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Compliance director gets seat on industry committee; Ohio company hires two and promotes two.

Funding aims to keep Port’s market share as more freight moves to intermodal and off the roads.

“Trucking companies are locked in a competition with the construction industry for workers. One way they are trying to stand out is by increasing trucker salaries.”

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission has enacted an executive order by Gov. John Hickenlooper committing the state to low emission vehicle standards.

Even though the Department of Energy’s reported diesel per gallon price has risen 27% since early 2017, carriers have seen their net fuel expense per mile remain largely neutral.

Big storm will make trouble for drivers going through the Sierra Nevada heading into Thanksgiving. Heavy snow in the mountains, heavy rain in the valleys.

Ambrosus enables consumers and supply chain stakeholders to have better trust over the products they receive or consume, by using sensors that communicate to the blockchain.

With the ongoing, high-profile negative news surrounding Tesla, there is still interest in the company’s electric semi. Albertsons Companies, which operates well-known food and drug retailers across the country, has purchased 10 Tesla Semi all-electric trucks.

FedEx is expanding its alternative-fuel vehicle fleet with 1,000 electric vans from Chanje Energy, to be delivered over the next two years.

Just three years after its founding in Seattle by two former Amazon executives, the leading digital freight brokerage Convoy reached a unicorn valuation and took the #4 spot in the Freight.Tech 25.

Resilience360 offers end-to-end supply chain risk management. The platform alerts customers about supply chain incidents globally and risks to their global supply chain in almost real time. It’s an ever-expanding market, and the company is well-positioned for continued data aggregation.

Also today: going to jail for bogus CDLs; ecommerce driving the Canada Post labor dispute.

After making its first acquisition last year in a quarter-century, the company could be in the market for another one, according to CEO John Roberts.

U.S. consumers are bearing less of the burden of the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs than Chinese producers, according to EconPol Europe.

Ashley Coker (CART: DATA FROM DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND TCA INGAUGE IN FREIGHTWAVES’ SONAR) Even though the Department of Energy’s reported diesel per gallon price has risen 27% since early […]

While there’s impetus for negotiations to move quickly, defining the scope could be tricky during the lead-up to discussions, says Asia Society vice president.

While Société Générale has not violated U.S. sanctions in five years, it agreed to settle potential liability involving Cuba, Iran and Sudan from 2007 to 2012.

Peter Ulber will not stand for re-election at the annual general meeting in May.

Impact Transportation buys $275,000 battery-powered tractor for yard operations.

Company uses scenario of collision between LNG carrier and fishing boat for training.

Higher surcharges to carry through peak season.

Wildfires continue to burn in California in the West freight region, but some relief is on the way soon. Much needed rain should move through the Golden State from Wednesday through Black Friday, helping douse the fires.

Construction workers have broken ground on a 378,405-square-foot warehouse located a mile from Interstate 80 in the San Francisco Bay area.

The union also rejected binding arbitration, though Canada Post did not explicitly ask for that.

The Panama spread (FBX.PANA) widened last night when Freightos released new container rates for this week: rates from China to the American East Coast (FBX.CNAE) climbed to $3,683, while rates to the West Coast (FBX.CNAW) fell slightly to $2,527.

The deadline is 5 p.m. November 19.

Operations to vary depending on pilot markets.

Rain will douse California wildfires this week, but landslides, mudslides also possible. Heavy snow to cover the Sierra Nevada.

Net-zero carbon emissions from the transportation sector is possible by 2050 if industry starts to make changes now, says a new report.

Trucking executive points to final mile delivery as draining driver pool, so think about that on Cyber Monday.

We would be hard pressed to find a more colorful and controversial company than Tesla, making it as high as number 3 on our Freight.Tech list.

E-scooter startup Lime is having problems with vehicles catching fire – a problem it attributes to the batteries produced by Ninebot. It also is hearing complaints of bikes breaking down, which it figures is a design flaw of all Okai-manufactured vehicles, leading to a mass recalls on the said bikes.

