Trucking

3PL Neovia has a higher debt rating from S&P but it still has a significant debt load.

Uber Freight and Volvo Autonomous Solutions are stressing patience over hype in working to digitally schedule loads for the truckmaker’s one-stop shop for all things autonomy.

Reliance Partners’ Mark Barlar provides a crash course on the DataQs process.

An Indiana trucking company owner claims his office manager of over 20 years — along with her husband — stole more than $600,000 from his affiliated companies over a five-year period.

Amazon has shifted middle-mile parcel deliveries to UPS and last-mile deliveries to the U.S. Postal Service, Jindel says.

Major auto hauler United Road saw its already-low debt rating affirmed, but the outlook was cut to negative as it continues to generate negative free cash flow.

Inflation has famously slammed the price of food and gasoline this year, but televisions and smartphones are historically cheap. What gives?

Safety training was once largely considered a one-size-fits-all endeavor, often consisting of in-person classes. That is no longer the case.

Meeting consumer demands is a team effort that involves shippers, carriers, retailers and technology providers.

Hydrogen provider Plug Power will buy 75 Nikola fuel cell trucks while processing hydrogen Nikola will purchase.

Texas has set up state-run checkpoints to stop and inspect random commercial vehicles coming from Mexico.

Less-than-truckload carriers are hopeful a recent round of general rate increases stick on the downside of the cycle.

A tax code throat punch promises to make gig work and online selling as fun as a trip to the morgue and as profitable as the average Mega Millions ticket.

U.S. lawmakers are proposing a requirement that restrooms at commercial buildings and ports be available to truck drivers.

Logistics M&A experts at a Benesch law firm conference don’t see any significant downturn in activity even as the freight market slows.

Tony Tzeng tells FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit that Transfix’s TrueRate+ program is designed to guarantee tenders with an optimal blend of price and service.

MIT researcher David Correll says more shared information in the shipping ecosystem could ease chronic issues.

Ryder’s Rob Pluta and Geotab’s Stephanie Voelker discuss how carriers and shippers can overcome technology fragmentation to create more efficient supply chains.

While the drive to secure new solutions is strong, adopting technology and digitizing processes in an industry that operates 24/7 may be challenging. We sat down with DDC FPO to learn how carriers should address these issues.

New standards aimed at dramatically reducing pollution from trucks come at the wrong time for the economy, according to carriers and drivers.

The growing severity of the driver shortage, combined with a shrinking number of predictable and set routes and increasing customer demands, is putting the spotlight once again on autonomous trucks.

Trimble is acquiring German transportation management system provider Transporeon for $1.9 billion.

Outrider continues transforming yard operations to autonomy, adding a robotic arm to connect and disconnect brake lines.

Cass data released Tuesday showed shipments have moderated and rates are poised to start unwinding two years of increases in January.

Yellow Corp. will modify and refile proposed network changes after meeting with local unions.

7L Freight is making truck procurement more convenient for logistics companies by combining dynamic rate management with electronic booking.

As a seed-stage startup, Ali Javidan’s Range Energy doesn’t have much to show yet for his idea of electrifying trailers.

Coupa Software is being acquired by Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at $8 billion.

The constitutionality of California’s Prop 22, which barred AB5 from being implemented against gig drivers, gets another court hearing Tuesday.

Fleet solutions provider Motive has laid off 6% of its workforce, citing slow demand and higher operating costs.

Consumers can take drop-offs to any of 2,000 FedEx Office locations

Stellantis has announced it will be closing a Jeep Cherokee assembly plant in Illinois in February, laying off 1,350 workers.

ArcBest announced CFO David Cobb will retire in October 2023.

Kevin Shaw, a Memphis, Tennessee-based truck company owner, and financial adviser Lisa Evans were indicted on charges of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

As 2022 comes to an end, it is time for trucking carriers to evaluate their driver drug and alcohol testing programs and make necessary improvements for 2023.

