Trucking

The Postal Service rejected lawmakers’ calls to produce a new analysis of its future electric delivery vehicle fleet.

Ran Transportation enters busy TMS space in hopes of differentiating from the competition.

Seeking to avoid the embarrassment of canceling fleet orders last year, truck manufacturers are keeping a tight lid on bookings.

Data in the Logistics Managers’ Index reported a significant weakening in the market in the second half of March.

Ascent has acquired a majority stake in Central Minnesota Logistics, a brokerage focused on transportation solutions for overdimensional and heavy-cargo freight.

The Texas State Highway 130 toll road between Austin and San Antonio will use satellite radar aiming to keep the route safe and comfortable for motorists.

Nikola has put wheels in motion to sell up to $1.2 billion in new stock to keep scaling its electric truck and hydrogen businesses.

Carbon offsets are a growing alternative or additional step toward reducing emissions in sectors like transportation.

The Biden administration praised strides made to boost trucking jobs — but could a freight recession undercut progress?

There is a new guilty plea in the Louisiana staged accident scheme, as well as a jail sentence for another participant.

“The conversation around empty miles is not a new conversation,” said Jennifer Wong, head of sustainability at Convoy. But now it’s about more than just saving money.

As robots take over for human drivers, will they raise or lower the risk of tire blowouts that claim dozens of lives in truck crashes every year?

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Quincus eyes growing Latin American e-commerce markets; Watlow opens a manufacturing plant in Querétaro; Dimerco launches an Asia to Mexico freight service; and $4 million worth of methamphetamine is seized at the Laredo port of entry.

FreightWaves adviser Matt Waller answers questions about shifting priorities that may include sustainability.

Dirty trucks will pay $10 per TEU in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to raise money for zero-emission trucks and infrastructure.

Venerable index gets shellacked as freight issues fall hard.

Bob Bortner of IMI dives into the most effective fuel-saving strategies when combating exorbitant fuel prices.

Amazon Labor Union pulls off a stunning victory in New York; a ratification vote in Alabama remains in limbo.

FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller provides commentary/analysis on the trucking industry’s “driver shortage.”

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

Gatik CEO Gautam Narang will detail middle-mile autonomy’s role in the future of the supply chain at FreightWaves’ upcoming The Future of Supply Chain conference.

The decline in truck transportation jobs is the first in almost two years, but it comes after upward revisions in the two prior months.

FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller provides further analysis regarding the decline in the freight market.

FedEx is cutting the wages of the salesforce supporting the small to midsize customer segment.

Reliance Partners’ Robert Kaferle explains that you’ve got to do some digging to identify your safety risks.

DDC Sync allows drivers to use a mobile app with intuitive smart capture to instantly take high-quality images of bills of lading (BOLs) that are then processed with the driver’s terminal staff or operation staff of DDC.

Companies that have historically treated drayage and other inland transportation services as an afterthought will need to shift this mindset in order to survive in the current maritime environment.

While hydrogen fuel cells offer a promising alternative to ozone-threatening diesel engines, creating an electric-friendly infrastructure will require dedication from government regulators, equipment manufacturers and industry players alike.

TruckPager is promising a freight booking future without phone calls. Instead, brokers and shippers can reach the nearest empty trucks with a single notification.

Businesses and independent contractors opposed David Weil’s return to the Wage and Hour Division.

The average percentage of ocean carrier invoices with missing or wrong information jumped from a historical average of 18% to over 45% in 2021.

Werner Enterprises asserts that a five-year waiver affecting its driver trainees will fill cab seats and improve safety.

Covering a tractor and trailer in solar panels could potentially generate more than 18,000 watt hours of energy per day in California conditions.

Some parcels will be hit with a $31.50 levy on top of the base shipping rate.

Getting paid for getting drivers on board is the economic value proposition of the Ambassador program.

Two truckers working for the same Canadian company were arrested four months apart after separate seizures of cocaine and meth in Michigan.

With more than $200 million in incentive funding being released Wednesday in California, fleets are placing larger orders for electric trucks.

An Indiana-based trucking company recently filed bankruptcy, more than a month after receiving an unsatisfactory rating from FMCSA.

Old Dominion said Tuesday it has already added capacity at seven locations in its network. The recent expansions trend ahead of its 2022 guidance, which called for growth at eight to 10 terminals.

Tracks emissions technology will help project44 customers measure and mitigate scope 3 supply chain emissions, which are currently difficult to track.

Becker’s CEO sees acquisition opportunities in other 3PLs with CEOs getting ready to retire.

Major acquisitions of TRW Inc. and Wabco Holdings have made ZF the world’s largest commercial vehicle supplier.

Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge is undergoing a major expansion project that will add more lanes and reduce wait times for commercial trucks.

Biden’s 2023 budget request increases funding to deal with freight bottlenecks and issue new regulations.

FedEx founder will leave the CEO role June 1, succeeded by Raj Subramaniam, the company’s president.

The former Mexican chief negotiator for the USMCA highlights the nation’s economic and trade advantages.

A single fire prompts Navistar to discover a wiring issue with battery cables and leads to a recall of 2,804 trucks.

AskWaves reviews the legal history of the independent contractor law and the lawsuits that challenged its implementation.

Those charged in the latest guilty pleas connected to the Louisiana staged truck accident scheme are all accused of being operatives, and with one exception, the attorneys who were allegedly involved have not been indicted.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico’s heavy-duty truck production, exports surge in February; Mattel will invest $47 million in a Mexican factory; Cummins moves a production line to San Luis Potosí; and traffickers create a logistics company to distribute meth.

