Trucking

A new cap-and-trade carbon emissions bill unveiled in Oregon last week continues to draw criticism from the trucking industry that helped derail similar legislation last year. “If you look at the latest version for the upcoming session, it’s not much different than [last year’s] House Bill 2020,” said Jana Jarvis, head of the Oregon Trucking […]

Fuel is the second-largest expense for trucking fleets, after labor. Every penny a fleet saves on fuel goes directly to the bottom line. Predicting where wholesale rack diesel prices will go has always been tricky. SONAR, FreightWaves’ forecasting platform introduces next day wholesale rack ULSD predictive prices.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Toyota begins production at its new Tacoma plant in Mexico; fatal shooting reported at family-owned trucking company in San Antonio; new superintendent appointed for international commercial bridges; and CBP seizes $1.5 million in cocaine inside shipment […]

Bankrupt Celadon receives $14.5 million bid for Taylor Express as it plans liquidation of remaining assets

(Updated with comments from Love’s spokeswoman on size of growth in 2019). Love’s Travel Stops’ growth plans this year are in line to slightly more aggressive than those of 2019 and 2018. In a prepared statement Thursday morning, the truck stop and store operator said it was going to open “up to” 40 stores this […]

Sale of Winnipeg terminal for C$4.25 million to commercial real estate firm appears set to be tied up in Canadian courts, where U.S. trucking giant’s failure to initiate timely bankruptcy proceedings north of the border may come back to haunt it and its creditors.

An overview of driver feedback trends found high rates of satisfaction with co-workers and staffing issues.

Freight volumes and tender rejections range-bound for now

Jim Blaze explores the decline of railroad freight volume and what may happen going forward.

Trucking insurance premiums have skyrocketed in recent years, driven by nuclear verdicts, but instead of complaining, trucking companies should take steps to stop incidents from happening.

The expansion is roughly in line with those of recent years.

After making four investments totaling $12 million in electric truck systems supplier TransPower, Meritor is acquiring the rest of the company.

Fleet failures and bankruptcies contributed to a 14% decline in prices in 2019.

Starting early Thursday, small-business truckers who rely on the spot market began reporting problems logging in to the DAT load board to find freight.


A wide range of officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as well as trucking associations on Thursday praised the new trade deal among the United States, Mexico and Canada, after the U.S. Senate passed the deal, sending it to President Donald Trump for his signature. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) passed the Senate […]

With an impending breakup of the company, XPO Logistics will look like a far different company as the century’s third decade dawns.

The order will stay in place until the CTA case action is concluded.

Jevic Transportation was founded in 1981 in Delano, New Jersey by Karen and Harry Muhlschlegel. The Jevic name was a combination of the names of the three Muhlschlegel children. Founding a trucking company just one year after deregulation was ambitious, but the gamble proved profitable. Jevic enjoyed prosperity throughout the 1980s and the early 1990s.

GlobalTranz, already among the largest brokerages in the nation, grew a bit more with the acquisition of 3PL Cerasis.

Truck manufacturers claim improved aerodynamics could save a driver up to 400 gallons of fuel a year.