This week in Borderlands Mexico: Toyota bets big on Texas; RJW Logistics adds fourth Dallas-area warehouse; and Gulf Coast Crating expands with industrial acquisitions.
A project opening next week is the final piece in a long project to improve truck access at the port of Savannah.
Trucking analysts are raising estimates ahead of the second-quarter earnings season, which begins next week.
A federal rule on seat belt strength is up for review after OEM objections.
Arizona commercial vehicle enforcement operation on July 1 resulted in 66 violations and seven out-of-service orders.
The pardons ended nine ordeals. The mandate that created them is still on the books, still in the field, and still pointed at the trucks that move America’s military freight.
The long-awaited proposed changes in a set of EPA heavy-duty truck regulations that loosely is referred to as “the NoX rule,” because its provisions are aimed at reducing emissions of that pollutant, were released by the agency Thursday as it declared the revised standards will not bring any changes to the cost of truck manufacturing. […]
A jury handed down a wrongful death verdict against Mesilla Valley Transportation in a case centered on alleged driver fatigue and safety policies.
Truckstop.com has officially launched its Advanced Voice Assistant designed specifically for on-the-road freight management.
One provider changed its name and lost a second device. Another lost two on the same afternoon. The registry doesn’t remember.
Logistics provider Quantix has named longtime executive Nate Gesse as CEO following the successful completion of a financial restructuring.
North American Class 8 truck orders jumped 241% year over year in June, underscoring rising fleet demand.
A $66.7 million judgment, a $38.8 million restitution order, and a sentencing date. What the court record says about trucking’s biggest insurance collapse, and who never got paid.
The battle over a proposal that would radically change the Amazon business model in New York ready to resume in coming weeks. (Photo: Jim Allen\FreightWaves)
Mexico has one of the world’s highest truck driver vacancy rates, according to the International Road Transport Union.
We’re auditing the people who write the laws MCSAP dollars enforce. We pulled every trucking bill in Congress, every name, and laid it against the crash data in their own states.
CBP officers seized 126.5 kilograms of suspected cocaine during a commercial vehicle inspection at the Hidalgo Port of Entry. Homeland Security Investigations has opened a criminal investigation following the June 24 seizure.
The SCOTUS decision stripped brokers of the federal preemption defense used for years to escape negligent carrier selection claims. Almost nobody is talking about the commercial leasing and rental companies that made the decision to hand a 33-ton vehicle to the carrier in the first place. Their legal shield was different and the Supreme Court published the map to it.
Trimble may be looking to sell its Transportation & Logistics segment.
Less-than-truckload carrier Mountain Valley Express confirmed that is has ceased operations.
