“The program offers technical and consultative resources that both shippers and carriers can use to reduce their carbon footprints, while improving the speed, resilience and efficiency of their supply chains,” said Bob Shellman, president and CEO at Odyssey Logistics.
One major concern for the opposition is a possible explosion of lawsuits under the state’s PAGA provision.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Texas Trucking Association appoints Ernesto Gaytán Jr. as chairman; Saddle Creek to open new distribution center in Texas; CFI reports four years of accident-free operations in Laredo; and 11 tractors destroyed by a fire at Texas plant.
Orders of new Class 8 trucks rose to a five-month high in August as manufacturers opened their order books for 2022 just a little.
Most often, hesitation surrounding autonomous vehicles centers on cost and safety concerns. Locomation set out to address these pain points with a phased approach.
The clock is ticking for all 34 trucking companies that participated in K-Ratio X’s now-defunct fuel hedging program to sign a universal settlement agreement.
Truck Talk is a newsletter that applies perspective and context to electrification, autonomy and the future of freight transportation.
“To satisfy the hiring needs of the companies currently on the platform, we need to find over 220,000 drivers every year for them. That’s not a small number,” says the CEO of YouCruit.
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia sees tonnage gains carry into the third quarter.
Growth in couriers and warehouses took an outsize percentage of the total net growth in jobs last month.
President Chad Eichelberger details Reliance Partners’ appearance yet again on the list and why 2021 was a major year for the company.
Nikola is licensing Bosch fuel cell technology to use in its Arizona plant, casting doubt on whether it would eventually use General Motors’ fuel cells.
Truck parking reservation platform TruckPark is making its services available through Roady’s Truck Stops.
Short seller Fuzzy Panda dumps dirt on Workhorse, including confirming an SEC probe of the troubled electric delivery van maker.
Convoy surveyed nearly 600 U.S. trucking companies and found that more recently founded carriers and younger demographics were more likely to feel pressure to reduce emissions.
Shell chose the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo to talk up diesel-powered freight efficiency. An odd choice of venue — or was it?
Supply chain disruptions and the growth of e-commerce have forced Seko Logistics to think differently about its logistics network.
ShipMatrix’s forecast projects less of an imbalance than the 2020 peak.
A family-owned dry and liquid bulk trucking company ceased operations as of midnight Tuesday, leaving 342 drivers without jobs, sources say.
“From a price perspective, from a capacity perspective, going into Q2, 2022 is before I’m going to see anything really letting up,” said Sherman Barnes, SVP of sales and marketing at Trio Trucking.
