The American Trucking Associations is gearing up to fight against multimillion-dollar legal awards against truckers and their employers who are not at fault but blamed in many car-truck crashes.
The proposed actions address major rail shipper complaints voiced to the Board earlier this year.
This means that customers can ship or drop off packages while they shop for yarn or Halloween decor.
The Motley Fool discovers last-mile logistics. IMO 2020 will impact logistics warehousing footprint, JLL says
Women In Trucking ambassador Kellylynn McLaughlin drives to impact change for everyone in the industry.
Kar believes a driver’s relationship with an OEM will no longer end after the sale of a truck. That relationship will continue over the lifespan of the vehicle with the introduction of in-cab service technologies.
Motor carriers and commercial drivers agree on just four of the Top 10 challenges facing the trucking industry, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s annual study.
Comdata has released a new dashboard that will help fleet managers quickly identify and manage fuel spend.
Tomatoes imported from Mexico could face a supply chain squeeze caused by new regulations finalized in September between the U.S. Department of Commerce and Mexican growers, experts say. The new regulations call for up to 92% of imported Mexican tomatoes crossing the U.S.-Mexico border by truck to be inspected by officials from the U.S. Department […]
Break bulk is in a state of change… and experts are forecasting a shrinking of the world fleet and a possible winnowing out of players.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is working with the trucking industry to educate small fleets and owner-operators about advanced driver assistance systems that could reduce crashes and fatalities.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Milwaukee Tool builds $86 million factory in Torreón, Mexico; husband and wife truckers killed in a crash near El Paso; $1.6 million in cocaine found in carrot shipment; Texas college expands CDL program to attract more trucking students. […]
I.D. Systems, which renamed itself PowerFleet, will keep the Pointer brand, a well established player in the international wireless truck asset management space.
In this week’s Down Under Trucking – death by reckless driving; hill driving; trucker fired; police shoot tow truck thief; logistics industry urges government to ramp up!
Trucking market keeps rising against easy comparisons
Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden said that for the past year, positive unit economics has been Bird’s top priority for a sustainable long-term business. This is an ideology that departs from that of many startups and emerging companies whose focus seems to be on top line growth and revenue building.
A $455,000 settlement has been reached in a case involving a Tennessee-based trucking company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) following an investigation centered around the carrier’s former owner, who also served as its chief financial officer, and the company’s former ESOP trustee.
Sunset Transportation, a St. Louis-based third-party logistics (3PL) provider, recently opened a new customs brokerage office and warehouse facility at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. The new Laredo branch office will service the Mexico market with cross-border logistics solutions, Mexico and U.S. customs clearance, warehousing and transloading access. “We now have the capability to […]
PepsiCo is introducing 15 Tesla Semi electric trucks at its Frito-Lay manufacturing site in Modesto, California.
Walmart graduates first class from in-DC supply chain academy
