Trucking

Aerospace industry supplier wants to turn supply chain into a competitive advantage.

John Flynn is convinced that safety equipment on heavy-duty trucks saves lives and could reduce nuclear verdicts. His company, Fleet Advantage, is taking a financial risk to prove his point.

TFI engages in a bidding war over CT; creditors committee highly critical of deal on CCC.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican export factories back to work; Texas seaport awarded road improvement grant; Canadian company plans $26 million Texas distribution center expansion; $2.5 million in drugs found in mattress shipment from Mexico.

The funding will support projects replacing airport, port cargo and forklifts with new zero-emission technologies.

Some shippers and some specific invoices can be chosen for accelerated payments, but not necessarily across the board

Trucker Glenn Green was proud to serve on the front lines as an essential provider of refrigerated goods. However, he’s not feeling the love after his COVID-19 workers’ compensation claim was denied. Photo: Glenn Green

Vast coalition of trucking-related groups and companies wants 12% fee to disappear through next year

Dan Crain profiles the important Newark, New Jersey logistics hub, as well as some of the logistics startups in the area.

Tender rejections strongest since March.

The release will report the majority of where the dollars went but not a majority of the individual borrowers

Nikola will break ground July 23 for an Arizona plant that will hire 2,000 workers to assemble battery-electric Class 8 trucks before moving on to hydrogen fuel cell models.

Provisions still face major scrutiny by Republican-controlled Senate.

Lordstown Motors will reveal its commercial electric pickup truck next week even as
the startup faces a deadline to raise hundreds of millions to convert a former General Motors car plant to truck production.

New loans under PPP were less than $2 billion last week, and there’s plenty left on the table

The Customs and Border Protection office in Buffalo reports a 4,000% jump in seizures of marijuana and other illegal drugs coming from Canada to the United States during the border closure to nonessential travel.

Tesla has submitted an application in Austin, Texas, for $68 million in tax incentives to build a proposed 5 million-square-foot manufacturing plant.

Mo-Vac’s terminal manager stated that truck drivers, including Fabian Escobedo, were ordered to work at least 100 hours per week and sometimes worked 19-24 hours straight.

A panel featuring OEMs and utilities discusses regulatory issues, incentives and technical solutions designed to make electric truck adoption more affordable and convenient.

To watch the stock of Nikola Motors, the company that has raised millions to produce a hydrogen-produced truck, you’d think that the day of the diesel engine was going to end soon.  But that isn’t the case. Allen Schaeffer, the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, joins host John Kingston on the Drilling Deep […]