Trucking

It takes a year of advance planning and up to 10 loads to move a single monster turbine.

Arbritrator’s award denies Atlas Air’s pilots’ request to negotiate a contract and instead imposes an arbitrated settlement on both sides

Heartland Express has acquired Millis Transfer for approximately $150 million.

FedEx Freight expands its last-mile delivery network to 19 US markets

Chris Henry, Program Manager, TCA Profitability Program IMAGE: JIM ALLEN/FREIGHTWAVES A weekly review of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that all trucking companies should be tracking on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. These standardized KPIs are the foundation of the TCA Profitability Program’s inGauge Benchmarking Platform  – the largest (and only) online benchmarking platform […]

The 2019 Chicken Sandwich Wars may have impacted the Popeyes supply chain.

Various predictions of doom are sprinkled through a document

Daimler is recalling more than 8,000 Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Sprinter vans because of a software defect that can dim or extinguish the rear taillights.

The Navy decides to migrate and consolidate logistics technology to the Cloud. Japan’s air freight industry has China as a roadblock. New York struggles to manage truck congestion.

Rapidly changing consumption patterns and increasing traffic bottlenecks in urban environs necessitate the evolution of transportation and its underlying business models to create a sustainable logistics future.

Avocado supplies are expected to return to normal after a summer shortage sent prices skyrocketing in July. Prices spiked in mid-July due to imports of avocados from Peru and Mexico tightening. In addition, the summer avocado harvest from California growers was down this season because of a heatwave in 2018, industry professionals said. “Peru imports […]

Partially synthetic lower viscosity 10W-30 and 5W-30 oils are supplanting the industry standard 15W-40 heavy-duty oil. The new formulas cost more but can bring up to 2 percent better fuel economy with longer intervals between changes.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation said it will move forward with the imposition of a second round of trade sanctions against Russia.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it will introduce “in the coming months” a new automated tool for importers and exporters to submit their electronic vessel manifest confidentiality requests to the agency.

CEO of Ovation Logistics hopes to have 70 to 80 percent of its fleet using zero-emissions vehicles by 2025.

The U.S. and Japan have reached a tentative trade agreement where Japan will buy more U.S. corn.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odessa, Texas, ranked #4 city for truck drivers; New U.S. Ambassador arrives in Mexico; Surgere sets its sights on Mexico supply chains; and Love’s Travel Stops opens location in Brownsville, Texas.  Study: Odessa, Texas, ranked as […]

Fund would be used to transition from diesel by 2030.

Union drivers, warehousemen employed by Starbucks distributor reject ultra-short contract

The summer doldrums were broken violently by an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and tweets