Trucking

UAW calls walkout after 30-day extension fails to result in agreement. No new talks until at least April 26.

Switzerland had the highest average truck driver salary at more than $70,000 a year.

At a recent hearing, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard loud and clear that the trucking industry should not serve as the guinea pig for any seismic change in how the United States funds infrastructure, including a vehicle miles traveled tax.

Continued selloff of Nikola shares strips founder Trevor Milton of his billionaire status as early employees begin to dump stock options he gave them.

Cass data published Friday highlights new records as volumes reaccelerate and rates soar.

Two truckers charged with kidnapping women were able to secure their own releases with relative ease during the investigation. Find out why this raises troubling questions about this case in the latest episode of Long-Haul Crime Log.

Also on this week’s podcast: Conflicting info about the US oil upstream that might actually be in sync.

A good truckload provider will have a strong network and the ability to leverage multiple modes.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of our team members following the tragic shooting,” FedEx said.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services updated its long-term division margin targets on its first-quarter call Thursday.

The weather-related closure of three Walmart DCs had an outsized impact on the company.

The Teamsters call it a strike, but it is more of a protest. Still, it did garner support from another union on Wednesday.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced first-quarter results well ahead of analysts’ expectations.

Metal manufacturing is responsible for nearly 8% of global emissions. En+ Group is producing aluminum with virtually no carbon footprint while SSAB and Volvo collaborate for fossil-free steel.

The Department of Energy’s SuperTruck 3 earmarks $100 million to expand electric heavy-duty truck concepts to lower emissions.

Reliance Partners’ Thom Albrecht comments on the industry’s recovery efforts and job growth figures, as well as his thoughts on increasing driver pay.

Retail sales surged in March along with freight volumes. An increase in vaccinations and stimulus payments provided a “perfect alignment” for the blowout report.

Trailer orders edged back toward trend in March, but the crush of orders in recent months leaves manufacturers addled by supply chain issues struggling.

Coyote Logistics is adding an integration with truck parking reservation platform TruckPark that allows drivers to access parking locations through the CoyoteGo digital freight platform.

Startup Milk Moovement seeks to modernize the dairy supply chain through cloud-based software.

Experts warned lawmakers of industry backlash if trucking is singled out to save the nearly bankrupt highway trust fund

A transmission pipeline will take hydrogen where Nikola needs it for fuel cell trucks it plans to build in Germany with IVECO.

The think tank report sees the funding coming from the service centers as a means to help rebuild interstate highways.

Biden has picked former New York City regulator Meera Joshi to be administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Most innovative solutions are inspired by seemingly insurmountable problems. That is exactly how Evotrux was born

Some global manufacturers could be feeling a cost crunch. Mexico may be the solution they’re looking for.

Relying on fossil fuels to move people and goods creates a massive carbon footprint that the transportation industry is only starting to address.

Trucking industry professionals said the misuse of B-1 visa drivers creates an unjust but significant savings to U.S. carriers that set up outsourced B-1 driver fleets at a lower cost.

Incentives help make Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks affordable for a food logistics supplier, whose 14-unit order benefits from a $3.9 million grant.

As construction companies adjust to COVID-19 delays and shortages, many have turned to modular construction — but will supply chain issues limit growth?

Scientists and government leaders are pushing for a more sustainable supply chain. Consumers are paying attention.

Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. announces the departure of its COO and chief network officer. The company announced that its strategic initiatives head, Darrel Harris, will take over as president.

The Teamsters called it a strike even though no employed workers were believed to be on the picket line.

A two-year collaboration between engine maker Cummins Inc. and Tula Technology makes a dramatic cut in nitrogen-oxide emissions.

Forward Air’s growth plans net 11 new final-mile terminal locations in the first quarter. While recent activist shareholder interests called into question the company’s capital allocation strategy, it appears the final-mile segment remains part of the plan.

The U.S. must help secure domestic semiconductor manufacturing, truck manufacturers tell the Biden administration.

“It all happened so fast that I didn’t even catch their names,” said trucker Nick Still.

Daniel Sperling, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, shared his thoughts on the path to reducing emissions in the road freight sector.

An understanding between European truck maker IVECO and self-driving software maker Plus includes liquified natural gas but not electric trucks.

The author of “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” talks about Amazon’s push for complete dominance and what it may mean for all of us.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: El Paso border crossing looks to rebound in 2021; logistics firm expands with Dallas shipping hub; Suddath acquires Texas-based Daryl Flood Inc.; and $2 million of meth hidden in shipment of rugs.

Hydrogen that will someday power long-haul trucks is known by colors related to the power source used to make it.

This dip is likely to be temporary.

WHAT THE TRUCK?!? welcomes HubTran’s Josh Asbury to the show. The crew dives into the acquisition with TriumphPay and discusses HubTran’s Lights-Out Processing platform.

With an above-average number of hurricanes in the forecast this year, nonprofit logistics groups are busy preparing to help.

The telematics, ELD and satellite provider is getting sold for a 50% premium. Even that is less than at least one analyst saw as its value.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is keeping pressure on regulators to require speed limiters on trucks as well as performance standards for automatic emergency braking (AEB) and other crash-avoidance technology.

Mexico is again the top trading partner of the United States for February, followed by Canada and China.

The market takes a breather this week with tenders down 7% week-over-week.

Reliance Partners’ Kelly Teg and Arvin Castellanos detail the insurance basics of intermodal freight.

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Bunn in put in charge of day-to-day operations; Hogan has a diversified portfolio of duties.

The lead trucking industry lobby has come together with insurance-focused groups to fight two vexing problems of fraud.

Bestpass provides drivers the ability to use a single transponder coast to coast, provider to provider, but it’s also pushing to provide value beyond toll.