 Upcoming summit could provide surprise deal, but acrimony and lack of consensus puts deal in doubt.

BIMCO projects with capacity growing at half of this year’s levels, “the fundamental balance can only improve.”

The Commerce Department agency is tasked with figuring out which new technologies should receive additional export oversight for national security purposes.

The Trump administration will collect comments through Jan. 15 and will hold a hearing Jan. 29 as it develops negotiating positions.

The ITC reversed its decision to slap a limited exclusion order on imports and a cease-and-desist order on sales after Toshiba and the petitioner reached a settlement.

Taiwanese carrier will pay $124 million to $140 million for four 2,500-TEU containerships.

Carrier is cooperating with Hapag-Lloyd and MSC to offer “market-leading transit times.”

An office is opening in Seattle and promotions are taking place in London and New York.

The union lays out in surprising detail what it is seeking.

Cordero talked about record container volumes, tariffs and the status of billions of dollars in Port modernization projects.

With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, drivers are spending less time on the road and more time at home. This is shrinking the availability of capacity in the market.

The two sides have been negotiating for a year, and e-commerce is a big part of the basis for the standoff.

The decision in favor of Horizon turned on a narrow question of where one of the employees’ case should be heard.

Spireon hosted a webinar in collaboration with FreightWaves earlier this week to explore the importance of building a fleet safety culture and how to do it the right way.

Largest industrial facility in Port of NY/NJ region to be built in 2 years.

Executives from MoLo, Steam, and Arrive gave insight into the complexity of West Coast freight market volatility, which goes beyond tariffs, and talked about how brokerages and shippers are responding.

Another in a long series of autumn snow storms to make trouble for truckers in the Rockies this weekend. Snow, ice to make some roads dangerous.

“Amazon Prime, the company’s $119/year membership program which offers free two-day shipping and now boasts more than 100 million members, seems to be a key driver of their growth.”

Shippers seeking visibility into their freight will find APIs provide an easier solution than legacy data interchange systems.

Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group that has dabbled in hundreds of businesses over the years, can now add U.S. commuter train operator to his portfolio.

In a normal year, the Port of Oakland stands out from other U.S. ports for exporting more than it imports. Not this year.

FreightWaves adds benchmark KPIs for asset based carriers and new weather mapping feature.

Emerge, a startup providing Private Freight Marketplace (PFM) and TMS, and striving to increase visibility into freight supply chains, has raised $20 million in a seed round led by Greycroft Partners.

There are no filings with the SEC that indicate the company purchased an actual trucking company, just some tweets and statements to Bloomberg.

Uber and Lyft saw a steady growth in revenue this quarter, as they continue to invest heavily in mobility sharing segments, with Uber forking out into food delivery and truck hauling segments as well.

Industrial output rose for the fifth consecutive month in October, with strength in the manufacturing sector outweighing softening activity in mining production. Hurricane season again disrupted activity, with Hurricane Michael restraining total production slightly during the month.

There is no timeline for implementation of any new NOx rulemaking, but there are a couple of key questions that must be answered: What will the limits be and how much will this cost?

At a two-day conference in which rapid technology development and what’s to come was the focus of so many presentations, Eric Fuller of U.S. Xpress (NYSE: USX) provided a reality check.

The International Trade Commission held a hearing Thursday and Friday to inform its report on the likely economic impacts of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

By joining BiTA, Orange Business Services confirms its co-innovation approach with customers and partners to help enable the wide adoption of blockchain applications in digital supply chain solutions by standardizing developed use cases.

Imports into the U.S. grew an estimated 5-10 percent last quarter while U.S. exports to China fell 25-30 percent.

European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the list has U.S. products targeted for retaliation should the Trump administration impose automotive tariffs on Europe.

dexFreight founders Hector Hernandez and Rajat Rajbhandari want the supply chain community to realize that blockchain is for them.

Higher volumes are not able to offset a decline in freight rates and higher fuel costs.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance issued new guidance dissuading enforcement officials from waking up sleeping drivers in order to perform random inspections.

