Garth Brooks’ continual stadium tours are impressive logistical feats but also represent the actual workings of supply chain and logistics.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: California’s electric truck mandate could affect Mexican transporters; Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway delivers first load; Texas EV startup secures electric van order; and Korea International Trade Association opens office in Texas. California’s electric- truck mandate […]
Ports prepare for Hurricane Beryl’s impact as the storm moves through Mexico and toward South Texas.
The BLS jobs report for June recorded a small drop in the number of truck transportation jobs.
Forward Air said Wednesday that interim Chief Financial Officer Jamie Pierson will assume that role on a permanent basis and that it has added James Faught as chief accounting officer.
Container carriers’ request to extend the compliance deadline for new federal billing requirements is being vigorously opposed by their customers.
Allegations of data suppression by committee members tasked with advising the federal government on truck crashes have gone unacknowledged by U.S. Department of Transportation officials.
A Baltimore UPS facility is planning to close in August, according to a Maryland state filing, after laying employees off earlier this year.
Strategic cargo theft from organized crime rings wreaked havoc on brokers and carriers in the first quarter of 2024.
The June Logistics Managers’ Index captures no growth in transportation capacity for the first time since March 2022.
Fundraising doesn’t sleep, and there’s no better time to get the holiday spirit than July.
Nearly $2 billion from the U.S. Department of Transportation will go toward transportation and supply chain projects nationwide.
Mexico is dropping its plan to ban imports of genetically modified yellow corn from the U.S., officials say.
A U.S. House appropriations bill includes $200 million to address the truck parking shortage, a problem plaguing most truck drivers.
Because insurers will be insulated from direct legal action under Georgia Senate Bill 426, the law may reduce their financial incentives to properly vet the trucking firms they insure.
US, Mexican truckers unite for a protest caravan in West Texas to highlight low wages, poor working conditions in both countries.
This week in Borderlands: ImportYeti launches tool to help brands source Mexico-made goods; Pharr bridge construction expansion project set to begin in August; Hammond Power Solutions opens fourth plant in Mexico; and United Kingdom-based logistics company opens Dallas office.
Is wireless charging an idea whose time has come for electric trucks? In some use cases, the answer is yes.
Widespread inflation, growing interest rates and a tight labor market will keep freight service demand low, with excess capacity and low freight rates for the rest of the year. Here’s what to do.
California’s PAGA law, long a bane for business, is set to get an overhaul.