This week in Borderlands: USMCA panel rules in favor of Mexico, Canada over US; Lineage Logistics unveils plans for Texas cold storage facility; Mexico extends deadline again for Carta Porte tax document; and Volkswagen halts production of Jetta and Taos models.

This week: Husband-and-wife team delivers the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, Wabash continues to support the local Feeding America food bank and Love’s distributes holiday meals to military families.

Nuclear verdicts against the trucking industry are becoming more frequent, with freight brokers now being sued after accidents.

A week after authorities say FedEx contractor Tanner Lynn Horner confessed to killing 7-year-old Athena Strand and dumping her body near her home in Paradise, Texas, investigators have released new information about Strand’s death.

Yellow is seeing large tonnage declines continue as the fourth quarter advances.

Reliance Partners will dive into B-1 driver-specific violations and DataQ challenges.

Parties in the still ongoing litigation surrounding AB5 and trucking have a new calendar that forecloses any new injunction until at least May.

UFI abruptly shuttered in November. Companies have been unable to retrieve their assets from the closed-up facilities.

Big numbers tied to electric infrastructure released this week reinforce the chicken-and-egg cliche about electric trucks.

Experts say Mexico has increasingly become a go-to production option as shippers seek to reduce supply chain risks with China.

The on-time delivery rates for the November shopping holidays were better than in 2021, Ship Matrix said.

Asset-light less-than-truckload provider Forward Air sees tonnage fall off sharply in November.

The White House announced $36 billion in bailout money for the Central States Pension Fund that will benefit thousands of less-than-truckload drivers for Yellow and ABF Freight.

Port X Logistics has made a name for itself in drayage, expediting containerized freight throughout the U.S. and Canada. Now the company has brought its expertise into the airfreight arena.

COO Laura Ann Howell plans rapid growth and expects “HQ West” to be Reliance Partners’ second-largest branch.

RXO, spun off Nov. 1, released its third-quarter earnings to the SEC for its first stand-alone numbers.

Reverse logistics is a tough, unfamiliar skill set for 3PLs. But the potential payoff is huge.

ContainerPort Group’s parent World Group announced the acquisition of distribution and trucking company Pacific Cascade.

Shippers and carriers interact with the market differently, but one thing has become clear over the past few years: Contracts and dedicated lanes allow both parties to gain stability in an unpredictable landscape.

Federal regulators are considering changes to a 30-year rule that would affect the type of relief that drivers and carriers receive during highway emergencies.

Einride has raised $500 million through a combination of equity and debt financing, giving it more funding to accelerate deployment of its autonomous and electric vehicles.

Water levels on the Mississippi River have been rising near Memphis, Tennessee, and that’s good news for barge movements.

The shift from an alliance with the Postal Service to an in-house operation hasn’t gone as well as hoped for FedEx.

The American Transportation Research Institute finds that power needs for all-electric cars and trucks would be enormous.

The industry’s first autonomous trucking marriage between TuSimple and Navistar is the first to end in divorce.

A Teamsters local chapter in San Jose, California, that represents drivers at a Home Depot subsidiary has voted to decertify being represented by the union.

The November Logistics Managers’ Index showed transportation capacity was up again with pricing contracting at the fastest rate on record.

While safety is top of mind for fleet operators, addressing negative driver behaviors remains unpopular.

Solid Class 8 orders in November still marked the second straight month of decline as backlogs grow and supply and labor issues persist.

BrightDrop said large-scale production of its vans will begin at its Ontario, Canada, assembly plant, and DHL Express is adding the EVs to its fleet.

Marko Transport is being fined $44,000 by the state of Oregon for failing to help clean up about 100 gallons of diesel fuel spilled on a highway last year.

Less-than-truckload tonnage declined at an accelerated pace through November.

Netradyne’s Barrett Young explains why most fleet safety initiatives are counterproductive.

