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Amazon had to close a facility in New Jersey when the COVID infection rate increased.

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Tesla’s year includes becoming the most valuable auto company in the world, announcing a new car factory and inclusion in the S&P 500.

Team McKesson is implementing Phase 2 of Operation Warp Speed on Sunday, delivering the first Moderna COVID vaccines across the nation.

Deals with Daimler Trucks, Samsung and McLeod help fleets manage myriad solutions to make life easier for drivers.

Railway supply workers support critical infrastructure, the trade group says.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Three new intermodal hubs signed for the Texas Gulf Coast; jury awards $500,000 for damage from truck accident; NTG promotes Drew Herpich to chief commercial officer; and Volkswagen links U.S.-Mexico factories through cloud services.

The Defense Logistics Agency is the military’s in-house logistics management provider. It has its ducks in a row to receive new coronavirus vaccines.

Transportation providers may spend January unclogging supply chains as warehouse capacity has become a precious commodity thanks to the continued influx of imports.

Pilots and air traffic controllers can take both new coronavirus vaccines under new guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.

project44 ranks second after Amazon among industry disruptors on FreightTech 25 list.

McKesson is the middleman between Moderna and FedEx and UPS. Distribution is already in motion to deliver the nation’s second vaccine this week.

Convoy continued to introduce new innovations in 2020, helping it rank third in FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 ranking of innovative companies in freight.

Nonprofit charity Truckers Final Mile that helps bring deceased drivers home to their families is facing a bleak future without donations.

A goal for 2021 is for SEDNA Systems to go beyond the automatic organization and routing of email by extracting the valuable business and operational information that is encoded and trapped within the email communications flowing in and out of the companies that are SEDNA’s customers.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, transportation analysts say the good times will likely continue for the sector throughout 2021. Plus, Central Freight Lines is being sued for nonpayment of invoices, and International Roadcheck compliance numbers improve in 2020.

In slightly modified statement from earlier, company says law enforcement has been contacted about cyber incident

Consumer resilience wavering.

The airfreight division of Swiss International Air Lines moved a big load of Chinese-made vaccine to Brazil on a passenger flight.

EVO Transportation, which hauls for the U.S. Postal Service, is permanently closing its terminal in Austin, Texas.

Latest data from NHTSA shows truck occupant injuries increased by 7,000 in 2019.

XPO Logistics is working behind the scenes to get Pfizer’s COVID vaccine to waiting arms.

Orders for new trailers dipped in November but the total bookings in the last three months are still the second highest in industry history.

FedEx shares get hammered despite record performance at Express and LTL units. The focus is on lagging margins at FedEx Ground.

Cybersecurity skills are among the gaps identified in GAO review of DOT’s workforce.

Amazon handles two-thirds of its deliveries in-house as of late 2020 — a rapid departure from the mostly outsourced model the company relied on just a few years ago.

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Weather-themed movies can be a great way for truckers to pass the time when they aren’t behind the wheel.

Over the past week, several economic indicators began flashing yellow signs just one week after the freight market did so. Volumes are retreating. drivers are exiting the highway for home, and rates have likely peaked.

FedEx looks to prosper in 2021 FedEx has become a pivotal player in the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, rolling out delivery of the Pfizer vaccine this past week and […]

HighCom Armor said the value of products to be exported to Mexico City over the next 10 years could be up to $50 million.

Seeking out capacity the old way—countless phone calls, spreadsheets, undocumented tribal knowledge, physical maps and word of mouth while scouring multiple carrier portals and load boards with stale or unverified data⎯ is chronically inefficient.

Digital freight brokerage Mothership Technologies is suing less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines of Waco, Texas, for nearly $508,000 in unpaid invoices, citing breach of contract.

The Eastern U.S. railroad attributed its decision to furlough employees to changing market conditions.

On today’s FreightWaves NOW, Zach Strickland discuses capacity returning to Southern California in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet then Anthony Smith and Andrew Cox talk about economic indicators giving […]

Rapid platform developer Vantiq has partnered with Infosys to launch an accelerator to speed development of supply chain digitization solutions.

Indicted just two months ago, the individuals helped bring a payout from C.R. England and its insurer of $4.7 million

Shippers are looking to speed up delivery and avoid long wait times by utilizing space on the East Coast. As a result, import volumes at eastern ports are on the rise.

Digital marketplaces are becoming more popular in the air cargo world. Investors like what they see at cargo.one and poured $42 million into the company.

When most supply chain practitioners think of eBOL, they focus on the outputs. At MacGregor Partners, eBOL is viewed as a continuum.

The Girl Scouts move 200 million boxes of cookies nationwide every year. Ryder System felt It made sense they should be able to earn a merit badge for such tasty supply chain skills.

Drivers will have to chain up heading through the Cascades and northern Rockies the next several days.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, FMCSA will ease restrictions for obtaining a CDL. Plus, Schneider is boosting driver pay again and Navistar reports lower truck sales and earnings.

Sell-side research analysts have made their bets on trucking in 2021. Some believe a continuation in consumer spending and inventory restocking will benefit truckload carriers while others see less-than-truckload carriers gaining traction as the industrial economy advances.

TorQuest Partners buys VersaCold Logistics Services, a major Canadian cold storage provider with a large cross-border trucking operation.

Will your cargo ship arrive on time? Globally, the chances are now 50-50. In the Asia-U.S. container trade, it’s less than one in three.

Regulators waive safety rule to allow Netradyne dashcams to be mounted lower on the windshield.

The “IT security incident” at Tennessee-based transportation and logistics firm Forward Air has the hallmarks of a cyberattack, potentially involving ransomware, according to experts.

Shares take a hard hit in after-hours trade despite blowout fiscal second-quarter results across the board.

