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Authorities arrested four Mexican nationals in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found abandoned last year in a locked tractor-trailer.
AI is helping the logistics industry solve a massive coordination problem to establish transportation reliability and save shippers, carriers, and brokers a serious amount of time and money.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City, CSX and Genesee & Wyoming railroads aim to establish a direct interchange connection near Myrtlewood, Alabama.
XPO’s Miami-area facility had a contract between the Teamsters and the company, but the union has been voted out.
Western Global Airlines appears to be winding down operations for a potential bankruptcy.
Supply chain-focused startups Cart.com, Nuvocargo and CargoBot recently secured a combined $102 million in venture capital.
Two ships in 1975 traveled between Mediterranean and U.S. ports on a fixed 14-day schedule. But they also caught attention because they were able to carry different types of cargo, including containers as well as liquids.
Mexico-based transporter Traxion has acquired Las Vegas-based BBA Logistics for $10 million.
Without agreement, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien will demand UPS present its last, best and final offer.
Shares of Yellow Corp. plummeted Tuesday as a lawsuit against Teamsters revealed the company’s options are dwindling and it will be out of cash in a few weeks.
Criminals looking to steal high-value cargo are attracted to the vulnerabilities associated with international border crossings.
Electric pickup truck maker Lordstown Motors has filed for bankruptcy while alleging fraud against Foxconn, its former partner.
Tomorrow.io’s satellite constellation will transmit near-real-time scans of precipitation, ocean and atmospheric profiles for any point on Earth.
A developer has completed a sophisticated cargo terminal at Chicago O’Hare airport. The tenant has moved in. But cargo planes can’t pull up to load and unload because of construction delays for a new taxiway.
Long global supply chains and the exposure to risk started company executives thinking through their global sourcing and manufacturing strategies. Now they are considering nearshoring and reshoring.
FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain rapid-fire demo best-in-show winners include Ryder, Trucker Tools, Truckstop and Turvo.
The benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges declined Monday for the 19th time in 21 weeks.
The newly approved Ground Advantage product combines three existing Postal Service offerings into one.
Days after Grant Goodale, Convoy’s co-founder and chief experience officer, announced he is stepping down, the department he led is reducing head count.
The Wagner mutiny is drawing attention to what happens after the war in Ukraine ends. When it does, shipping will see major changes.
About 94% of transportation executives said consumer demand for more sustainable products is driving industry action.
Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by J.B. Hunt’s Shelley Simpson; Traveler’s Craig Leinauer; J.J. Keller’s Joshua Lovan; Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels
Logistics warehouse owner Prologis announced Monday the $3.1 billion acquisition of an industrial real estate portfolio owned by Blackstone.
The marketplace is at its most fragile when rates plummet and virtually every carrier is scouting out opportunities to earn more. Unfortunately, many of the “too good to be true” rates carriers come across in a precarious market are just that: not true.
FreightWaves’ Innovation Alley at the Future of Supply Chain event featured FreightTech demos from Ezlogz and Bridgestone Mobility Solutions/Azuga.
The Surface Transportation Board has ordered BNSF to meet the Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s request for more coal trains.
Hydrogen’s historical link to the Hindenburg disaster is receding as its use as a transportation fuel grows.
The Port of Cleveland thinks it has the capabilities to grow its footprint.
J. J. Keller advises that with on-site investigations and fines growing, carriers should focus efforts on compliance and record management.
Food brands are cooling it on price hikes. That means trucking companies will have more grocery volume to move.
This week in Borderlands: Florida tomato growers want the U.S. to terminate a Mexico trade deal; a Texas border bridge is shut down temporarily by migrant crossings; Union Pacific will provide rail access to an Arizona industrial park; and Tesla issues a second recall for the electric Semi truck.
A train derailment Saturday morning sent multiple tanker cars carrying hazardous materials into the Yellowstone River.
The owner of Florida-based Royal Bengal Logistics has been arrested on fraud charges in connection with a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
Electric truck maker Nikola Corp. says foul play is suspected in a fire that damaged multiple trucks on Friday.
“There are qualified mechanical inspectors at all these points, and they were not allowed to inspect this car at any of those locations,” Jason Cox, of the Transportation Communications Union, testified at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing Friday.
Concerns over highly dilutive share offerings by microcap shipowners have been building for years. The debate just intensified.
The Teamsters union says it will not meet with UPS again unless the company provides a better proposal.
One shipment of grapefruit to Japan threatened the future of the Florida citrus industry after Caribbean fruit fly larvae were discovered. Japan enacted an embargo on all Florida citrus to protect its own citrus groves in the southern islands. The embargo was lifted after Florida’s sector worked tirelessly to eradicate the larvae.
The collapsed portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia reopened to traffic at midday Friday, beating all the forecasts.
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Reliance Partners’ Kevin Dupree sheds light on what underwriters look for when determining a company’s or driver’s insurance risk.
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association said less-than-truckload industry participants are seeing benefits from using electronic bills of lading.
ASL Airlines United Kingdom has two cargo planes in its fleet after receiving a Boeing 737-800 converted freighter.
During NMFTA’s June webinar, IT professional Chloe Callahan shares how industrial control systems are applicable to the trucking industry.
The value of supply chain visibility will continue soaring, says project44 Chief Industry Officer Bart De Muynck.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Live from FreightWaves Future of Supplu Chain Day 1
UPS and the Teamsters union have wrapped up noneconomic issues. The hard part, economic issues, lies ahead.
