This week in Borderlands Mexico: Supply chain firms invest in new cross-border facilities; Japanese industrial supplier investing $5M in Mexico expansion; and Benchmark Electronics opens manufacturing facility in Guadalajara, Mexico.
FedEx founder Fred Smith died Saturday with a legacy as a great U.S. entrepreneur.
GXO Logistics has announced Patrick Kelleher as the new CEO and received approval for its Wincanton acquisition.
Grand jury indicts seven men on charges they targeted trucks for robberies.
New legislation would mandate that all truck drivers be tested for proficiency in speaking and reading English before being allowed on the road.
Attorneys in a $5 million Illinois trucking accident settlement hope their case brings safer changes to roadways.
DHL Express Canada was forced to suspend operations Friday. The company wants the government to override a new law prohibiting the use of replacement workers.
Canada Post has agreed to a new contract with its rural postmasters, but remains at loggerheads with its largest union.
Volvo Group and Daimler Truck have officially launched Coretura, a joint venture dedicated to developing a standardized software-defined vehicle platform for commercial vehicles.
One of the thorniest processes in trucking logistics may have been solved.
Freight fraud has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and financially devastating risks in today’s global supply chain landscape. With global cargo theft losses exceeding $80 billion in 2023 and the average cost of a successful fictitious pickup surging to $365,000 per incident in Q1 2024, the industry has been desperately seeking more […]
HTL Freight, the 3PL that has been acquiring other brokerages, has made its fifth purchase since 2021.
A stretch of Interstate 40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina border has been shut down from flooding and a rockslide according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation
The airport in Lyons, France, is significantly expanding its cargo infrastructure with the opening of a replacement terminal for DHL Express and construction underway on a general warehouse and pharma center to be occupied by Worldwide Flight Services.
Companies across the U.S. and Mexico announced more than 8,790 freight-related job cuts in recent weeks.
DAT and OTR, one-time partners involved in a lawsuit over factoring, have settled a legal dispute.
On June 8, 2025, a trailer carrying 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, valued at $1.4 million, was stolen, discovered missing during a pre-trip inspection at a Love’s Travel Stop in Bennett, Colorado. This major gaming hardware heist highlights the vulnerability of high-value cargo. Rising Cargo Theft Cargo theft surged 27% in 2024, with 3,625 incidents […]
Outpost, which has a $500 million pot of money to build independent terminals with parking, is opening four more outlets.
Echo Global Logistics has emerged as a standout performer in the freight industry’s battle against fraud, earning recognition as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards. With an impressive record of delivering over one million truckload shipments in 2024 while maintaining a loss rate of less than 0.01% due to theft, Echo has […]
An Ohio couple pleaded guilty to using four trucking companies they owned to obtain COVID-era loans.
