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The end of 2021 brings the confirmation of a Surface Transportation Board member and approvals of short line requests.

Nikola avoids admitting wrongdoing, but the SEC lays out a litany of misdeeds that led to the $125 million settlement.

UPS Airlines boosts its fleet with a big order for Boeing cargo jets.

“We don’t partner with one asset, we partner with all box truck assets in a region and we aggregate the totality of orders to be sure that there is one full truck delivering to one ZIP code,” said Onward Delivery CEO Grafton Elliott.

B2B e-commerce is exploding, but payments processes are not keeping up, turning what should be a seamless experience into a frustrating process for many.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that paid suspensions are a reasonable course of action pending employment investigations.

From ocean shipping reform to vaccine mandates, the past year has been a backdrop for new and proposed government oversight and requirements affecting carriers and shippers.

The first day of winter will be a wet and stormy one for most truckers in Florida (video forecast included).

RLS Logistics continues to roll up the cold storage market, adding one family operator at a time.

Even as retail prices drift lower, commodity diesel prices have posted two days of sharp declines.

Plus and Iveco lay out a timeline for driver-supervised autonomous trucks followed by fully driverless trucks.

J.B. Hunt Transport announced that eligible drivers and maintenance techs received nearly $10 million in appreciation bonuses on Friday.

he parking brake may release unintentionally on about 22,000 refuse trucks, creating a potential rollaway. Mack has reported five crashes to NHTSA.

The latest example of an ocean carrier expanding into the logistics space involves MSC trying to buy a piece of Bolloré Logistics.

The agency that regulates trucking has not had a Senate-confirmed leader in more than two years.

The addition of three cranes along with dredging and the construction of a freight corridor has Boston big ship ready.

The railroad veteran removed himself from consideration over the weekend.

The Bay Area-based autonomous vehicle maker received an investment from TDK Ventures, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational electronics company TDK Corp.

A former Central Freight Lines employee claims the Waco,Texas-based less-than-truckload carrier violated federal law by failing to give 60 days’ notice of its planned shutdown to nearly 2,100 employees and truck drivers, who found themselves without jobs two weeks before Christmas

Among Monday’s notes: Pittsburgh outbound tender volumes up 10%, rejection rates climb in Memphis, and more.

Don’t be afraid of the drone swarm. It’s just Korean Air’s approach to using several drones at once to visually inspect its aircraft.

Locomation earned high marks on a third-party environmental impact report conducted by Boundless Impact Research and Analytics last month.

After a couple of oddball years, shippers and carriers alike are anxious to see how the market rebalances — or doesn’t — after the new year.

The customer journey should not end with a return, said parcelLab CEO Tobias Buxhoidt. Instead, the return should represent another opportunity to build a loyal customer.

Renewable diesel continues to grow in popularity due to its emission-reduction potential and health benefits for workers and surrounding communities.

Truckers will hit high winds and several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Christmas week (video forecast included).

FreightWaves takes a look back at some of the most destructive weather events of 2021 and their impacts on freight.

Experts across the supply chain weigh in on the most impactful sustainability trends in 2021.

AskWaves looks at some of the catalysts that have heated up M&A in the transportation space.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: manufacturing sector in Austin, Texas, is booming; GDP from transport in Mexico averaged fell sharply last year; reverse logistics firm opening Fort Worth facility; and CBP finds massive load of drugs in auto parts load.

OSHA extends compliance deadlines for its vaccination mandate to Jan. 10 and Feb. 9 as ATA takes the fight to the Supreme Court.

The logistics startup has wrapped up its series B funding round.

This week: CFI employees raise holiday funds for local charities; XPO joins other industry professionals for Wreaths Across America Day; and Gopuff gives toward Kentucky tornado relief.

Auxo Investment Partners explains rationale for why it chose to invest in rail service providers.

More parcel processing capacity and earlier holiday shopping schedules are key factors in the agency’s improvement, ShipMatrix says.

A truck driver didn’t survive a rollover after severe winds struck his 18-wheeler in Iowa.

Class 8 truck orders placed this year for 2022 models are being retimed to next year as 2023 models because parts shortages are preventing production.

Carriers and shippers are turning to East Coast ports as Los Angeles/Long Beach remains mired in congestion.

The White House is asking carriers to play nice with exporters, but next year Congress may give it a hammer to use if shipping practices don’t change.

FedEx’s Express and LTL units delivered solid performances, while the bottom may have been hit at its Ground unit.

The woman pleaded guilty but was not a key organizer of the June 2017 accident.

Volumes turn downward heading into the Christmas week while rejection rates have rebound back above 20%. Carriers still maintain a firm grip on pricing power in the market.

It’s the final and most festive WTT of the year with project44’s Jett McCandless; FreightWaves Craig Fuller, and cheer from around the industry

People who signed the petition are protesting Rogel Aguilera-Mederos lengthy prison sentence, along with his company’s role in the accident.

The new partnership will offer on-demand, same-day delivery of home goods, electronics, beauty and personal care products.

San Antonio-based Rush Enterprises, already far and away the largest U.S. network of commercial truck dealerships, is getting even bigger.

Among Friday’s notes: High TRAC rates for Dallas to Detroit, Headhaul Index in Harrisburg up 7%, and more.

The instant delivery company could be valued as high as $40 billion after securing its latest series X funding raise.

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter focusing on autonomous, connected and electric innovations in the trucking ecosystem for fleets.

Full customs formalities will be required on goods moving into the U.K. from the EU after the new year. If you’re not prepared, expect congestion, delays and learning curves.

