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Maple Leaf Motoring: Six arrested in C$7 million cargo crime spree near Toronto (with video)
Group accused of hijacking of truck with 8,500 mobile devices, stealing three commercial vehicles and attempting warehouse robberies in an unusually well-planned and brutal case…
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Commentary: Are brokers gouging carriers?
Noel Perry heads Transport Futures in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In addition, he heads Transportation Economics, a consulting company focused on strategy, market research and forecasting for…
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Borderlands: Halliburton lays off 650 workers; DHL expands El Paso freight operations
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Halliburton lays off 650 oil and…
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California’s AB5 has carriers rethinking vendor relationships
Law firm Benesch warns legislation will likely raise costs but carriers have options.
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Freight volumes fall to new heights
Freight volumes took a nosedive to this past week, which led to the biggest difference in annual freight volumes this year.
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Supply chain management specialist Lynkit joins BiTA
Significant gains expected from real-time kinematics for the port logistics and trucking industry.
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FreightWaves oil report: why the oil market didn’t particularly care about the Iranian tanker incident
A report released the same day as the tanker incident shows why it's hard to envision higher prices.
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Jump in box ship sizes serving US and Europe
An influx of new container ships has hiked the average size of vessels deployed on the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe trades, reports Alphaliner.
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Down Under Trucking: strip club driver dies in truck crash; high trucker jailed; cattle truck fail
It has been a dramatic week in Australian trucking: strip club bus-truck crash; nine months of jail; massive infrastructure works; trucker death; call for mandatory…
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“Nuclear verdict” kills 540 truck carrier
The company employed 540 drivers and was Camping World's primary delivery service for RVs
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