An off-duty trucker charged with smuggling 13 bricks of cocaine from the U.S. to Canada via car was acquitted after maintaining that the drugs were planted while he was aiding a fellow driver with a repair at a rest stop.

PACCAR siblings Kenworth and Peterbilt regularly yield the spotlight to each other when it comes to product reveals.

C.H. Robinson on Thursday debuted its Emissions IQ self-serve tool for tracking carbon emissions from transportation.

SPAC-backed stocks are getting hammered, but Hyliion soldiers on in preparing the negative net-zero carbon Hypertruck ERX.

The acquisition provides MercuryGate with ready-made last-mile logistics exposure, Blough says.

Zach Strickland, the Sultan of SONAR, talks about what the pandemic did to supply chains.

Rob Hatchett, president of SeatMyTrucks, discusses why fleets are struggling to find truck drivers because of COVID-19 pandemic, with Marilyn Surber, transportation adviser for Tenstreet.

FreightTech companies showcased their cutting-edge technology solutions for common fleet inefficiencies during the Enterprise Fleet Summit.

Cross-border platform Nuvocargo raised $12 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors.

A recent ruling in the Tenth Circuit found that an employee need not be adversely affected to be able to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act, meaning employers should continue to engage in good faith in the ADA-interactive process.

Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association in 2007, and it has come a long way since. It now has a separate charity foundation, which provides students seeking transportation-related careers with scholarships.

NTSB again highlights the need for automated safety devices in trucks in its latest top 10 list.

A. Bailey Wood reveals his vision and goals as the new head of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association.

FreightWaves’ JT Engstrom and Ryder’s Steve Martin discuss facets of dedicated truckload operations, including service metrics, pricing levels and driver retention.

Engage Construction Management and Consulting Inc. has been selected for the Canadian piece of a $1 billion infrastructure project connecting Mexico’s Pacific Coast to Winnipeg, Canada.

Global logistics provider Pilot Freight Services has acquired DSI Logistics, a last-mile heavy goods specialty provider.

Hubtek’s digital worker, TABi, enters a company’s TMS as a user, scans documents, forms and emails for data, and transfers the data to the TMS.

Brent Bergevin, vice president of transportation at Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, chats with FreightWaves’ Zach Strickland about how Love’s handled market challenges over the last 12 months, from the COVID-19 pandemic to February’s severe winter weather.

Nashville is the Chicago-based freight brokerage’s first expansion office.

The latest increase raises the question: Are we nearing the end of the cycle of increases or just kicking off yet another one?

Electric-assisted cargo bikes are being implemented as cities face challenges with congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and parking.

Hubert Ivan Ugarte pleaded guilty to bribing a FedEx Ground manager in a pay-to-play scheme, and to defrauding the PPP loan program.

Members of the trucking industry in the U.S. and Mexico allege that Mexican truck drivers are doing illegal runs inside the United States in violation of cabotage rules. FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast, Long-Haul Crime Log, investigates.

The company restores guarantees on domestic next-day air deliveries and U.S. air imports and exports.(Photo: Flickr/Tomás Del Coro CC BY-SA 2.0)

Isuzu trucks will install technology from autonomous vehicle startup Gatik on its medium-duty N-Series truck models.

Kenworth spent five years preparing a new range of medium-duty trucks, its first all-new lineup in three decades.

Having proved it could achieve 100% offsetting of CO2 emissions from Expedited Max in 2020, DHL eCommerce Solutions is officially declaring its service with the highest carbon footprint as carbon-neutral moving forward.

Samsara’s new Fleet Benchmarks Report compares a fleet’s performance to that of similar fleets across the trucking industry, providing insight into how they are trending relative to peers.

Shipwell is adding pricing intelligence tools to its enterprise platform. Shippers testing the new tools have seen procurement costs drop as much as 10%, Shipwell said.

The earlier 20-week string of increases still has the price up about 50 cents more than when 2021 started.

Truck driving is the biggest single occupation that stands to benefit from the president’s infrastructure plan, according to a new report.

The company restores money-back guarantee on next-day air products and much of its international express portfolio.

Schneider, a premier provider of trucking, intermodal and logistics services, has expanded its digital marketplace – Schneider FreightPower® – to shippers of all sizes.

It’s the third vote in just a few months to push the union out. But contracts at all 3 locations had not ever been finalized.

Research firm Cowen has set a price target of $28.50 per share for EV startup Arrival – more than $10 higher than Monday’s trading price. Cowen cited its unique approach to manufacturing as one reason for its optimism.

Daimler Trucks North America recalling 2021 Freightliner Cascadia and Western Star 4700 for clutch problem that could worsen.

March Class 8 truck orders fell slightly from February, but still added to an industry backlog that manufacturers are struggling to reduce.

Nikola founder and former Executive Chairman Trevor Milton pockets $49 million in sale of electric truck maker’s shares.

CVSA inspectors will focus on lighting and hours of service during the annual 72-hour safety blitz throughout North America on May 4-6.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odyssey Logistics opens facility in Laredo; CBP beefs up border security; Rockport Terminals acquired by Jones Capital; and train collides with tractor-trailer in Houston.

The decision in a suit brought against drayage company East Coast Transport affirms a finding in the earlier Cal Cartage case

Western Star is recalling 6,830 trucks for possible stalling due to a faulty wiring harness. Some are being called back for a second time.

Tender rejections slip but still elevated.

The methamphetamine was shipped by truck in two loads through Texas to South Florida, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.

Kenworth and Peterbilt avoid downtime from semiconductor shortage by parking unfinished trucks and getting back to them later.

FMCSA hours-of-service exemption weighs heavily in a court decision rejecting wage claims against XPO Logistics.