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Many of the generous incentives California offers for fleets to transition to electric trucks will begin to disappear as regulations lock in.

An all-electric truck future by 2045 could face serious roadblocks.

This week in Borderlands: Port Laredo remains the nation’s No. 1 gateway for international trade; rail cargo thefts were up 29% during Q1 in Mexico; a Taiwan automotive supplier is investing $1 billion for Mexico expansion; and Forza Steel is building a plant at the Port of Brownsville.

Truck drivers in Washington state can start using shipper/consignee bathrooms effective July 23, with certain conditions, under a bill signed earlier this month.

Back-to-school season is near, and planning is underway among shippers and logistics companies.

Peace Equipment LLC, a company headquartered in Edcouch, Texas, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection due to rising operating costs and reduced income in the trucking industry.

Volumes did see some growth ahead of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday, though not nearly enough to bust out the champagne and sparklers.

On demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by NASA’s Mike Ewert and Nicole Pinotek; Mike Klemmer and Kevin Hill

Merchant mariners during WWII were an integral part of war efforts, despite being lesser known. They saw the most casualties and were responsible for transporting all of the supplies throughout the war, a crucial part of the Allies’ success.

School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference?

The two largest home improvement retailers cut their full-year sales guidance in Q1, a rarity; many other retailers also pointed to intensifying pressure on Americans’ ability to spend money as the year has progressed.

Surface Transportation Board Chair Marty Oberman at a national rail shippers conference urged the railroads to increase their employee levels as a way to improve rail service.

“Investors have shifted from a growth-at-all-costs mindset to focus on the path to profitability and scalable growth. No startup, not even the rocket ships of logistics technology, will be immune to these trends,” says project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless.

Since leaving Total Quality Logistics in April 2021, ex-broker Jacob Patterson has been embroiled in a legal battle with the Cincinnati-based freight brokerage over claims that he has violated his noncompete agreement twice in the past two years.

Embark Technology, an early leader in autonomous trucking software development, becomes part of Applied Intuition in a $71 million deal.

BNSF is offering additional sick leave days to some members allifated with SMART-TD.

Unannounced Brake Safety Day results in a better compliance rate this year than in 2022.

In this issue, Southeast heats up; trucking goes hybrid; Lego Mack; and more.

Rail has been featured in movies, television, radio and all forms of entertainment since the beginning of trains. We collaborated to narrow down a list of some of our favorite movies that are related to trains.

Nikola has a minimum of 180 days to get its share price above $1 or it could be delisted from the Nasdaq.

A slow economy and better carrier sourcing technology put shippers in a good spot, according to Reveel Group’s Josh Dunham.

Stepping up amid tragedy, Bestway Express’ CEO continues to make progress in growing the company and continuing his father’s legacy.

Major aviation players are seeking FAA approval for remote pilots to fly aircraft where they can’t see them.

Container volume at ports in Houston and New Orleans fell in April, while Corpus Christi was bolstered by crude oil exports.

Not all cargo markets are back to pre-COVID “normal.” Container shipping rates to South America remain elevated.

All eyes are on California’s new regulation to decarbonize drayage trucks. It probably won’t please everyone.

Navajo Transitional Energy Co. is asking the Surface Transportation Board to declare an emergency service order that would compel BNSF to ship more export coal from the company.

J. J. Keller & Associates Inc. broke down what businesses need to know about the MCS-150, its common challenges and how to stay compliant.

FreightWaves’ “State of Freight” webinar suggests there will be no surge in demand for freight capacity during 2023.

LASH carriers were the predecessors to today’s container ships. In 1974, soon after they hit the scene, a record number of the ships were built.

Union Pacific and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have struck a deal that addresses how train engineers might have a better work-life balance.

A truck broker lobby plans to regroup after losing momentum for a bill requiring interim standards for brokers.

The Teamsters union has authorized a strike at ABF Freight.

Freightos, an online reservation portal for freight shippers, is adding users, but heavy development costs and a weak shipping market make it difficult for the startup to reduce losses.

Large liquefied petroleum gas tankers are riding high on rising U.S. exports and higher Chinese import demand.

Gains in industrial real estate markets were reported in eastern and central Pennsylvania as well as greater Philadelphia.

Unprecedented high prices for used trucks a year ago have plummeted as new truck production moved past supply shortages.

Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to FreightWaves’ CTO about the story behind SONAR; Alan Adler on the Peterbilt 589 and tanking AV stocks

The quarterly earnings report of major truck lender BMO finally reflected the deterioration in the trucking market.

NS employees received a letter signed by President and CEO Alan Shaw and the presidents of 12 unions pledging collaboration to improve rail safety.

Freight broker Landstar cut its second-quarter revenue and earnings guidance as volumes and revenue per load were worse than expected halfway through the period.

Legislation to increase truck parking advanced in Congress during the markup of 16 supply chain-related bills.

Southern Companies provides drayage services at seven Southeast ports.

Forwarder Worldwide Logistics Group announced it has acquired customs brokerage P. W. Bellingall.

President Biden plans to veto a resolution passed by Congress on Tuesday to overturn the EPA’s rule on nitrogen oxide emissions from trucks.

The U.S. has asked trade officials to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Goodyear tire plant in Mexico.

Intermodal executives from J.B. Hunt and Schneider are hopeful for improving demand in the second half of 2023 but acknowledge it’s still too early to tell.

More signs are surfacing that the second half of the year won’t be a panacea to the international freight recession. Seko Logistics says there won’t be a surge in orders that fuels transportation spending.

Lordstown Motors dodged delisting from the Nasdaq by a reverse stock split, but its future remains murky.

