Dart Transit celebrated its 85 years in business and Truck Driver Appreciation Week earlier this month, awarding drivers raffle prizes that included a new pickup, boat and Polaris ATV. Also, fuel prices jump, France tests no-Brexit and trucking group pushes port improvements.
Parade helps freight brokers automate workflows, scale relationship management and grow digital bookings.
The weekly average retail diesel price posted Monday by the Department of Energy (DOE) was in the top 20 biggest one-week increases in the history of the data series – and particularly steep compared to upward moves in the last seven years. The DOE/Energy Information Administration (EIA) price posted Monday was $3.081/gallon, up from $2.987/gallon, […]
Lime’s shift away from car-sharing allows the company to transition into Seattle’s first electric-scooter-share pilot.
UPS was an early adopter of LNG, now it has its sights set on RNG.
Amazon to open its 7th fulfillment center in Ontario, Canada with a 1 million square foot building in Toronto
DDC FPO announced on Sept. 23 that Estes Express Lines will use its machine-learning, software-as-a-service (SaaS) program, DDC Intelligence, to mitigate its bill of lading volume.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued a proposed rule to promote “just and reasonable” demurrage and detention charges.
Traditional freight brokerages are ramping up technological spending to keep pace with the industry.
After a record year for orders in 2018, fleets and dealers are holding back on placing many new trailer orders, a situation that analysts say could improve in the fourth quarter.
Donald Tankersley, 76, former chief executive officer of White Dairy Ice Cream and Tankersley Food Service in Van Buren, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to two counts of tax fraud in federal court on Sept. 20.
European auto unions and trade groups have come out with a statement that warns of a seismic impact on the auto economies of the EU and the U.K. in the absence of a Brexit trade deal.
A Solera board member alleges that in 2017 Vista tried to force it to buy another portfolio company, Omnitracs.
As the gaps between tractors and trailers shrink through aerodynamic design, making connections safer is only one concern for standards-writing engineers who must account for autonomous trucking in the near future.
Customs and Border Protection explores electronic methods to capture data on the estimated 1.8 million package shipments valued at less than $800 arriving in the U.S. each day.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: San Antonio secures $1.2B deal with manufacturers; United States ends Mexican tomato investigation; Otay Mesa adds industrial park along US-Mexico border; CBP seizes $1M worth of drugs at the Pharr International Bridge. Proximity to Mexico helps San […]
A former New York State Department of Transportation engineer was sentenced to one year of probation in U.S. District Court in Albany, New York, after pleading guilty to misappropriating more than $17,000 from a road project.
Truck driver Terry Damon will receive a total of A$1.7 million (US$1.15 million) of compensation from his employer, a shipper and a consignee, after they collectively caused him to suffer a severe injury to his back.
German officials have unveiled a $60 billion climate policy package, one of several government and private-sector emissions reductions schemes that have been introduced ahead of next week’s UN climate summit in New York. The German plan, unveiled on Sept. 20, the day after Amazon announced a lofty pledge to go carbon neutral by 2040, featured […]
The one-two punch of torrential rains and heavy flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda has forced road closures and route changes for freight businesses in Houston and coastal Texas. “The road system in and around Houston has been significantly affected by flood waters,” said Troy Ryley, president of Redwood Mexico at Redwood Logistics. “This is creating […]
