Trucking

Manitoba carrier Paul’s Hauling credited with helping avoid wider spread from terminal thanks to proactive siloing of employees and close collaboration with health authorities.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Cross-border trade is key for economic growth; US-Mexico truck crossings declined 8% through April 2020; transportation software firm moving to Texas; and Laredo CBP finds $11 million worth of meth inside shipment of flooring.

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Travel bans, shelter-in-place orders and virtually no demand for rental cars created a domino effect that is hammering the auto industry amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Sese Logistics said it worked several weeks and “incurred $152,433 in fees and expenses in obtaining the release” of the trailers.

Load volumes and rejections improve this week

Spencer says reasons for the waivers have disappeared

New trailer orders fell to near zero in April as the coronavirus pandemic raised questions of a shakeout of weakened players and consolidation in the equipment sector.

Attorneys representing plaintiffs in the legal action say they’ve got a binder full of cases.


The Mexican government issued a new decree on Thursday causing confusion among companies as to when they will be able to restart U.S.-linked supply chains.

Charley Dehoney spoke with the founder of BasicBlock, a blockchain startup based in Nebraska. Here is the story of the company’s success to-date.

As the battle for fair rates carries on, what if the solution is not government regulation, but rather the creation of a consortium that anonymizes rate data on a lane-by-lane basis for all to see?

Apart from exonerating drivers from wrongful accusations in road accidents, dash cams can also help the fleet management reward top drivers and improve driver behavior.

EKA Solutions builds ecosystem for small and medium-size brokers, carriers and shippers

Groups warn new rules will increase driver fatigue, but challenging them would be “heavy-duty case” to take on.

Long-awaited changes to the federal hours-of-service (HOS) rules expected to provide additional flexibility to truck drivers and fleets were announced today, receiving some industry praise and plenty of criticism from safety advocates.

Wabash National felt the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter, but the trailer maker said its earlier preparations for a softening market helped offset deeper trouble.

Payment management solutions provider Cass Information Systems’ freight index fell mightily in April as expected, but it may have represented the bottom of the market.

April’s coronavirus impact intensified pricing pressure in an already depressed used truck market where most cash-conserving buyers held back on purchases.

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