As the popularity of online shopping increases, so do consumer expectations around shipment visibility and on-time delivery. This can lead to challenges for many retailers, especially when relying on generic carrier tracking solutions.

Amazon’s drone delivery dream isn’t dead, but it may be time for the firm to reassess its strategy.

GXO plans to run a new facility for consumer giant Kellogg in Belgium.

The more volatile and opaque market conditions become, the more opportunities scammers have to take advantage of unsuspecting companies. This is especially true when it comes to double brokering. 

Bed Bath & Beyond “failed to manage its own supply chain” and “exacerbated the bottlenecks faced by other shippers,” alleges OOCL.

The unions blast the Class I railroads’ public statements on the railroads’ efforts to bolster employee head count in a filing to the Surface Transportation Board.

Former employees and truck drivers for FreightWorks LLC claim the Rutherfordton, North Carolina-based truckload carrier violated federal law by failing to give a 60-day advance notice of a planned shutdown before firing nearly 200 workers on March 6.

The benchmark price used for setting most diesel fuel surcharges is down for the 16th time in 17 weeks.

Zim outperformed competitors on the way up and is falling faster than other carriers on the way down.

“We want [global shipping] to be self-explanatory, easy to navigate and easy for you to find the answer you are looking for,” says Maja Bernstein, vice president of industry relations at Fluent Cargo.

The airline subsidiary of ocean carrier CMA CGM has backed out of the U.S. market for the second time in six months.

Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by Titan Logistics Services Jenna Sargent; Gateway Crate & Freight’s Steven Tittle and FreightWaves’ Justin Martin

Trimac Transportation completes the acquisition of propane and butane carrier Transport Sylvain Lasalle.

Convoy’s co-founder and CEO suggests that FreightTech offerings have paved the way to disrupt fragmentation with a new model of shipping: the hybrid carrier model.

A 5-year-old judgment against Werner has been upheld on appeal by a Texas court, with the amount now standing at more than $100 million.

Transportation and logistics conglomerate R&R Express announced its second deal of the year on Monday.

The outsourced logistics arm of FedEx is opening up the way it shares data on electronic bookings for air cargo with a major customer.

This week in Borderlands: An Uber Freight report says cross-border trucking is showing continued resilience; a 3PL secures $100 million to expand its network of cross-border warehouses; a pepper puree manufacturer opens a production hub in New Mexico; and 26 people were killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer in Mexico.

BNSF will expand intermodal service offerings between Alliance, Texas, and its facility at the Port of Houston, which could benefit the markets of Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver.

Trans-Pacific spot rates have pared earlier gains and remain at loss-making levels. Demand has yet to rebound.

DHL Supply Chain and GXO Logistics are laying off at least 185 workers in Texas as a result of losing customers.

Reliance Partners’ CFO, Thomas Albrecht, warns about the underestimated impact of the ongoing bank crisis on the freight community. Discover how loan activity, interest rates, and funding for truckers and carriers may be affected.

So as not to bury the lede, this week’s lack of change in the PPI might ultimately prove to be the most exciting stability in quite some time.

Users need to plan for rapidly tightening logistics real estate markets next year, a Prologis report says.

Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by Dunavant’s Kelly Lomax; Seko’s Brian Bourke and Blue Bird Express’ Phil Hyland

Freight brokerage firm Coyote Logistics is laying off another round of workers as the freight market continues to slide.

Rail service may have improved but that shouldn’t relieve the Surface Transportation Board from pursuing shipper-friendly regulatory reforms, shippers say.

There’s plenty of cargo news in Canada with WestJet avoiding a pilots strike and Air Canada expanding its freighter network to Costa Rica.

Transportation startups that went for easy SPAC money never thought times would turn so ugly – certainly not so fast.

Norfolk Southern and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have reached a deal over sick leave.

The Trucking Alliance has long stood out for its unique structure and its departure from what might be thought of as trade group consensus.

Railroads are making targeted investments, developing innovative technologies and evolving operations to combat climate change.

Seventy years ago, Jackie Cochran broke the sound barrier. Here’s the story of how she did it.

Flexport has taken another step toward simplifying international freight transportation from manufacturing to e-commerce storefront.

Black women in the U.S. Army during WWII made up the 6888 battalion, whose sole job was to handle the mail for American soldiers. Their story has been largely ignored for decades – until now. Hear their story and learn about their impossible feats from a historian close to the project.

The founder and CEO of Supply Chain Fitness discusses the importance of driver health during Employee Health and Fitness Month.

FreightTech providers are examining disruptive global shipping modifications that would be detrimental without AI’s support.

CMA CGM Air Cargo is trying to find its footing as a new airline. It has begun flying to India instead of the U.S.

An annual survey from Descartes shows how brokers and forwarders are adjusting to the downside of the cycle.

DroneUp, the company powering drone delivery for the largest retailer in the world, has trimmed its head count.

The outgoing head of U.S. Xpress is joining a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based nonprofit that focuses on sustainable mobility entrepreneurs.

Cargo shipments will cease on Friday as WestJet pilots walk off the job. The airline is trying to avoid a chaotic situation by taking down aircraft ahead of the deadline.

Autonomous trucking software developer TuSimple will cut 300 more jobs and keep China operations it had planned to spin off or sell.

Port CEO’s resignation came a day after a story aired on a local TV station about his alleged excessive expenditures.

A bill seeking to simplify eligibility for truck driver apprenticeships is part of a legislative package addressing supply chain shortfalls.

Europe faced a potentially disastrous energy shortage after war broke out. LNG shipping played a vital role in limiting the fallout.