This week in Borderlands Mexico: As I-35 traffic worsens, SH 130 courts cross-border trucks; Nestlé Purina plans $100M factory expansion in Guanajuato; and Ryder adds major warehouse, yard capacity in northern Mexico.
Frances Hall has pleaded no contest to charges she was part of a multimillion dollar fraud scheme while she was co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking.
Averitt is preparing for a boom in cross-border shipments with a major expansion of its distribution and service center in San Antonio.
Authorities arrested four Mexican nationals in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found abandoned last year in a locked tractor-trailer.
DeLorean Motor Co. announces new electric vehicle production enterprise in San Antonio.
A brief look at what goes into getting turkeys on the tables in time for Thanksgiving; the newest freight alley in Texas; changes at the Port of Virginia; and a national holiday history.
GDC Technics has laid off 223 workers and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing a Boeing contract.
GDC Technics is permanently closing its San Antonio plant where most of the work on the Air Force One planes were done.
A tractor-trailer hauling a load of honeybees overturned Sunday, releasing a swarm in downtown San Antonio.
Amazon to build three facilities, create 1,500 jobs in San Antonio
San Antonio was at the top of the list for wait times for truckers in November and early December, increasing to as much as 7.7 hours, according to FreightWaves SONAR data. Normally El Paso and Laredo, Texas, are the worst offenders on or near the U.S.-Mexico border for trucker wait times. Logistics professionals said the […]
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: San Antonio secures $1.2B deal with manufacturers; United States ends Mexican tomato investigation; Otay Mesa adds industrial park along US-Mexico border; CBP seizes $1M worth of drugs at the Pharr International Bridge. Proximity to Mexico helps San […]
Toyota recently announced a $391 million investment at its Tacoma and Tundra assembly plant in San Antonio. In addition, Aisin AW, a Japanese auto supplier to Toyota in San Antonio, also announced it will be building a $400 million facility in nearby Cibolo, Texas, adding 900 jobs. “We’ve been in the United States for more […]
Lime moves ahead with the backing of venture capital and hopes that car-reliant metropolitan areas like San Antonio will embrace a cleaner, more communal way to navigate city life.
A federal grand jury indicted three Texas men – two truckers and a state worker – in connection with a scheme to sell commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) without the drivers having to take the required test, according to a report from the San Antonio Express-News. The indictment, which was handed down July 24 in a […]
Cold beers, grilled meat, guacamole and fireworks are part of many Fourth of July parties, and San Antonio is benefitting from inbound shipments as the national holiday approaches. The San Antonio market has strengthened over the past seven days with outbound volumes increasing 11.5 percent. The increase stems from long-haul van rejections as both van […]
W.M “Rusty” Rush III and his stepmother, Barbara Rush, continue to fight in a Texas court over the late W. Marvin Rush II’s estate. The death of 79-year-old W. Marvin Rush II (known as Marvin) – the founder of Rush Enterprises, one of the largest commercial truck dealership chains in North America – sparked a […]
Justin McDaniel’s custom truck shop, Outlaw Iron, has been dealing with a lot of “sarcastic comments and a lot of negative comments” since Sunday when a truck the company sold was found to be carrying illegal immigrants in the trailer, 10 of whom died.
Eight people were found dead this morning inside a trailer after a call by a Walmart employee directed authorities to the tractor-trailer. Police found a total of 38 people inside the trailer, 30 seriously injured.
