Walmart

The Walmart and Shopify partnership looks like it will shake up e-commerce as we know it.

Walmart bested analyst expectations as grocery and household items drive comparison sales 10% higher and ecommerce accelerates 74%.

Continental is shutting down its Roadlog ELD service, as of Aug. 14. Plus, FreightWAVES LIVE@HOME is one day away, Trump pushes severing of supply chain from China, and Walmart launches two-hour delivery.

Plus: Red Roof hotel offers trucker day rate; a Beijing to Berlin convoy

P.A.M. Transportation says it has temporarily laid off approximately 75 employees as auto plant closures increase.

Grocery stores curtail hours and enforce limits on staple purchases as coronavirus-induced panic buying empties store shelves of many items. High-touch retailers shutter stores.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Walmart opens new distribution center to meet e-commerce demand; border officials lobby for funding of new truck and railway bridges; two Texas seaports receive $39 million for improvements and expansion; Mexican manufacturing association creates coronavirus prevention task force.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced today that it is closing all its retail stores outside China in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The company has about 500 stores globally and had previously shut its China stores during the outbreak in that country. Those stores reopened today. The question now is, will other retailers follow suit […]

Good day, StradVision, an AI-based camera perception system, has announced it is developing animal detection capabilities for its SVNet software, which is used in advanced driver assist systems as well as autonomous vehicles. StradVision CEO Junhwan Kim said in a statement that the new software will “almost completely end” collisions between animals and vehicles. In […]

‘Strong sales’ in February are expected to continue through Easter. Disruptions to the company’s supply chain continue to be monitored.

Company seeks stay from federal court while it considers Supreme Court appeal.

Good day, Uber Freight has announced a partnership with  Samsara, an electronic logging device (ELD) and fleet management solutions provider, to help carriers with six or more trucks lower their overhead costs and manage their fleets more efficiently.  According to the terms of the partnership, eligible carriers that use Uber Freight will receive a $50 […]

“No decisions” on next steps after appeals court ruling on sleeper berth petition.

$54.6 million in back wages at stake for drivers in California.

LNG growth expected to double by 2040; shipment volumes in U.S. plunge y-o-y; grocers take control of shelf space.

Walmart’s fiscal fourth quarter comes in light of expectations as holiday activity was lower than expected.

Darren Prokop writes about the volatility in trucking, and how ecommerce may help less-than-truckload carriers recover in 2020.

CRST, U.S. Xpress also support petition to review decision awarding $54.6 million to drivers.

Hey hey hey, welcome to the workin’ weekend! We never hesitate to jump right in and hit you with the headlines: TA Logistics claims Celadon was insolvent in late November 2019, and for fear that future access to the shared IT system would again be blocked, and the failure to remit millions of dollars in […]

Walmart argues that jury took things too literally in awarding back pay to California drivers