Weather and Critical Events

Container ships at California ports may have to run on their diesel instead of using onshore power.

Nearly 1 billion bushels of corn and soybeans were wiped out. “It can take a chunk of truck loads away that would normally move.”

Atlantic hurricane season is staying busy with a well above average number of storms so far.

Nearby secondary route also off-limits to large commercial vehicles.

Truckers will have to take extra care of themselves, their trucks and their temperature-sensitive freight.

Severe winds, large hail and flash flooding could slow down truckers from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes.

Dry, windy weather could spread the wildfires quickly or start new ones.

Record high triple-digit temperatures could scorch key trucking markets in four states.

Tenth tropical storm of the 2020 Atlantic season could brush by Caribbean islands later this week.

Temperatures of 110 to nearly 120 degrees likely for several days.

Gusty winds, large hail could delay truckers in top 25 markets this week.

Strongest North Carolina earthquake in more than a century strikes Sunday morning: “It felt like a big locomotive going by and a big wave coming underneath the bed.”

Experts “anticipate an above-normal probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline.”

Gusty winds, large hail and a few tornadoes could slow down freight flows at times.

Areas drenched by Tropical Storm Isaias are at highest risk of flooding Thursday.

At least five people are dead because of flooding, wind and tornadoes produced by Isaias.

Tropical storm conditions today from mid-Atlantic to New England.

Restrictions on commercial vessel movement could get tighter today.

Isaias weakened from hurricane to tropical storm over the weekend.

No ship-to-shore operations at Port Canaveral until further notice.