Trucking

Mexico’s legislature is considering proposals that would limit the permitted weight of double tractor-trailer trucks — called “fulles” in Mexico — to decrease truck-involved accidents and relieve traffic congestion. Cities across Mexico – such as Monterrey, Puebla, Jalisco and Mexico City – are also considering restricting speed limits and the time of day/night double tractor-trailer […]

Daimler Trucks is moving closer to its goal of commercially producing Level 4 autonomous trucks with public road testing in Virginia.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: U.S.-Mexico migration deal expires on Sept. 6;  Columbus, NM, gets new improved port of entry; rare invasive beetle species found in shipment of corn; and Marco Grajeda named director of New Mexico Border Authority. Mexican officials […]

Carnage on Australia’s roads continues as yet more truckers, passengers and vehicle drivers die. Meth-consuming, engine-tampering trucker caught. Pooper-scooper set up to salvage stink-truck. Drivers need to be thought about when designing vehicles, trade body says.

U.S. ports will see a rush of ships as they reopen, but Bahamas port sees severe damage.

The new e-commerce delivery paradigm poses legal risks that have not been thought through, noted attorney says

The U.S. container shipping industry is eager to weigh in on recommendations produced and approved by the Federal Maritime Commission that promise to bring clarity and fairness to the assessment of demurrage and detention fees.

National outbound tender volumes were up 3.6 percent year-over-year this week.

Bendix is growing its air disc brake manufacturing facility in Bowling Green, KY again, this time to the tune of $65 million and 100 new jobs.

Understanding all of your options when it comes to improving driver comfort

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission on Sept. 6 unanimously approved a set of recommendations to bring about fairness in the way demurrage and detention fees are administered by ocean carriers and marine terminal operators against American shippers. Commissioner Rebecca Dye delivered her recommendations to Chairman Michael Khouri and Commissioners Daniel Maffei and Louis Sola for […]

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control warns that companies providing bunker services must be careful not to violate the Iran sanctions, but there are exceptions.

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently issued 31% tariffs on structural steel imports from Mexico and 141% tariffs on steel from China. U.S. officials made a determination that producers in both Mexico and China had dumped fabricated structural steel on the U.S. market at prices below fair market value, hurting the U.S. steel industry. “The […]

Brokers’ gross margins will compress unless they get shippers on board.

But trade associations call for more certainty as political impasse continues.

In late August, Uber installed several self-service kiosks at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Pilot eLCV projects are planned in the U.S. next year with local production a long-term aim.

Maersk and Ports America onboard with app designed to optimize fraught process of picking up boxes.

The Washington State Supreme Court issued a decision September 5 stating that trucking companies are not obligated to pay drivers separately for “non-piece rate” activities. In the case of Sampson v. Knight Transportation, the court rejected the plaintiffs’ argument that the Washington minimum wage law requires employers to pay separately for time spent on non-piece […]

Federal agency finds company’s “Autopilot” technology played a role in 2018 accident.