The carriers have had their day, and the pendulum appears to be swinging back in the shippers’ direction.

This week in Borderlands: Mexico proposes to modify its truck driver hours-of-service rule; two logistics providers expand operations into New Mexico; an auto parts supplier expands in Mexico, creating 600 jobs; and $8.3 million worth of meth was seized from a truck at the Laredo port of entry.

A FedEx Ground driver has been arrested and is facing capital murder and aggravated kidnapping charges after the body of 7-year-old Athena Strand was found Friday evening less than 10 miles from her home in Paradise, Texas.

This week: J.B. Hunt donates money and supplies to over 55 classrooms across the U.S. Drivers for Mack Trucks take to social media with animal selfies for a good cause and Love’s donates to a child advocacy group that helps foster care children.

XPO announced it will retain its European business as capital markets abroad have weakened.

Navistar is recalling more than 31,000 vehicles across 12 product lines because fasteners may break due to inadequate heat treating.

On a practical level, being dedicated to drivers includes making sure they bring home reliable, predictable paychecks. C5 Expedite has partnered with OTR Solutions to pay drivers on a weekly basis.

After months of quiet, the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Louisiana extracted two more guilty pleas in the Louisiana staged accident scam.

It wasn’t a large gain, but truck transportation jobs in November continued an almost unbroke upward trend of gains since the worst of the pandemic.

The approach of Cummins Inc. to hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines is very different from how and when it talks about most of its products.

It will be years before the Tesla Semi — or any electric vehicle — becomes a trucking industry standard.

Elon Musk on Thursday unveiled and delivered the first all-electric Class 8 Tesla Semi trucks to PepsiCo.

Senate lawmakers have introduced a companion bill to a House measure that sets aside grant money to expand truck parking at new and existing facilities.

GPA is working hard to meet growing demand. To achieve this goal, it has focused on infrastructure improvement and expansion.

Locomation’s technology will have a game-changing impact on the quality of life for drivers by providing them with fixed schedules, static routes and dependable operations.

The deceleration in less-than-truckload tonnage during the fourth quarter is worse than analysts expected.

Reliance Partners’ Graham Gonzales urges 3PLs to build more trust with shipper clients and warns against putting insurance on the chopping block.

While there is interest in EVs in the last-mile space, many companies are reluctant to adopt them at this point.

The BMO transportation group’s quarterly results represent a key indicator of trucking industry economic health, but there has been no significant downturn yet.

Peterbilt parent Paccar Inc. agreed to pay $150,000 to a worker fired after he complained about COVID safety in a Texas plant.

The owner of a pair of trucking companies got 10 years in federal prison for lots of things, including a welding explosion that killed a worker.

Drivers affected by FedEx Freight’s furloughs will receive return-to-work guarantees and a $300 weekly incentive while they are out of work.

A rail strike could lift spot truckload prices and support a market that’s been soft, sources said. But should a strike continue, expect congestion and higher costs.

Cummins Inc. closed the $197 million purchase of Siemens’ Commercial Vehicles business, a deal originally struck by Meritor.

When the 35 fuel cell trucks Hyundai is importing to California arrive in 2023, the South Korean automaker instantly assumes U.S. leadership.

3PL company Neovia has a new capital structure, but S&P Global Ratings still views it as having a large hill to climb.

PrePass Safety Alliance is a nonprofit public-private partnership devoted to the safe, secure, and efficient use of North America’s highway system.

Federal regulators say livestock drivers have not shown they can maintain safety if given an hours-of-service exemption.

UPS said it will keep its money-back pledge on domestic and international next-day air services.

Aligning with a carrier’s independent contractor fleet provides added resources that assist with the stability of their long-term success — in both good and bad market conditions.

A Texas carrier has agreed to settle a sex discrimination suit by paying $90,000 to a former recruiter who complained of harassment.

Lordstown Motors received final approvals to ship its battery-electric pickup truck to customers, overcoming doubt about its viability.