Trucking

The U.S. and Japan have reached a tentative trade agreement where Japan will buy more U.S. corn.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odessa, Texas, ranked #4 city for truck drivers; New U.S. Ambassador arrives in Mexico; Surgere sets its sights on Mexico supply chains; and Love’s Travel Stops opens location in Brownsville, Texas.  Study: Odessa, Texas, ranked as […]

Fund would be used to transition from diesel by 2030.

Union drivers, warehousemen employed by Starbucks distributor reject ultra-short contract

The summer doldrums were broken violently by an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and tweets

Mexico manufactured 104,214 buses, heavy-duty and tractor-trailer trucks in the first half of 2019 (January-June), up 36.50 percent compared to the same period last year. The data was released August 21 by Mexico’s National Association of Bus, Truck and Tractor Truck Producers (ANPACT). Miguel Elizalde, the president of ANPACT, said the increased demand for heavy-duty […]

The vast majority of Aussie truck drivers are either fat or obese and they have a terrible diets, new research has found. Meanwhile, New Zealanders fund electric vehicles and Aussie trailer maker reveals a shocker set of financial results.

Hino Trucks is already increasing its investment in a new plant in West Virginia, where it will build Class 7 and 8 trucks in addition to medium-duty models.

Lime moves ahead with the backing of venture capital and hopes that car-reliant metropolitan areas like San Antonio will embrace a cleaner, more communal way to navigate city life.

Trucking stands to gain, rail to lose if project moves forward.

Amazon, following a model in the U.S., will take an equity stake in Canadian cargo airlines Cargojet.

Multiple commenters expressed concern about carriers, shippers or brokers coercing drivers to operate in unsafe conditions under the proposed rules.

Transfreight Automotive Logisitcs Europe, a fleet with over 90 vehicles, has shut down.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaport complex halted the illegal import of Chinese-made firearm parts valued at $378,225.

A discussion of the state of the possibly revived trucking market and interviews from the floor of the Great American Truck Show will highlight this weekend’s edition of FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI). Co-host Tim Dooner is at the Great American Truck Show in Dallas. He’ll have an interview with Bruce Johnson, the vice […]

Spooked shippers are trying to lock in capacity ahead of the holiday push.

Trucking, freight and international forwarding business TIL Logistics (NZX: TLL) of New Zealand has reported solid revenues of NZ$355.1 million (US$226.94) and a small net profit after tax of NZD$4 million (US$2.56 million).

Company claims faster medical deliveries means faster patient treatment.

ATSG and Atlas Air continue to fight a contract battle with their pilots union as Amazon, which uses both airlines, watches closely with peak season approaching

TIA, ATA and OOIDA call provision to make CSA scores public “dangerous”