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OOIDA is urging U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to exempt cross-border truckers from vaccine rules implemented in mid-January.

Rishi joined the supply chain SaaS company in 2017.

Becoming an independent agent can provide workers with the autonomy and independence they crave, but knowing where to begin can be difficult

The owner of a Wisconsin fuel company admitted he defrauded investors out of nearly $6.3 million over a two-year period.

With protests showing no signs of easing up, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency Sunday for his city.

On-demand training and live sessions cover every aspect of today’s LTL sector to help share valuable supply chain industry expertise and insights.

AskWaves dives into the potential benefits and drawbacks of using blue hydrogen on the path to green hydrogen.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Vaccine mandate has varied impacts on Mexico cross-border trucking; Texas toll road truck traffic rises 57% year-over-year; Chinese ATV maker to build $152M plant in Mexico; and drug seizures surge at Texas-Mexico border.

Trucks, cars and supporters clog Toronto as protests tied to the Freedom Convoy come to multiple Canadian cities to protest vaccine mandates and other issues.

This week: DHL reaches its 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine delivery milestone, United Petroleum names its Driver of the Year and GXO donates over 20,000 pounds of food to families in Europe.

AskWaves lists the five most important actions driving schools need to take to comply with FMCSA’s new training regulation set to start on Monday.

Owner-operators and independent contractors say the defunct LTL carrier owes them thousands in escrow and maintenance funds, along with safety bonuses.

The latest government data reveals that an increase in truckers testing positive for drugs in 2021 was driven by cocaine and marijuana.

Navistar’s new CEO aligns with parent Traton Group in declaring batteries will be the ultimate solution to zero-emission transportation.

USA Truck beats fourth-quarter expectations and plans to grow revenue through expanding capacity east of Interstate 35 and doubling logistics business.

Michigan State’s Miller says the figures are undercutting any argument that the transportation industry is having trouble attracting adequate workers.

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The LTL carrier has ambitious plans for growing its footprint over the next two years.

For some truck drivers at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, the cause of protesting border vaccine mandates means putting up with uncomfortable bedfellows.

“There is an urgent demand for new and innovative ways to increase visibility and efficiencies in the supply chain and improve driver experience, and this investment from our new and existing partners is going to power us to fill that need,” says Platform Science co-founder and CEO Jack Kennedy.

Raul Saucedo, president and CEO of SBGroup, explains why Mexico is a good choice for your next international shipments.

The seasonally adjusted jobs number for truck transportation has now been more than the previous high level for two consecutive months.

Also on the podcast: Some numbers that point to why the diesel market is climbing.

Werner Enterprises beat fourth-quarter expectations and announced plans to grow revenue by 10% on average over the next five years.

USA Truck Inc. rode a robust freight and pricing market to revenue of $200.9 million and earnings per share of $1.38 during the fourth quarter.

“A complete transition to ZET technology would not only help mitigate the impacts of climate change and poor air quality but could eventually lower total cost of ownership for fleets and create job growth in the U.S.,” the report said.

Nearly a year and a half into a tight truck market and carriers continue to raise driver wages. Midwest Carriers and CFI are the latest to announce increases.

The introduction of the entry-level driver training rule is a boon for truck safety and could help reduce the industry’s driver shortage and retention concerns.

It took a delicate dance by truck manufacturers and fleets in January to keep Class 8 orders from adding to the industry’s huge backlog.

Schneider provided a better-than-expected earnings outlook for 2022 on Thursday. The company also raised margin targets in two key segments.

Supply chain challenges and higher material costs dented profits, but Cummins Inc. posted record revenues in 2021.

Donations to Freedom Convoy 2022 had reached CA$10 million on GoFundMe, which paused the fundraiser and said it wanted to “ensure the funds are going to the intended recipients.”

The truckload carrier’s OR is one of the best in the industry but it’s being done on a smaller base of business.

Truckload carriers have been raising pay for 18 months now to meet heightened demand. But when this trucking cycle cools, don’t expect wages to follow in lockstep.

Traffic is beginning to move at the U.S.-Canada border in Coutts, Alberta, after protesting truckers agree to reopen some lanes.

Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. reported better-than-expected adjusted fourth-quarter results Wednesday after the market closed.

Trucking regulators have issued updated guidance that could help new drivers get on the road faster.

Wabash retires its legacy brands to focus on the company name as its swollen backlog all but closes 2022 order books except for multiyear purchases.

RLS Logistics builds out its national cold storage network with two acquisitions.

Top executives resigned at ELMS Inc. following a board probe into their discounted stock purchases before a SPAC merger.

Los Angeles-based Virgin Hyperloop, formerly Virgin Hyperloop One, has raised more than $400 million in private capital since its founding in 2014.

Less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion raised its long-term margin target when it released better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday.

Pitney Bowes’ Nita Lathia becomes head of marketplaces for Passport.

While major parcel carriers offer a one-size-fits-all service under the guise of simplification, ACI Logistix applies a consultative approach.

By gathering this information at pickup, DDC Sync is enabling near-time logistics planning and cross-team communication that can be made before a truck ever makes it back to the terminal.

Shippers may benefit from limiting the number of partners they work with in a loose market, but this exclusionary approach has become a serious — and seriously expensive — problem as capacity has tightened and rates have climbed to record highs.

Saia’s operating ratio was up more than 500 basis points in Q4 2021 compared to the final quarter of 2020.

Despite strong revenue growth, freight broker productivity fell sharply.

TuSimple advances its commercialization timetable for driverless trucking and adds intermodal freight for Union Pacific at the Port of Tucson in Arizona.

Police are taking action to remove a truck blockade at the U.S.-Canada border that stranded some cross-border drivers.