Truckers attending the Mid-America Trucking Show had a lot to say about some of the top challenges they face while out on the road, including parking.

A spot survey of companies seeking drivers at the big trucking conference reflects a wide divergence of pay packages.

RoadSync has diversified, but lumpers and maintenance costs while on the road remain a key market for the company.

Optimal Dynamics aims to alleviate the uncertainty about freight movement today and in the future.

Also on the podcast: diesel is kicking crude’s butt.

Tenstreet’s goal is to make processes easier for drivers and carriers alike. In 2022, that means making a driver’s smartphone a one-stop shop for as many tasks as possible.

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

Key speakers announced for The Future of Supply Chain.

XPO Logistics announced it has sold its intermodal business to STG Logistics for $710 million in cash. This was a crucial first step on the path to becoming a stand-alone less-than-truckload company.

A noted consultant sees FedEx founder Fred Smith dropping the CEO role to become executive chairman; second-in-command Raj Subramaniam would take Smith’s place.

Out of the shadow of Mercedes-Benz cars, independent Daimler Truck showed financial resilience despite supply chain headwinds.

Carriers can become significantly more sustainable by simply focusing on solutions that make their fleets more efficient, reducing miles driven to move each load and cutting down on emissions.

Dispatching is marked by mostly smaller companies, and Trucker Path already comes in at a larger-than-normal size.

As farmers prepare for harvest, shippers should ready themselves for the seasonal rate increases and capacity shortages that accompany fresh fruits and veggies each year.

Craig Fuller analyzes the state of the U.S. truckload market.

Maersk will deploy 300 Class 8 electric trucks from Einride in its U.S. warehouse and distribution network.

In its initial order for the next-generation delivery vehicle, the Postal Service surprised by ordering a mix of powertrains that includes 20% electric vehicles among the 50,000-vehicle order.

Financial technology platform Outgo emerges from stealth with a vertical banking solution that automates bookkeeping functions for carriers.

CEO Barkoff isn’t revealing much about the next initiatives at the 4-year-old Relay Payments, which has attracted significant investment.

Navistar designed its new $250 million plant to Industry 4.0 standards, including robots that talk to each other and paperless operations.

If imported adult beverages are your thing, there’s a good chance DHL or J.F. Hillebrand took care of the shipping.

After a panel discussion extolling better relations between shippers and carriers, a question sets off a discussion on current selection processes.

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. leverages parent Daimler Truck North America’s dealership and service network to battle competitors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they found a loaded gun and meth in an American trucker’s cab during an inspection at the Ambassador Bridge U.S.-Canada border crossing.

FMCSA’s safety boss grapples with a huge wave of truck entrants since the pandemic.

AskWaves looks at dynamic pricing and how it fits into an increasingly automated LTL complex.

The cause of a tractor-trailer driving off a highway and bursting into flames in Rayne, Louisiana, remains unclear.

With Daimler Truck already on board, Platform Science adds Navistar as the second manufacturer to factory install its open-source telematics.

Sites in Kansas, New Hampshire, Vermont and Utah now are using the Drivewyze system to reduce manual processes in truck inspections.

Reports link Prologis as a suitor of Blackstone’s last-mile network in Europe.

The founder of the fundraising arm of the People’s Convoy says trucking organizers may “wrap up the federal convoy this week” amid dwindling donations to protest government mandates regarding COVID-19 and other political issues.

A separate bill keeps all of the state’s 47 rest areas open to allow for truck driver stops.

Gatik’s Gautam Narang will be an industry keynoter at The Future of Supply Chain event.

Building geographic scale and expanding a book of business is not the main driver, Muessig says. Instead, it’s access to scarce assets.

At the press conference announcing the deal, the first user of the Locomation technology, Wilson Logistics, gave an update on what it is doing in the autonomous space.

The U.S. DOT found that the truck parking shortage exists in every state and region, but it did not include dedicated funding for truck parking in the recent infrastructure bill.

“The Biden DOL will have little choice but to apply the Trump rule or face opposition,” says attorney Greg Feary.

Higher diesel prices also mean higher costs for empty miles.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: A Texas highway expansion is a “boon” for the trade economy; a Texas port announces plans for a regional logistics hub; GrubMarket acquires an Arizona produce supplier; and a Japanese auto supplier opens a plant in Ramos Arizpe.

This week: Trucking Cares donates to Ukraine relief funds, Bendix supports hospice Pappus House and the UPS Foundation celebrates Women’s History Month.

ndicted Nikola Corp. founder dropped his attempt to move his criminal trial out of New York and sold more stock as trial date was reset to July.

Traton Group is still focused on battery power for trucks but tossed a bone to hydrogen in raising its electrification spending to about $3 billion by 2026.

Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels and Robert Kaferle discuss ways to avoid unnecessary stresses with proper planning.

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

Trucking companies and logistics firms are among hundreds of creditors collectively owed millions of dollars after a California-based organic products manufacturer recently filed Chapter 7.

EPS comes in below estimates as FedEx Ground’s operating income declines.

TravelCenters of America is leaving the Canadian market after agreeing to sell the site of its truck stop in southwestern Ontario.

Drivers will face fines of up to $250 in Colorado if they use Interstate 70’s mountain express lanes at the wrong times.

The quarterly report of the brokerage industry’s leading trade group shows that 3PLs did only slightly better in the rip-roaring freight market of the fourth quarter.

Consumers are becoming more aware of both the urgency of climate change and the complexities of the supply chain. Companies should be prepared for consumers to start calculating supply chain sustainability into their purchasing decisions.