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PS Logistics has expanded its flatbed network by acquiring Roane Transportation Services and its more than 170 drivers.

A canine alert led customs officers to nearly $1 million in methamphetamine hidden inside a produce shipment crossing the Texas border.

Fleetworthy’s new RADAR technology is designed to help fleet managers identify toll discrepancies, monitor spending and make operational decisions without manually searching through reports.

New policy statement questions earlier decisions involving customer-owned terminals and outlines stronger arguments against taking railroad property.

Walmart will significantly scale up its drone delivery network in partnership with Zipline, which will operate the small unmanned aerial vehicles from 300 new store locations and has raised $1.5 billion in new funding to build out a nationwide drone delivery capacity, the companies announced on Thursday. Zipline, the world’s largest drone delivery provider by […]

Conlio’s €6.4 million round, led by Piton Capital, targets the manual check European forwarders run on every load before carriers get paid and customers get billed

The number of workers employed in truck transportation in October was unchanged from September. That end result in the October report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released Friday, came from two developments. First, the BLS revised downward its initial figure on truck transportation jobs in September to 1,471,300 from 1,473,100.  And then the BLS’s […]

Mexico strengthened its position as the United States’ top trading partner in September at $96 billion.

Global container volumes surged in September despite mounting disruptions and rising freight prices.

The investment arm of Maersk’s corporate parent is expanding its international ports portfolio through agreements in Asia and Europe.

Ryder System (NYSE: R) has acquired Efficiency Enterprises, a company with a business model similar to what Ryder does in its Fleet Management Systems (FMS) unit.  Ryder, in a prepared statement, described Efficiency Enterprises as “a regional provider of fleet management, maintenance, and leasing solutions for trucks, trailers, and material handling equipment.” Those services line […]

Union Pacific CEO said his threat to raise rates on shippers in a now-released video was an attempt at humor.

The Teamsters are claiming victory for a group of “W-2” drivers at an Amazon facility in Indiana who sought representation by the union.  But as with the entire Amazon-Teamsters relationship, it’s complicated. In its prepared statement announcing the “march” on the company to demand it bargain for a contract, the Teamsters said it had unionized […]

Cargo theft involving parked trucks accounted for 42% of all incidents in Mexico during the third quarter , according to Overhaul.

Conrail has appointed veteran rail executive John Wright as its new corporate leader.

For most enterprises the first sign of a winter storm is still a broad, countrywide warning, the kind that tells a leadership team something is coming but says nothing about which lanes will fail, which distribution centers sit in the path, or which customer commitments are about to slip, and in a season shaping up […]

Rail regulator rejects railroad’s appeal in dispute over remarks allegedly threatening shippers opposed to Norfolk Southern merger.

Every December a towering evergreen rises on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and gets called the People’s Tree, but before a child from its home state flips the switch to light it, the tree has to survive something most of the public never stops to consider, a journey of more than 2,000 miles […]

The Garden Grove, California, company has raised more than $650 million since 2021. FedEx and THOR Industries participated as strategic investors in the new round

Humble Robotics raised a $51 million Series A to push its cabless, electric Humble Hauler into customer pilots, testing and early manufacturing for dock-to-dock freight.