Roadmaster Drivers School President Brad Ball joins Taking the Hire Road to discuss the importance of bringing new drivers to the industry.
Class I railroads CPKC and CSX are working together on developing CPKC’s conversion kits that can retrofit diesel locomotives into hydrogen locomotives.
A research note from investment firm Cowen predicts reciprocal switching will hurt U.S. Class I railroads financially.
NHTSA and FMCSA are proposing that all new trucks over 10,000 pounds be equipped with automatic emergency braking systems.
Harbor Trucking Association’s Matt Schrap warns about the effects that California’s carbon emissions restriction is having on the drayage industry and the environment.
Is the semiconductor chip shortage tapering off, and what’s happening with electric vehicles?
Global marketer Andrew Lark used a racing analogy to compare how freight companies can survive and even grow their businesses during a recession by focusing on customer experience and marketing.
The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a field hearing in East Palestine, Ohio, to garner more information on why the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train happened.
Grant Goodale, co-founder and chief experience officer of digital trucking network Convoy, announced this week he is stepping down from the startup.
XPO announced the completion of a capacity expansion project in the Western part of its network.
CPKC and Americold are collaborating on building a refrigerated service network for markets in the Midwest and Mexico.
Companies and governments are moving to de-risk their supply chains, says CNN and Financial Times economics expert Rana Foroohar.
California has made its case in the latest round of AB5 legal proceedings, and it can cite the past trucking year in its arguments.
More than half of winners earn distinction for 1st time, 2 add 5th straight
Users of Container Atlas can streamline their global supply chains with cutting-edge ocean freight analytics.
After originally working with TuSimple, Loadsmith picks Kodiak Robotics for autonomous driving systems.
FedEx is downsizing its fleet again during the next 12 months to match weak international and domestic package shipping demand, and save money.
Former NFL star Desmond Clark admits his journey from the gridiron as a 12-year veteran, playing seven years for the Chicago Bears, to starting his own brokerage, Bear Down Logistics, has been challenging but said he was determined to succeed in this tumultuous freight market.
Rob Haddock, group director of transportation strategy for Coca-Cola North America, has spent his entire career — over 40 years — in all areas of the supply chain but says transportation has always been his passion.
At the Future of Supply Chain event, the Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy lays out the case for measuring wealth in terms of hours of labor needed to buy goods and services.
Long-term pricing trends don’t budge much, a L’Oréal executive says.
BNSF is seeking a waiver from the Federal Railroad Administration to expand a brake health technology program, and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen supports the effort.
The collaboration among Convoy, J.B. Hunt, Uber Freight and others to use technology to streamline scheduling at the dock level is proceeding as planned, according to company leaders at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain conference in Cleveland.
The end of a 40-year economic boom cycle and America military strategy are combining to make China less fearsome than global impressions.
PalletTrader is an online marketplace specifically designed for buying and selling pallets and pallets only. Since its launch in October, it has reached 1 million transactions and is rolling out an expanded service. But why is PalletTrader growing so fast and why do we need a marketplace just for pallets?
Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. has asked pension and health and welfare fund plan administrators for a two-month extension.
The logistics pipeline is a tea leaf forecasting China’s economy and the flow of freight tells investors the bottom line of logistics companies.
The heads of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers want swift action on the rail safety bill that passed the Senate Commerce Committee last month.
Vizion’s solution allows users to receive tracking updates for all containers across both ocean and rail without a letter of authorization.
The Teamsters and UPS have reached a tentative agreement on more than 40 noneconomic issues.
Year-on-year revenue at FedEx was down $2.7 billion, while diluted earnings per share beat estimates slightly; CFO Michael Lenz plans to retire at the end of July.
The benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges moved higher this week after eight straight drops.
Hair testing finds significantly more opioid, cocaine and meth use by truck drivers versus testing for those drugs using urinalysis, a recently updated study finds.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is now predicting a reopening of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia this coming weekend.
Roadrunner has announced more long-haul, direct service lanes.
Trans-Pacific spot shipping rates remain under pressure, slumping back again as U.S. import demand comes up short.
To help you navigate the constant and transformative changes moving today’s supply chain, DHL Supply Chain’s Transportation Quarterly Report highlights what to watch each quarter.
Express operations will be in charge of FedEx’s unified Ground and Express network in Canada.
OnTrac said about three-quarters of retailers surveyed plan to invest in two-day delivery over the next two years.
A bad pilot decision at the outset of an emergency on a Transair freighter cascaded into more mistakes that resulted in a crash landing at sea off Hawaii two years ago, investigators said.
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Justin Bailie told FreightWaves that Rose Rocket has seen 47x growth since its last raise in 2021 by focusing on product-led expansion.
The first order for cargo jets at the Paris Air Show only involved two planes and is for converted, not new production, freighters.
About $2.3 trillion was spent to keep the nation’s logistics system operating in 2022, according to the 34th State of Logistics Report.
Paccar Inc. is recalling 4,914 Peterbilt Model 579 Class 8 trucks because a misplaced fastener can chafe alternator insulation to catch fire.
Conceding digital brokerage got a “bad name” early on, Uber Freight’s Souder looks to add human element to the experience.
The company plans to leverage RetailOps’ technical talent to accelerate product development and provide brands with omnichannel solutions.
