Trucking

Travel Centers of America named turnaround expert Jonathan Pertchik its new CEO, effective immediately.

Less than 1% have yet to comply with a federal mandate requiring them to switch over from AOBRDS to ELDs on Dec. 16.

Just days after Mexico’s Senate voted to approve modifications negotiated into the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), U.S. officials introduced a labor enforcement provision that threatened to stall the trade agreement. An annex of the agreement presented in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 13 called for the appointment of up to five U.S. labor inspectors […]

Amazon to block customers of its Seller-Fulfilled Prime service from using FedEx units for deliveries

Sales mandates are gaining popularity in the world’s two largest electric vehicle markets.

Navistar is recall four models of work trucks because they can move even with the parking brake on.

British transport associations call on Prime Minister Johnson to quickly agree a future trading arrangement with the European Union.

U.K.-based drone technology startup Skyports operates across London, Los Angeles and Singapore today and plans to be a leader in urban aerial mobility.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Police find $3 million in barrels of pork headed for Mexico; Stabilis Energy opens new transportation hub in Mexico; sales of heavy-duty trucks and buses fell 45.7% in Mexico during November; UPS driver arrested for allegedly […]

Biodiesel blending is on the ropes awaiting congressional action on reinstating a tax credit.

This week: Electric trucks deployed in Australia; new distribution center in Far North Queensland; high compliance rates with fatigue regulations; and container terminal truck charges.

One year after a sharply negative report sent shares plunging, XPO stock has more than recovered

Peak season has arrived

Morgan Stanley eyeing truck capacity constraints and higher rates in 2020, potentially reaching 2018 levels or higher.

The National Association of the Deaf believes a federal requirement denying CDLs to individuals with hearing impairments should be rescinded.

Employees of Mexican carrier Jaguar Transportation — a subsidiary of bankrupt Celadon Group — continue to protest unpaid wages by blocking the company’s Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, terminal in order to delay the removal of trucks, according to reports. “In Nuevo Laredo, hundreds — of personnel who worked at the Jaguar company maintain their peaceful protest […]

Route-optimization software goes beyond cutting miles to provide real advantages when human brains are freed from planning what trucks go where, when and how.

GIC, Singapore’s wealth fund, has acquired a Pan-European logistics real estate portfolio that has an accumulated industrial space of over 1 million square meters.

Labor union inks pay deal to keep Christamas merry

Health, labor and environmental groups had urged the California Air Resources Board to pass “the most aggressive medium- and heavy-duty truck standard possible.”