Storms, Warp Speed and COVID put retailers and consumers in an anxious holiday mood.

Total number of checks down from 2019 levels in a week postponed by several months

The Cass Freight Index sees sequential weakness in shipments but logs year-over-year improvement with expenditures data advancing.

Army Gen. Gus Perna, who is in charge of the COVID vaccine distribution in the U.S., is showing FedEx and UPS some love.

Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels demonstrates how to chain up when winter weather strikes.

Trailer maker Wabash National plans to sell Beall tankers unit to MAC Trailers for an undisclosed price. It plans to use the proceeds for its parts and services, cold chain, and home delivery markets.

The heavy equipment manufacturer is closing its facility in Waco and transferring operations to South Dakota and France.

Michael Vincent and Kevin Hill bring you today’s headlines, an update on vaccine movement across the US, and how the vaccine will stress the air cargo market.

Passport, a startup that helps brands with all aspects of cross-border shipping, has raised $12 million in Series A funding.

FreightWaves partnered with Redwood Logistics to assess the current state of the manufacturing industry and assess where it is headed in the new year.

Also on the podcast, a discussion of the red-hot diesel market

Navistar reported lower sales and earnings in its fiscal Q4 and for all of 2020 as it prepares to become part of Volkswagen’s TRATON Group.

The rule is designed to ease testing delays and eliminate inconvenience and expense for new drivers.

Operation Warp Speed and the delivery of the Pfizer COVID vaccine are clicking on all cylinders, but that doesn’t mean production and distribution are going perfectly.

On today’s FreightWaves NOW, Zach Strickland discuses rejection rates in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet then Michael Vincent talks about capacity tightening as volumes go down in the Shipper […]

CN has partnered with other organizations to develop a plastics resins export facility in Alabama near the Port of Mobile. The facility will open in late 2021.

Comparing first month to prices out in future a solid way of figuring out whether stocks are growing or tightening

Clutter was created to provide a smooth experience for customers with its process of door-to-door storage.

With all the uncertainty the COVID pandemic has brought to the freight markets, deploying the right technology provides the clarity shippers need to maximize supply chain efficiency.

J.B. Hunt issues intermodal service advisory as railroads BNSF Railway and Norfolk Southern implement gate restrictions in Los Angeles and Chicago.

AscendTMS has announced an integration with Convoy, allowing joint customers to seamlessly find and book Convoy loads within the AscendTMS transportation management system.

Azuga is adding artificial intelligence to its SafetyCam product, giving fleet safety managers more tools to proactively coach drivers.

FourKites and BluJay Solutions have renewed a partnership agreement that has resulted in more than 30 enterprise customers using an integrated solution.

EV company Canoo unveils its all-electric multipurpose delivery vehicle to be priced starting at approximately $33,000.

Freight rail groups and others congratulate the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, on his nomination to lead DOT; also, U.S. weekly rail volumes rise nearly 5% year-over-year

Strong nor’easter may continue to delay some shipments of COVID-19 vaccines as well as other freight.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, truck drivers are driving faster this holiday season. Plus Gatik plans to remove drivers from its vehicles in 2021 and New Year’s resolutions for fleets looking to reduce their risk.

Three Taiwan-based manufacturers are bringing 400 jobs to Santa Teresa, New Mexico, in 2021.

FedEx Express and TNT Express are integrating. They will continue to outsource airfreight to Qantas under a new deal.

Allegations of service and rate violations ocean carriers against U.S. exporters are increasing, according to FMC commissioners.

Schneider National announces a per-mile pay increase of 4 cents for most drivers beginning in late January. Earlier this year, the company announced an increase in team driver pay.

Container flows into U.S. ports have grown faster over the past three months than they have at any other time in the past decade.

Dooner and The Dude talk to astronaut Terry Virts about his time in space, his book and his global circumnavigation documentary.

Port backlogs are getting worse as U.S. imports skyrocket. Hear what Luke Falasca and Kyle Taylor think that means for 2021.

Delta joins the caravan of airlines moving COVID vaccines. Air Canada gets ready.

Plug Power’s hydrogen solutions are expanding into Walmart e-commerce applications after proving effective in the company’s grocery and retail networks.

Arizona’s largest public utility is seeking permission to sell cheap electricity to Nikola Corp. that would help the startup electric truck maker afford to build hydrogen fueling stations for its fuel cell electric trucks.

FedEx to cut prices from holiday levels on three surcharges.

Removal of dislodged containers is expected to take more than a month, and none of the 1,816 units that fell into the Pacific have been recovered.

The communication from the company to its customers said freight now moving will make it to its destination.

Could Christmas presents miss their delivery date? Anthony Smith and Zach Strickland break down what shipping bottlenecks mean for the holiday season.

Expanding what service and performance data Transport Canada collects could help demystify the freight rail operations, the agency said.

Kevin Hill welcomes a new cohost to the desk for the month of December, Blythe Brumleve. They talk emotional intelligence in sales with Emily Szink.

Canadian last-mile delivery firm secures CA$20 million Series A and expands its U.S. footprint.

Frito-Lay is responding to customers’ demands and have introduced an option for consumers to customize their variety packs.

On today’s FreightWaves NOW, Zach Strickland the effects of the Northeast snowstorm on the freight market in the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet then Anthony Smith takes a look at […]

Virtual carrier CloudTrucks raises $20.5 million Series A and launches instant pay and cash card.

The COVID pandemic drove many Americans into their homes and off the roadways, but trucking fleets have remained on the roads, and their speeds have increased.

DASH wants to land the package, not the plane.

From tight spaces to ghostly faces, some bridges make the hairs stand up on the necks of many truck drivers.

As trucking fleets reassess their safety programs for 2021 and the post-pandemic world, here are five steps they can take to reduce their risk exposure.