Uber Eats will begin delivering from select restaurants in Santa Monica using autonomous vehicles provided by Motional.

The new infrastructure bill is now law. As signed by President Biden on Nov. 15, it will ultimately spend $1.2 trillion. What will that mean in practice?

Relying on a single data source to predict pricing is risky in the best of times. Right now, brokers and shippers are already facing high — and highly variable — rates. A lack of true insight in the mix only makes the situation more chaotic.

A compilation of the past week in social media images includes a blizzard out West, a Plains dust storm and a late-season wildfire.

Also on the podcast: The incredible shrinking US refining sector.

FedEx Express has taken delivery of the first electric vans as part of a 500-unit order from BrightDrop. The vehicles are in operation in California.

“Demand for RNG will continue its rapid growth trajectory. We are in the early days of seeing corporate goals to reduce carbon turned into actual actions,” Greg Roche, vice president of sustainability at Clean Energy, told FreightWaves.

Truckers will hit heavy snow and whiteout conditions this weekend in the Washington Cascades (video forecast included).

The Health Industry Distributors Association said that between 8,000 to 12,000 containers filled with millions of critical medical supplies are delayed.

Port Hueneme is an example of a niche port that is attracting more container shipments because of bottlenecks at big seaports.

DOT officials aim to solve tightening constraints on truck parking by arming local officials with new information.

Drivers and fleets can get loans to pay sky-high prices for used trucks because spot rates let them earn more than enough to repay.

While the Port of Long Beach is still dealing with a lineup of container ships waiting to berth, it is looking ahead to providing more cargo visibility.

Volume and yield gains powered the Express and LTL units, while staffing shortages and operating inefficiencies continued to hurt the Ground unit.

In its third pay hike of 2021, Forward Air rolls out its biggest pay package for independent contractors ever.

Among Thursday’s notes: St. Louis displaying strong movement; Seattle market becoming attractive, and more.

New York City has released several blueprints on its freight future during the de Blasio administration.

Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels reacts to Central Freight’s closure and shares his thoughts on the drivers’ next steps on FreightWaves’ WHAT THE TRUCK?!?.

CCO Sean Burke shares results from Echo’s recent survey on shipper sentiment for the RFP season.

Old Dominion Freight Line was the latest less-than-truckload carrier to implement a general rate increase ahead of schedule. The 4.9% adjustment is in line with the rate hike it announced earlier in the year.

On this episode of FreightWaves Insiders, Dooner catches up with Flexe vp of product and engineering Anthony Girolamo.

The Biden administration is taking a series of actions aimed at bolstering the truck driver workforce that includes assessing compensation.

“The trucking insurance industry hasn’t innovated anything for the last few decades, so we thought with our insights and the right person we could change that,” said CEO Mats Holmback.

Cylus raised $30 million in a recent funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to over $57 million.

Launched in April 2020, Uber Connect is now offering same-day local delivery to 6,000 cities across the country.

Alan Adler has spent his life inventing products, but it his AeroPress coffee brewer that is his most famous. It is also a direct-to-consumer product success story.

An initiative to transport a type of heavy Canadian crude oil to the Gulf Coast via Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern has begun operations.

Truckers will face high winds Thursday in much of the Great Lakes region, with blowing snow in some areas (video forecast included).

Technology platform Deliveright is expanding its services to include heavy-goods delivery in Canada.

German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.

It has been a wild ride for GlobalTranz, with ownership shifting multiple times in just a few years.

Import demand remains exceptionally strong but volumes through America’s largest port are falling.

Ryder and Blume Global demo their Rydershare and ConnectGo Live freight technologies during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.

Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.

Walmart announced two new fulfillment centers to help it meet growing e-commerce demand.

Shipware will deepen SIB’s shipping analysis portfolio, while Shipware clients can get spending needs addressed beyond parcel delivery, Shipware’s co-CEO said.

Federal regulators have once again denied a request to exempt small truck brokers from bond requirements.

“This is not optional. This is going to be a core part of how we think about our investments going forward,” Jon Bradford, a partner at Dynamo Ventures, said.

WTT live from Domestic Supply Chain Summit talking all things disruption and solutions for ’22.

The Internet of Things fleet management and software company sold 35 million shares and raised $805 million in its IPO Wednesday.

Project44’s Mike Edwards and Hannah Moore demonstrate how two of its pharmaceutical customers used its real-time visibility platform to improve a strategic partnership and supply chain operations at FreightWaves Domestic Supply Chain Summit on Wednesday.

Volume levels are following a similar trend to 2019, just 40% higher. Tender rejection rates are trending sideways, likely to move higher over the next week.

SoCal port crunch “has really become as bad as it’s ever been,” reports industry veteran Jon Monroe.

The COVID-19 response, labor shortages and strained capacity will continue into the New Year, but there is hope. Jim Monkmeyer, President of Transportation & LLP, DHL Supply Chain, shares some advice on how to retain talent, where to invest and how to stay positive during this unprecedented time.

“I think the biggest challenge that we face is all stakeholders working in their own silos,” said Trimble Maps’ Rishi Mehra at FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.

The three companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue the demonstration project to test the feasibility of hydrogen-powered locomotives.

Cummins has recalled X12 diesel engines used in off-highway and specialty vehicles because of potential cracking of fuel tubes that could lead to a fire.

Airbus appears to have placed a winning bet by introducing a new, big cargo jet — the A350.

The e-commerce shipping platform adds former Postmates and Pinterest executive Andreas Lieber to its leadership ranks.

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