Bottlenecks and a lack of transportation capacity led many retailers to order extra merchandise in the fall. Inventories are now piling up at points along the supply chain for some companies because they still can’t find the transportation to move the goods, a supply chain survey finds.

UPS posted its best quarterly operating profit in its history. It also declared a 49% dividend increase.

Computer glitches are being blamed for the delay of the Project Infinity rollout that some fear could break up long-standing relationships with carriers.

After investigators uncovered a variety of safety violations, Adversity Transport was issued a federal out-of-service order on Jan. 25 forbidding the company to operate.

Canadian trucking firm Pride Group Logistics dramatically expands its U.S. presence with the acquisition of Texas truckload carrier Arnold Transportation Systems.

ArcBest raised long-term expectations Tuesday in conjunction with its fourth-quarter results, which were better than expected. The company now eyes doubling its size by 2025.

Daimler Truck North America and two partners plan to spend $650 million to build public electric charging for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

Forager founder and CEO Matt Silver will continue to work closely with his team as Arrive’s vice president of cross-border solutions.

As competition for truck drivers heats up, fleets need to take steps to improve their recruiting, hiring and onboarding processes to find candidates and get them into trucks.

WorkHound’s “feedback loop” is an anonymous way for quick driver comments to get into the hands of trucking companies.

ArcBest on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter results, which once again outpaced analysts’ expectations.

A lack of restroom access for drivers still plagues the trucking industry.

Chicago-based on-demand freight marketplace closes on $200 million series D round.

Here’s what it looked like in the middle of the “Freedom Convoy” protest In Canada.

Rene Garcia was arrested in May 2021 while attempting to drive a truck hiding 51 migrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas.

In affiliation with Ryder, FreightWaves’ data team recaps Q4 and highlights the trends that are likely to have an impact in the first half of this year.

J.B. Hunt Transport acquires less-than-truckload furniture carrier Zenith Freight Lines from Bassett Furniture.

The two rules are designed to work together, one aimed at OEMs and the other at buyers of their products.

Truckload operator Werner Enterprises is an early evaluator of the latest powertrain technologies, including a hydrogen-powered Cummins engine.

Class 8 equipment orders are impacted by customer cancellations and OEMs bound by the turning of calendar pages.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: KlearNow aims to solve cross-border customs challenges using AI; Link EV Electric Vehicles will build a $265 million factory in Mexico; Loup Logistics acquires a Phoenix transload facility; and a new cold storage facility is set for San Antonio.

Truckers and supporters from the Freedom Convoy pack Ottawa in a morphing protest that originally focused on vaccine mandates at the US-Canada border.

This week: Werner launches its cookbook, Women in Trucking offers ideas for safer training programs and UPS donates $1.25 million to advance underrepresented entrepreneurs.

Decades of discord over employee benefit cuts at Navistar could end soon with a $742 million settlement.

Officials for GoFundMe said organizers of the Freedom Convoy fundraiser have provided a distribution plan for covering participants’ fuel costs.

North Dakota, spurred by the closure of key delivery companies, is looking at several steps to increase the number of CDL holders in the state.

A federal grand jury indicted two former trucking employees of Roadrunner Temperature Controlled, alleging the pair orchestrated a scheme to steal nearly $113,000.

Volvo Trucks pulled out the stops to deliver in Q4, but it cost extra for expedited shipping and to navigate parts shortages.

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

Voie, the group’s founder, still plans to retire in July 2023.

Reliance Partners’ Safety Team is set to roll out a Trucking 101 series to tackle the skills every trucker should know but hasn’t been taught.

Shippers are buoyed by the promise of falling rates in the coming months, but this optimistic outlook may put even more strain on rate negotiations in the meantime.

A Florida trucker with U.S. and Canadian citizenship explains why he joined the Freedom Convoy despite being vaccinated against COVID-19.

Growers in the Rio Grande Valley are also having to contend with everything from labor shortages to higher fertilizer prices to rising transportation costs.

Merchants Fleet CEO Brendan Keegan discusses the company’s 2021 performance and his outlook for this year.

Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is unveiling a three-year strategy to work toward zero fatalities and serious injuries involving cars and heavy trucks.

In a time when many trucking companies struggle to retain and hire drivers, the U.S. Xpress recruiting team is achieving double-digit, quarter-over-quarter hiring growth.

The Chattanooga, Tennessee-based truckload carrier said the outlook is for continued operational progress during 2022.

Freight broker Landstar closes 2021 with another beat-and-raise quarter. Demand has yet to buck normal seasonal trends, indicating the first quarter will be strong as well.

In an appeals court filing, OOIDA defended its support for changes in federal work rules for truck drivers.

Difficulty in getting land zoned for trucking is an impediment to terminal expansion, Gantt says.

Knight-Swift Transportation reported another big quarterly result Wednesday. However, it appears the stretch of rapid growth will moderate as the comps have stiffened.

Every region except the Southwest moved less volume than in Q3.

FreightWaves Ratings is extending an invitation to private carriers to be considered for the inaugural list.

Tula Technology’s engine controls could clear a major hurdle for trucking companies facing tougher emissions rules.

GoFundMe says it needs to know how organizers of the Freedom Convoy will distribute money to truckers who are heading to Canada’s capital to protest cross-border vaccine mandates.

Less-than-truckload carrier Saia announced a 7.5% general rate increase Tuesday. The carrier was the latest to announce rate hikes greater than the normal mid-single-digit increases.

Marten’s labor and purchased transportation costs were higher in 2021 but were more than offset by rising revenue.

The Biden administration is releasing $246 million in FY22 funding to help complete the Appalachian Development Highway System.