement on the value of used trucks, according to the truckload carrier.

YRC Worldwide Inc. lost more than double the amount of money than it did a year ago, marking 10 consecutive years the less-than-truckload carrier ended the first quarter in the red.

Auditors at BKD have withdrawn their support of Celadon Group Inc.’s financial statements for the last three fiscal quarters because the trucking company didn’t produce sufficient documents on the value of used trucks, according to a letter in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.