Volvo Trucks North America is leading a partnership to get heavy-duty electric trucks and the infrastructure they’ll need underway in California.
Cathy Roberson writes about Beijing’s new airport – and plans for many new airports in China and what impact they may have on the economy of the country.
Charger Logistics’ new state-of-the-art facility in Laredo is up and running. The company aims to double its business in Mexico and grow overall capacity by 200 trucks and manage 600 trailers at the location. Charger Logistics, which has its United States headquarters in Indiana, will use the new Laredo facility to serve as the company’s […]
The blue-collar job market still uses conventional methods for sourcing and recruitment, making the industry highly inefficient, complex and opaque. Wonolo is automating the redundant manual processes to improve the situation.
FreightWaves’ Freight Intel Group has released a new study of the impact of IMO 2020 on the U.S. trucking industries (and other industries). Read what may happen to diesel fuel prices.
There’s already a lot of hand wringing about the outcome of the latest OPEC meeting. But the group has stepped aside for virtually the oil market’s growth in the last 10 years.
Analyst says 1.2 percent increase in June, largely in Ontario, represents a recovery from weak February and reflects the overall health of the economy.
More than $400 billion in freight crossed in both directions through the United States-Mexico border by truck in 2018. In Laredo, Texas, alone, more than two million trucks carried goods across the border last year. While President Donald Trump’s trade wars with Mexico and China have destabilized business markets, industry professionals said business along the […]
Executives talk fuel cells, Chinese joint ventures and why hydrogen-powered ferries are the next big thing.
FedEx preaches patience and looking beyond FY2020’s results. It will be a tough sell.
U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority served an initial enforcement order to both Amazon and Deliveroo over concerns about the transaction that took place during the latter’s fundraising in May this year.
RF Controls has a passive RFID tag solution that provides precise location tracking of tagged items over long distances that also works without batteries.
Two separate reports last week showed just how vulnerable trucks and trains are. Why are trucks and trains smashing into each other?
Walmart to open more than 10 DCs in China in next 1-2 decades
BMW and Daimler are collaborating on a long-term partnership to develop Level 4 self-driving cars that can drive autonomously on motorways and park without human intervention.
The driver of a tractor-trailer died during a deadly accident on July 3 after his truck was cut off by another vehicle and fell off the Houston Ship Channel bridge, crashing upside down onto an industrial facility below. The truck driver – who was identified by Houston police as 24-year-old Marcos Jasso – initially survived, […]
The Fourth of July weekend brings a record number of Americans on the highways, increasing accidents due to driving distractions, intoxication and even fatigue.
With IMO2020 just around the corner, FreightWaves Radio this weekend takes a look at how it might impact fuel markets. J. Scott Susich, the director of data analytics and advisory services at DTN, joined co-host John Kingston on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking for a discussion on how the regulation designed to reduce the amount of […]
The service problems associated with precision scheduled railroading (PSR) have motivated forest products and scrap recycling shippers to press the Surface Transportation Board to renew a longstanding request for regulatory oversight.
Truck driver Patrick Allen Boon must now serve nearly two decades in jail for beating his boss to death with a hammer and wrench in a two-stage attack.
