Caterpillar

David Bozeman may have a ways to go to get comfortable at C.H. Robinson, but he has been around the block.

3PL company Neovia has a new capital structure, but S&P Global Ratings still views it as having a large hill to climb.

Wabtec and Progress Rail selected as suppliers

1961: The first of a complete line of lightweight, compact, heavy-duty diesels for the over-highway trucking industry by Caterpillar, the 1673 has been tested on some 200 trucks throughout the nation.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Avocado imports from Mexico fare well during pandemic; Caterpillar’s Texas distributor building new factory; General Motors to make masks in Mexico; new logistics app aids supply chain.

The rail equipment manufacturer and lessor has tapped a Caterpillar executive and Trinity board member to head the company.

Private equity firm Paceline acquires a maintenance-of-way equipment lessor from Progress Rail, a Caterpillar subsidiary.

Caterpillar Inc. notified 120 workers at its Victoria, Texas, facility that they will no longer have a job effective, November 1. Company officials said “market conditions” are the reason for the layoffs. “Caterpillar notified a portion of its Victoria, Texas, workforce that it is taking actions to bring production in line with demand,” according to […]

The door to TRATON Group selling trucks in North American opened a crack with a memo of understanding between Navistar and TRATON to sell Scania mining trucks in Canada.

But a lot depends on stabilizing global growth and an industrial recovery in the United States.

The Shell Rotella Super Rigs is among the more attractive beauty contests for trucks because every entrant has a chance, winner or not, to end up in Shell’s Super Rigs annual wall calendar.

Global equipment manufacturer Caterpillar’s (CAT) second quarter earnings disappointed analysts. The company cited a combination of tariffs, weaker sales in China and slower growth in the Permian Basin for the declines. The Deerfield, Illinois-based company reported a 5.1 percent decrease in second quarter net income to $1.62 billion, or $2.83 per share, compared with $1.71 […]

Heavy-duty equipment maker tops estimates largely due to one-time tax gain, but the mining business does show better growth.

Warehousing employment surges as Amazon and Walmart are swamped by holiday online orders; UPS aircraft mechanics threaten to go on strike.

Augmented reality is a concept that sounds like jargon at face-value, but in effect, could help digitally transform the freight industry. AR is now ubiquitous in the freight niche – from floating insights while on the road about vehicle mechanics and on-road intelligence to bolstering warehouse logistics.

One comic character in the Hollywood film “Prince of Persia” said that there are only two things that are permanent in this world – death and taxes. For some, proposed border taxes may sound like punishment for not supporting American-made products.