Trucking

Canadian judge approves heavy-equipment hauler’s plans to operate under creditor protection as CEO urges U.S. bankruptcy court to recognize proceedings.

Expeditors International sees digital platform acquisition as key to advancing its less-than-truckload shipping platform.

Startup’s request to extend driving limit and workday gets broad pushback.

The direct mail segment accounted for 23% of USPS 2019 revenue, which is decreasing as a direct result of the pandemic.

Trucker Tools’ Book-it-Now and predictive freight matching tools will now be available to users of financial services firm OTR Capital. Plus, major markets showing volume gains, DC truck protestors could return, and driver pay increased in 2019.

Program was for eight weeks, starting in April, setting up an end to some protection

Trucking and crane services provider pursues interim financing and court approval to market its Canadian and U.S.-based subsidiaries while under creditor protection.

Leasing companies say a neutral chassis pool lacks incentive to invest the tens of millions of dollars each year to maintain viable chassis equipment.

Opponents of increasing size standards for trucks fear permanent changes post-pandemic.

The payments have two weeks down, with company in arrears on payments

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: CBP beefs up security at US-Mexico border; Kenworth restarts truck factory in Mexico; Love’s Travel Stops opens new location in Laredo; Port of Brownsville ranks third for “financial resilience.”

U.S. retailers face two options: selling at a discount in the domestic market or going online to sell globally.

Dairy Max, Convoy team up to deliver fresh milk to food banks in Texas with plans to expand in other states

“The Impacts of COVID-19 on the United States, Mexico, and Canada Cross-border movements” webinar was presented by the Transportation Intermediaries Association.

The trucking market continues to heat up.

Car rental giant Hertz files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to reach an agreement with creditors; blames COVID-19 pandemic for economic freefall

Ontario-based Joseph Haulage buys Bergland Transport to build on its growing business serving agriculture and food sectors.

$26.5 million ‘nuclear verdict’ stands in fatal road-rage crash in Oregon

Data shows an industry that struggled, like the rest of the trucking market

Fleet Advantage offers book value cash and leasebacks to help trucking companies weather the economic crisis while banking on selling them new trucks down the road.