Martinez also said the process has begun to look at the overlapping rules regarding agriculture transportation, and he clearly doesn’t favor California’s separate rules on meal breaks.
Hurricane Michael’s forecasted track will take it right over the primary cotton producing region in Georgia and South Carolina, and heavy rain could threaten the harvest of the crop, now in its most vulnerable phase.
The stars are aligning for the 2018-2019 Atlantic grain season to give dry bulk shipping a much-needed boost.
Able Freight Services, a leading global cold chain logistics provider with 25 years in business, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry.
Ripe.io provides enterprise blockchain technology for the food and agriculture industry in an effort to create greater trust and transparency between food producers, contributors and consumers.
Hurricane Florence has intensified over the last 24 hours Riskpulse’s Chief Meteorologist, Jon Davis, and its Senior Weather Analyst Mark Russo explained in a webinar on Tuesday.
Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union are among those who have instituted retaliatory tariffs on cranberry imports coming from the United States. FreightWaves spoke with Kellyanne Dignan, Ocean Spray’s Director of Global Corporate Affairs, who provided the company’s perspective on the issue.
Nestlé is the latest company to turn to blockchain technology to ensure the safety of their supply chain, particularly narrowing in on the ingredients that go into the baby food purees and pouches produced by Gerber.
Despite repeated efforts, confusion still reigns when it comes to hours-of-service compliance and when drivers can use personal conveyance or the agriculture exemptions available.
With Chinese tariffs on cherry imports rising to 50%, the Pacific Northwest braces for the impact on the 2018 season.
Although Brazil’s massive truck strike has come to an end, the ramifications are still rippling through the country’s supply chain, and it looks like it could take certain industries up to a year to recover.
Freedom of movement in the 150-mile radius, and a loosening of the rules to get somewhere safely are part of FMCSA’s latest guidance.
Freedom of movement in the 150-mile radius, and a loosening of the rules to get somewhere safely are part of FMCSA’s latest guidance.
The hard reality is that very little is getting passed in this Congress, and ELD-related legislation would need to break that pattern late in the game.
The latest case of E. coli outbreak is just another example of the impressive capabilities already at our disposal.
There’s a quiet spot market nationally, but we’re seeing significant upward movement for reefers coming out of California’s agricultural regions.
The threat of retaliatory tariffs on American agricultural products could hurt wheat exports, which are already struggling to compete on the international market. Railroad grains volumes in 2018 YTD are down, in many cases by double digits.
April 1st promises a surge of HOS violations; Uber pulls out of Southeast Asia; China starts trading oil futures; US Customs looks to upgrade their digital tools; Kansas City Southern hit by new tax bills.
The exemption does not apply to the wider agriculture industry, like a recent FMCSA break.
Perhaps one of the problems for the lack of transparency and widespread adoption of technology for farmers and the agricultural community at large, is the association of bitcoin with blockchain. While the two have emerged into the mainstream at about the same time, and, yes, both are virtual, they are two different things. Blockchain is […]
