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Noi Mahoney Sunday, March 8, 2020

Borderlands: Cross-border trucking officials discuss freight markets; Mexico’s auto industry attracts $3.9 billion in foreign investment

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexican trucking officials discuss cross-border goals; CBP finds $590,000 of meth in shipment of stone items; Mexican automotive industry’s 2019 foreign investment: $3.9 billion; Helion targets car and heavy-duty truck dealers around Dallas.

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FreightWaves Staff Sunday, March 8, 2020

The Trucking Activist: As I See It – Trucking Business on Pause

The current talk on the Coronavirus has basically created a huge pause in the market. The fear of the unknown of this virus is only adding to the further unknowns the industry is tackling. The capacity of trucks seems to be dwindling with financial failures; carriers just quitting business; the low number of new units purchased in 2019 and on order now; plus the plummeting used truck values.

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FreightWaves Staff Sunday, March 8, 2020

Commitment and Communication

I have enjoyed my tenure as TCA Profitability Program (TPP) Retention Coach for many reasons but mostly as it has given me the opportunity to visit several trucking companies on both sides of the border. I genuinely love taking a brief look “under the hood” of these great companies and relish the opportunities in helping to reduce the driver turnover numbers. Helping to make a company successful gives me great deal of pride when drivers don’t have to go home and tell their families they no longer have a job.

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