Trucking

Electric vehicle maker Tesla will reportedly soon announce its first automotive assembly plant in Mexico.

3PL Neovia has a higher debt rating from S&P but it still has a significant debt load.

Uber Freight and Volvo Autonomous Solutions are stressing patience over hype in working to digitally schedule loads for the truckmaker’s one-stop shop for all things autonomy.

Reliance Partners’ Mark Barlar provides a crash course on the DataQs process.

An Indiana trucking company owner claims his office manager of over 20 years — along with her husband — stole more than $600,000 from his affiliated companies over a five-year period.

Amazon has shifted middle-mile parcel deliveries to UPS and last-mile deliveries to the U.S. Postal Service, Jindel says.

Major auto hauler United Road saw its already-low debt rating affirmed, but the outlook was cut to negative as it continues to generate negative free cash flow.

Inflation has famously slammed the price of food and gasoline this year, but televisions and smartphones are historically cheap. What gives?

Safety training was once largely considered a one-size-fits-all endeavor, often consisting of in-person classes. That is no longer the case.

Meeting consumer demands is a team effort that involves shippers, carriers, retailers and technology providers.

Hydrogen provider Plug Power will buy 75 Nikola fuel cell trucks while processing hydrogen Nikola will purchase.

Texas has set up state-run checkpoints to stop and inspect random commercial vehicles coming from Mexico.

Less-than-truckload carriers are hopeful a recent round of general rate increases stick on the downside of the cycle.

A tax code throat punch promises to make gig work and online selling as fun as a trip to the morgue and as profitable as the average Mega Millions ticket.

U.S. lawmakers are proposing a requirement that restrooms at commercial buildings and ports be available to truck drivers.

Logistics M&A experts at a Benesch law firm conference don’t see any significant downturn in activity even as the freight market slows.

Tony Tzeng tells FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit that Transfix’s TrueRate+ program is designed to guarantee tenders with an optimal blend of price and service.

MIT researcher David Correll says more shared information in the shipping ecosystem could ease chronic issues.

Ryder’s Rob Pluta and Geotab’s Stephanie Voelker discuss how carriers and shippers can overcome technology fragmentation to create more efficient supply chains.

While the drive to secure new solutions is strong, adopting technology and digitizing processes in an industry that operates 24/7 may be challenging. We sat down with DDC FPO to learn how carriers should address these issues.