Trucking

Around 55% of people in Mexico said they shop online to avoid leaving home during the pandemic, according to a new report.

Load factoring rates as low as 0% and fuel card savings of 63 cents per gallon are among the new benefits Convoy is offering trucking companies and owner-operators.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, trucking ponders its next move following President Trump’s payroll tax deferment order; Nikola receives a huge order; and a truck driver is sentenced for a crash that killed five.

Historically trucking fleets have invested in alternative fuel vehicles as a way to reduce the total cost of ownership, but environmental factors are now driving investment in zero- or near-zero-emission trucking technologies.

Fatigue may not play as much of a role in risky driving behaviors, but how long a commercial driver has been driving does, according to new research.

Mesa Airlines flies small regional jets on small routes for mainline carriers. Now it’s stepping up a size to the Boeing 737 so it can haul cargo for DHL. Find out how they are getting ready for the new era of cargo.

Total charges were more than $30 million as part of strategic shift

Sale of TFS hits a dispute over status of more than half the assets in the deal

Workhorse Group lost a lot of money on paper because new borrowing was tied to its exploding stock price. But it has the cash on hand to build electric trucks into 2022.

Diesel engine leader locks up engine supply agreement with Navistar through 2026.

Driver pleaded no contest to five counts of vehicular homicide, gets five consecutive one-year terms

President Trump signed an executive order deferring payroll taxes, but the money may have to be repaid at a later date, leaving companies wondering whether they should continue to withhold the tax or not.

The U.S. Postal Service said it has restored access to its online tracking system after an outage hit customers on Sunday.

PayCargo has become a force in the online payment of freight transportation bills and now offers coronavirus-impacted shippers and forwarders credit lines to smooth their cash flow.

Brannon Kuykendall and Mike Ellis are taking on new roles.

Republic Services places largest single order in refuse market history, justifying Nikola’s decision to build its cabover Tre model in the U.S. after European launch in 2021.

The focus on stock price gyrations in Nikola Corp. overlooks a major part of its business plan — making and selling hydrogen fuel for its trucks and anyone who wants it.

The U.S. Postal Service’s online tracking system went offline on Sunday. It came two days after USPS announced an organizational overhaul

Three suspects are charged with murder after the deadly shooting of an off-duty Mississippi state trooper who was moonlighting as a truck driver for USPS.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican auto production breaks out of a slump; Trump approves a new international rail bridge; a Mexican carrier acquires 25 new Scania trucks; and officers seize more than $2.4 million in cash at San Diego ports.