Trucking

New economic demands from striking UAW employees at Mack Trucks brings a strong retort from the truck maker.

Can Hyliion pivot to make stationary generators the base of its business as it decides whether to pursue the Hypertruck ERX?

Knight-Swift Transportation beat lowered third-quarter expectations Thursday and said the market appears close to a tipping point.

Triumph Financial’s earnings saw a tighter EBITDA loss at TriumphPay and a largely flat average invoice price in its transportation factoring business.

The cross-border trucking industry is recovering from a migrant surge and Texas inspections, trade officials said.

Transfix has closed a $40 million Series F funding round during “one of the most challenging markets in freight history,” company officials said.

Prospective acquirers are looking at Convoy’s platform and engineering and product teams.

Digital brokerage Convoy is closing, with no buyer coming in to rescue its operations.

Pam Transportation Services sees truckload fundamentals weaken further during the third quarter.

The impacts of double brokering are felt by carriers and brokers alike, disrupting operations and causing financial and liability risks for everyone involved.

A third-generation family-owned trucking company and brokerage — Certified Freight Logistics, headquartered in Santa Maria, California — is ceasing operations on Saturday after 95 years, citing “falling freight rates and reduced volume.”

Proterra Inc. has extended the bankruptcy auction dates for its three electrification business units while it continues in business.

Nikola will replace battery packs in its electric trucks following several fires. The pack is a high-cost component.

Automaker Tesla’s plan to build a factory in Mexico could be delayed past 2025, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday.

Industry could see more freight brokerage closures amid a changing financial climate.

Truckload carrier Marten saw its earnings fall from a year ago and detailed how much of that was caused by higher fuel prices. 

Volvo Group reported strong third-quarter results but reported slowing orders as trucking demand returns to normal.

Digital brokerage Convoy has canceled all shipments and shut its load board, with an announcement of its future upcoming.

U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., argues that a long-standing tax on new trucks is an inefficient way to sustain the ailing Highway Trust Fund.

Cass’ shipment data was up sequentially for a second straight month in September and the truckload linehaul index was positive for the first time in more than a year.

FreightTech company Flock Freight’s chief revenue officer has departed after eight months. The company also is cutting positions on its social and creative teams.

Lingong Machinery Group is investing $5 billion to build a plant and industrial park in northern Mexico

Activist investor Ancora said it will move to remove Forward Air’s board and CEO if a Tennessee court rules a shareholder vote on the Omi merger is warranted.

J.B. Hunt’s overall financial performance in the third quarter was weak, but slight strengthening in intermodal volumes was celebrated.

FedEx Ground two-day shipments must ship by Dec. 20 to arrive on or before Christmas Eve.

Tuesday filings before a Delaware bankruptcy court are asking for the use of professional auction houses in the disposition of Yellow’s trucks and trailers.

American Trucking Associations CEO Chris Spear uses his annual address to urge motor carriers to fight for industry well-being.

The California Trucking Association has filed suit in federal court, seeking to block implementation of the California Advanced Clean Fleets rule.

Roadrunner announced Tuesday a new service that waives 100% of the freight bill for shipments that don’t arrive on time.

Supply chain software provider e2open has a new shareholder in activist investor Elliott Management.

Data reveals 2023 will be a record year — by far — for commercial carrier shutdowns ordered by the government for new carriers.

New technologies are hitting the market daily, and these tools are capable of improving everything from driver selection to litigation outcomes.

After a week of striking by 3,900 workers in three states, bargainers at Mack Trucks and the UAW will resume talks Thursday.

A Shipware analysis finds the rate and surcharge tables of UPS and FedEx look unsurprisingly alike.

The logistics industry is collaborative by nature, and project44 regularly embraces partnerships to create and improve data-driven solutions for their customers. Over the past few years, Google Cloud has become one of the company’s most impactful partners.

Averitt is well positioned to be a shipper’s comprehensive transportation and logistics solutions provider with a gamut of services including port drayage, distribution and fulfillment, truckload, LTL, cross-border and nearshoring logistics, and final-mile transport.

