Cross-border trucking

Canada Border Service Agency employees have ended a day-long work-to-rule strike after reaching a tentative agreement with the Canadian government.

“It’s a true domestic and international cargo insurance product that brokers and carriers are now utilizing to win the highest-margin freight and strengthen ties with their current client base,” Mark Vickers said on shipper’s interest insurance.

The union representing nearly 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency personnel warns of slowdowns at Canada’s ports of entry starting Friday as it issues a strike notice.

Canada is reopening its borders to vaccinated Americans. AskWaves explains why this will help fuel demand for freight in the hospitality sector.

The Omaha, Nebraska-based transportation and logistics provider reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of 86 cents per share.

The union representing thousands of Canada Border Services Agency personnel warns of “significant disruption to the flow of goods” if its members go on strike.

The USMCA has brought about new opportunities for cross-border trade. Is your organization taking advantage of these changes?

Traffickers used trucks outfitted with secret compartments and hydraulically operated trap doors to transport millions of dollars worth of drugs from California and Mexico to Canada, police said as they announced the takedown of a suspected smuggling ring.

Canada’s requirement for commercial vehicles to use ELDs technically took effect Saturday. The trouble is no devices are certified for use, and true enforcement won’t come for another year.

Two brothers have been embroiled in a yearslong dispute over how to sell off their cross-border trucking business so that each gets a fair share.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes drugs from trucks on a regular basis. Lawyer Su Ross of MSK talks to Long-Haul Crime Log host Nate Tabak about what fleets and owner-operators need to know when drugs are found in one of their trucks.

North Dakota will begin giving COVID-19 vaccines to cross-border truckers from Manitoba as Canada contends with a slower vaccination rollout.

Trucking industry professionals said the misuse of B-1 visa drivers creates an unjust but significant savings to U.S. carriers that set up outsourced B-1 driver fleets at a lower cost.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: El Paso border crossing looks to rebound in 2021; logistics firm expands with Dallas shipping hub; Suddath acquires Texas-based Daryl Flood Inc.; and $2 million of meth hidden in shipment of rugs.

Cross-border platform Nuvocargo raised $12 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors.

Members of the trucking industry in the U.S. and Mexico allege that Mexican truck drivers are doing illegal runs inside the United States in violation of cabotage rules. FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast, Long-Haul Crime Log, investigates.

By and large, trucks from Canada and Mexico can’t move domestic loads within the U.S. But things get a little more complicated in the nitty-gritty of federal cabotage regulations.

Sahej Singh steps through Reliance Partners’ usage-based and API insurance offerings for the transportation and logistics industry.

A customs broker can help navigate cross-border freight. But companies should know what to look for in a customs brokerage.

Canadian trucking and logistics firm Titanium Transportation Group had a very good fourth quarter on the strength of its U.S brokerage business. But 2021 is set to be even bigger with its recent acquisition of ITS.