The company targets $100 million incremental increase in operating profit within two years.

Fresh off strong third quarter earnings, Werner Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN) President and CEO Derek Leathers was optimistic about the company’s future moving into peak season and beyond during a fireside chat presentation at Baird 2018 Global Industrial Conference in Chicago, Illinois.  

Retail activity posted the strongest gain in five months, as big gains in auto sales and rising gasoline prices helped to drive overall activity. Core spending grew at a more moderate pace, but the broad-based nature of the gains is encouraging headed into the holiday season.

Two huge wildfires in California have killed dozens of people, scorched nearly 200,000 acres of land. Winds and drought set the stage.

Pilot underway in Dallas-Ft.Worth market.

U.S. Xpress CEO Fuller warns that a lot of companies are still working with 30-year-old technology.

The year 2018 has been a big one for Nikola Corporation, and investors continue to line up to support the hydrogen-electric truck startup. Next year might be even bigger.

SwanLeap tops another prestigious list recognizing the fastest-growing North American companies in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech sectors based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2014 to 2017.

The original notice failed to include propane. It can become a factor particularly if deliveries go on past 12 hours.

Retail activity posted the strongest gain in five months, as big gains in auto sales and rising gasoline prices helped to drive overall activity. Core spending grew at a more moderate pace, but the broad-based nature of the gains is encouraging headed into the holiday season.

Omnitracs would be leveraging Rubrik’s APIs to accelerate its journey towards digital transformation, with a reported 90% saving in time spent working on legacy solutions.

Hublock, a software solution based on data-sharing layer has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards relating to blockchain in the transportation/logistics/supply chain marketplace.

In partnership with Reliance Partners …Since July 2017, dayzz has been developing an evidence-based, personalized sleep training app for enterprise workforces to improve sleep quality while reducing healthcare and employer costs.

On Wednesday at the Texan Gaylord Resort and Convention Center, following MarketWaves18, members of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) met to receive updates on the organization’s progress toward data standards, hear announcements, share feedback, and learn about the work being done by BiTA’s think thanks.

Amazon came out on top according to the judges in FreightWaves’ Research Institute’s inaugural Freight.Tech 25, which identified the most disruptive and innovative companies in the freight space.

Also in the pickup: vets get a shot at free CDL training; another dispatch from the parking wars

World’s largest container lines plan to look at emerging technologies as new options come to the market.

If you are a small fleet or an owner-operator, discounted products are often just a dream. J.B. Hunt is looking to change that.

The commission remains concerned about how terminal operators of the West Coast MTO Agreement will apply the joint fee pricing process.

Korean carrier will “put its utmost efforts to stably secure additional cargoes” to fill the 20 ships on order.

At Marketwaves18, Eric Berdinis said the industry can all benefit from a greater level of cooperation.

IT executives from Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and ONE aim to create open standards that other stakeholders in the industry can freely use.

Daniel Maffei could return to the agency and could be joined by Florida maritime industry veteran L. E. Sola.

The Trump administration will block U.S. business transactions involving Saudi officials who allegedly took part in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

Brent Bruun and Mark Woodhead are given more duties, Jake Gilene is named senior vice president and Luc Smulders is appointed secretary-general.

Training app for mobile devices also added to portfolio of products.

How much volume is POLA pulling from Q1 activity?

The following answers were pulled from the 2018 King of the Road survey from Atlas Van Lines.

It’s a tricky balance between risk and safety, but in the trucking world, before freight futures, there was no way to protect a company’x exposure.

BiTA member, Filament, demonstrated an important new product, and announced a major partnership this week.

Representing some of the most dynamic and disruptive technologies in the market today, demos from Shipwell, J.B. Hunt, Redwood Logistics, and Platform Science took top honors as they were voted Best in Show by MarketWaves18 attendees.

Good times at U.S. ports not expected to last as world’s largest shipping line warns trade war will rear up at start of next year.