Reliance Partners brings per-load Shipper’s Interest coverage to freight brokers and carriers to their TMS, providing protection on cross-border, international, LTL and high-value shipments.

The proliferation of freight brokerages is giving truckers a lifeline.

The shaky U.S. economy occupied the No. 1 spot for motor carriers in the latest American Transportation Research Institute survey of top trucking issues revealed by ATRI President Rebecca Brewster.

This week in Borderlands: Mexico remains top US trade partner in August, Laredo No. 1 gateway; Eden Green begins $40M vertical farming expansion near Dallas; Production, exports of Mexican-built trucks fall for second straight month; and Port of Brownsville receives $11.5M to overhaul cargo dock.

With the last mile the most complicated part of the shipping process, new solutions could help, but it will take a strong balancing act.

An electric vehicle charger without data intelligence on when it is available and operating is like a hot dog without a bun.

California says, once again, that the state’s trucking sector is holding up under AB5.

The International Trade Commission terminated a patent infringement claim by lidar maker Ouster against Chinese competitor Hesai.

The state of Texas has resumed commercial truck safety inspections at a Laredo border crossing amid backlash from the Mexican president and trade operators.

The nature of lithium-ion batteries — and the gasses they produce while burning — make it difficult for even the most prepared fire departments to extinguish these fires.

“There is no good lane or bad lane or good deadhead or bad deadhead. There is only a focus on what is a good route for the driver to maximize their profitability,” says aifleet co-founder and CEO Marc El Khoury.

A 40-year-old Montana trucking company and freight brokerage has shuttered operations, leaving nearly 275 truck drivers and office personnel without jobs.

Like with most shippers, 2022 started out tough but by the beginning of 2023 it had all changed. In this Q&A, Fresh Del Monte VP describes the stark difference.

Owner-operators say Titan Transportation Services Inc., doing business as Sunset Logistics, still hasn’t refunded their $1,000 in escrow or maintenance account funds that were withheld from their paychecks after the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based company abruptly ceased operations on Sept. 29.

A Tennessee court will take more time mulling over a complaint from shareholders claiming they have the right to vote on Forward Air’s merger with Omni Logistics.

Executives for shuttered logistics operator Tiger Cool Express have restarted an intermodal project in Washington state.

India’s population — and its designation as the most populous country in the world — is one of its biggest advantages. The sheer number of people in India contribute to both the nation’s plentiful workforce and its huge consumer market.

Truckers under age 21 serving the agriculture sector will continue to receive an exemption to avoid interference from law enforcement.

Startup Hyliion Holdings is pausing orders of its Hypertruck ERX as costs rise and electric trucks get better.

Supply chain software provider e2open has parted ways with its CEO while the CCO has laid out problems with its sales operations.

Uber Freight has rolled out new technology solutions for its TMS, procurement and use of generative AI.

Advances in the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 provide hints to the next Freightliner eCascadia.

OSM follows the lead of work-share partner U.S. Postal Service in not imposing peak-season delivery surcharges.

A quarterly survey of shippers suggests the trucking market is still distanced from a material recovery.

Blasting inspections, Mexico’s president says Texas’ governor has a “hostile attitude.”

Trucking companies and drivers will see shorter windows on regional emergency exemptions provided by the agency.

Most of the styling and design ideas from Volvo’s SuperTruck 2 freight efficiency exercise probably won’t ever see production, but some might.

Not everyone will agree with the results of project44’s on-time parcel-delivery performance survey, the survey’s leader says.

Texas-based Arrive Logistics recently added an office in Toronto to service its growing Canadian customer base.

World Socialist Web Site pressures UAW by inflaming members to seek better deals than their negotiators bring.

Jeremy Daily, a cybersecurity expert and presenter at an upcoming conference on the issue, discusses the Estes hack in a Q&A.

