North Carolina

3i Infrastructure-backed Regional Rail is adding Clinton Terminal Railroad to its assets in North Carolina.

Drone delivery firm Zipline launched a commercial service in North Carolina less than a week after obtaining a historic FAA certification.

Fourteen projects received matching grants to upgrade track and bridges.

A winter storm slammed the eastern U.S. over the holiday weekend (video forecast included).

These are six storms in U.S. history that have wreaked havoc on transportation at Christmastime.

The drone delivery company gets a big boost in North Carolina, where it now covers about 10,000 households with its delivery service.

The state-of-the-art terminal has rail-to-truck transfer capacity domestic and international containers and deploys automated container handling.

North Carolina-based carrier’s third pay raise in a year comes amid unprecedented freight volumes and demand for drivers.

The backyard drone delivery company just completed its third expansion in the state and is nearing airplane certification from the FAA.

A compilation of the past week in social media images includes a Rockies blizzard, Southern floods, a new California wildfire and more.

A wild animal bolts into the road, giving a trucker little to no time to avoid a collision. It could happen just about anywhere.

Truck drivers transported millions of dollars worth of contraband tobacco from North Carolina to Mohawk territory in New York as part of a U.S.-Canada smuggling ring that involved Hells Angels members and snowmobiles, according to federal prosecutors.

The FAA has approved a request from Flytrex to expand its drone delivery pilot program in North Carolina to include delivery to customers’ yards.

Officials say there’s no public health hazard after a truck carrying radioactive material crashed in North Carolina.

How quickly drone package delivery becomes a reality is dependent on a couple of factors, perhaps none bigger than whether the public is ready to accept it.

Bottomley Enterprises, a family-owned carrier, recently opened a new trucking terminal, adding around 100 jobs in Mount Airy, North Carolina.

A UPS expansion will create nearly 600 jobs and add $1.4 billion to North Carolina’s economy over 12 years.

CSX expects the construction of two new intermodal terminals, one in North Carolina and the other in Ohio, to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.

Strongest North Carolina earthquake in more than a century strikes Sunday morning: “It felt like a big locomotive going by and a big wave coming underneath the bed.”

City checks off many of the distribution center site boxes.

The acquisition will expand Regional Rail’s short line operations into North Carolina.

UPS operates first revenue drone flight for CVS, carrying drugs to customers

One more day of flooding, wind damage before Hurricane Dorian moves away from U.S. Parts of Canada are next.

Hurricane Dorian taking its time riding east coast, flooding communities along the way. Tornadoes, power outages, too.

Ports, coastal communities in southeastern U.S. still at risk from Dorian damage through rest of the week.

Major hurricane Dorian still on track to damage southeast U.S. coast.

Canadian transportation firm posts a 19 percent drop in revenue on tougher freight market on both sides of the border.

Furniture-makers may face long slog in adjusting to tariffs on Chinese imports; Autonomous freight trains to be tested

The lawsuit asserts that water “poured in through a gap in city levees,” and it says the gap was created by a railway underpass owned by CSX.

10 days after Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wilmington, much of the North Carolina coast is still flooded. Waters are forecast to gradually recede over the course of this week and into the weekend.

Nestlé commits to pumping the brakes on deforestation caused by palm oil production, Maersk surcharges are on the horizon, and Audi announces their plan to break into the electric vehicle market.

North Carolina, the second largest hog producing state, has concentrated its pig farms in the southern coastal region, precisely where Hurricane Florence made its most severe flooding impacts.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says not to travel in or to the state; Walmart grabs a 200K square foot foothold in NYC; the IMF says British economy will contract if no deal on Brexit; Freightos raises $45M; global seaborne coal trade grows 4%; Tesla’s having a hard time delivering cars.

It may no longer be a hurricane, but Florence is still expected to exact a toll on the Carolinas and then further inland over the next several days as the slow-moving storm drops rain measured in feet rather than inches across a wide swath of area.

Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas. Freight markets are reacting before the first rain drops have fallen.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency for all the state’s counties earlier today due to the threat of heavy rainfall and windy conditions.

Bulk trailers, including walking floor and end dumps, are commonly used for cleanup following hurricanes. The timing of Florence could create a capacity issue in the southeast for ag products as owners of these types of trailers shift to cleanup efforts.

FEMA stands ready to address the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has now issued a “Regional Emergency Declaration” for 13 states and the District of Columbia as the southeast braces for the historic storm.

Models predicting Hurricane Florence’s track are shifting the storm southward after it makes landfall, where it will hug the South Carolina coast and unleash extreme rainfall on the Carolinas.

With all the talk of the impact from Hurricane Florence as she comes ashore, likely in the Wilmington, NC, area on Thursday, much of the impact will take place for days and even weeks after the storm is long gone.

Storm surge and hurricane watches remain in effect for parts of the U.S. east coast, from Edisto Beach, South Carolina northward to the North Carolina-Virginia border.

Maximum sustained winds have increased to 140 mph with higher gusts, and Florence is now a category 4 hurricane and expected to worsen.

Latest update from the National Hurricane Center sees the storm reaching major hurricane status later today.

The North Carolina coast is especially vulnerable to hurricanes. FreightWaves spoke to executives at Lync America, a Chattanooga-based freight brokerage, about the trucking activity they’re seeing related to disaster preparedness.