The incumbent TMS provider is unifying its carrier and shipper platforms to generate network effects.

United Auto Workers-represented employees at Mack Trucks will strike for the second time in four years after rejecting a tentative agreement.

This week in Borderlands: Cargobot sees big opportunities with global cross-border trade; Lineage Logistics expands cold chain footprint in Texas; Stitch Fix closes Dallas logistics hub, lays off 558 workers; and Mexican seaport blocked as truckers protest wait times.

About 90 truck drivers and office personnel who worked for Titan Transportation Services Inc., doing business as Sunset Logistics of Grand Rapids, Michigan, say they are owed their final paychecks and escrow after receiving a string of emails from company executives notifying them that the trucking company was closing its doors.

A report by project44 said delivery performance was the highest since March 2020.

In this episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by a great industry friend and fellow compliance nerd, Stacey Gibson. Gibson is personnel operations manager at TLC Cos.

Even as a Wall Street bank counts up the possible losses at Estes, the LTL carrier tells customers things are looking up.

The Daimler Truck Board of Management has extended the contract of North America CEO John O’Leary through 2026.

Investigators still haven’t released the name of a truck driver who was fatally shot by an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper during a traffic stop that turned “physical” on the Turner Turnpike in Creek County on Sept. 20.

The September truck transportation jobs report, with revisions to August’s numbers, suggests some Yellow losses have been recaptured elsewhere.

Truckers save 35 cents a gallon on fill-ups with Georgia’s fuel tax suspension.

An integration among Reliance Partners, Loadsure and McLeod lets asset-based motor carriers and freight brokers obtain A-rated all-risk cargo insurance on a per-load basis directly from their TMS.

Trucks delivering products from Mexico continue to face hourslong waits at Texas ports of entry due to state-run inspections.

Families mourn the victims of a deadly Illinois ammonia truck crash as police locate a vehicle that may have been involved.

A federal judge has ruled that Total Quality Logistics — the second-largest freight brokerage in the U.S. — violated federal law and owes overtime pay to thousands of former employees who worked more than 40 hours a week.

A change in a new five-year contract between the UAW and Mack Trucks would extend the work day for 30 minutes for about $3,000 more a year.

Uber drivers will pick up return parcels and deliver them to postal, FedEx and UPS locations.

Estes Express has opened up a web portal to communicate with customers amid a cyberattack on the LTL carrier.

Equity research analysts are taking less-than-truckload earnings forecasts higher following the industry’s successful absorption of defunct Yellow’s freight.

Uber Freight Exchange is designed to unlock operational efficiencies and compress the time it takes to procure, eliminating the back-and-forth of traditional mini-bids by bringing the process onto one single tool.

With 2024 orderboards open, Class 8 truck orders hit their highest level of the year in September and suggest fleet optimism.

Battery-electric trucks and the infrastructure to charge them require joint development, a lesson fleets are learning from early adopters.

Radiant Logistics has acquired a Florida-based logistics partner that provides forwarding services to the cruise lines.

Brad Jacobs, who founded XPO and its spinoffs, didn’t provide any details on what his next venture is going to focus on.

Some companies have found success by taking a unique approach to the turnover problem. Those organizations are abandoning the age-old sleeper cab – or at least reducing their dependence on it. 

A September supply chain survey suggests the freight industry is coming out of a recession.

Estes Express confirmed Tuesday that the LTL carrier has been the target of a cyberattack.

Trade officials in the U.S. and Mexico are urging Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to end state-run cargo truck inspections in El Paso and Eagle Pass.

DHL Express rate hikes take effect Jan. 1.

Postal Service auditors have advised the agency to boost oversight of contract trucking companies.

The logistics industry continues to be a strong area of focus for government leaders hoping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow the progression of transportation-related climate change. As a result, legislators are driving emission-cutting regulations forward at breakneck speeds. 

Steve Burns cashed out more than $60 million in stock in Lordstown Motors. Now he is buying its assets out of bankruptcy for $10 million.