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Volvo Group reported higher truck sales, profits and market share in the second quarter despite ongoing supply chain disruptions.

Approximately 100 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 refused to cross the protest line Tuesday as owner-operators blocked the gates of the SSA terminal, which is the largest operator at the Port of Oakland, in opposition of California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.

Boeing, Airbus and independent aviation engineering companies are trying to meet demand for converting standard passenger jets to cargo configuration.

Anahuac Transport Inc. pleaded guilty to potentially contaminating rocket fuel it transported to the Johnson Space Center.

The Department of Labor and federal prosecutors in New York are investigating safety concerns at Amazon warehouses.

Even as some consider allowing customers to keep unwanted items, many e-commerce sellers still consider returns a path to customer loyalty.

While many expect digital freight to disintermediate the broker, MVMNT has other plans in store.

The benchmark DOE/EIA diesel price has now declined for four weeks and the latest drop is the largest since 2014.

After a slow showing early Monday morning, an estimated 400 owner-operators managed to shut down truck traffic at all three terminals — SSA, TraPac and Everport — at the Port of Oakland to protest California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.

Temperature-controlled carrier Marten Transport rode higher yield metrics to a record quarter.

Boeing is more optimistic about demand for air cargo over the next 20 years, which is why it forecasts a need for 540 more freighters than competitor Airbus.

Nikola will try for a fourth time to win a proxy fight with indicted founder Trevor Milton as the electric truck maker fell short of votes again.

Outbound reefer volumes for Milwaukee trend upward during the summer months more than others.

Tankers are very busy loading up with American crude oil and refined products sold to overseas buyers.

Logistics real estate investment trust Prologis on Monday pointed to some moderation in demand trends but pushed its full-year financial expectations higher.

China’s “dynamic COVID-zero policy” means more government-mandated testing — and more drayage delays.

California companies may be able to get up to $500,000 per purchase of a qualified zero-emission terminal tractor, refrigeration unit or forklift.

GXO Logistics Inc. plans to permanently shutter its Milwaukee-area facility and lay off 144 workers by September.

Truckers protest AB5 Oakland, rail strike averted, and ILWU is still working without a contract. How are these crisis impacting freight?

College Station will join Lockeford, California, as one of Amazon’s earliest U.S. drone delivery test markets.

A First Amendment lawsuit filed by a trucker convoy group against the District of Columbia government lacks standing, the city contends.

Seattle-based Flexe recently reached a $1 billion valuation with its latest $119 million series D funding round.

Inflation has taken a bite out of furniture sales, but consumers are still buying, according to a delivery expert.

Logistics warehouse owner Prologis reported in-line second-quarter financials Monday but full-year expectations were increased on “healthy demand.”

Experts expected a closing of the gap between record-high auction and retail used truck prices. Now both are in retreat.

Chameleon carriers have been a dangerous part of the transportation industry for decades, experts say.

A turboprop cargo plane owned by a Ukrainian airline crashed in Greece with a load of weapons for Bangladesh’s military.

“We need more people to step up and donate goods and supply chain services.”

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Texas port begins $68M channel improvement project; U.S. authorizes entry of Jalisco avocados; Commodities Integrated Logistics Group expands in Pharr; and Texas CBP intercepts first-in-port pests in shipment of flowers.

This week: Loadsmart teams up with The Home Depot Foundation to support veterans, Ruan aids community after celebrating its 90th anniversary, and Walmart donates to nonprofits at the grand opening of a new e-commerce fulfillment center in Pennsylvania.

Container shipping spot rates continue to ease but are still many times higher than they were pre-pandemic.

Outbound tender city volume in the Detroit market has boomed over the summer with no signs of slowing in the second half of the year.

In the nine days since July began, OTRI fell 141 basis points (bps) to its lowest level in over two years: 6.7%. In the three days following that bottom, OTRI clawed back 50 bps. At present, however, it seems as though any upward momentum upon which it could have built has been lost.

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order calling for a three-person board to investigate the issues behind the contract discord between the railroads and unions.

These five reverse logistics companies took the spotlight at The Lead Innovation Summit this week.

The supply side is in a “pencils down” mode as higher rates change ROI calculations.

AB5 protest organizer talks about the meaning behind the movement; would you let a robot handle your freight contracts and the key to driver onboarding on demand on WTT

The Canadian government says it will fund infrastructure projects in Saskatchewan and Ontario, as well as research into how the railways can respond to climate-induced events.

Yang Ming’s newest 11,000-TEU container ship will call the Port of Los Angeles on its maiden voyage.

Sam Stockdale discusses Link Logistics’ decarbonizing strategy for logistics infrastructure on FreightWavesTV’s Net-Zero Carbon.

While technology has a place in the evolution of transportation, not everything in the day-to-day operations should be replaced by it. Interpersonal relationships are essential and the foundation for success.

The Biden administration wants to speed an effort unveiled in March to create a first-time freight data exchange for U.S. container shipments.

Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels says letting things slide can have deadly consequences.

Canadian trucking association says officials still need to iron out all the details for the ELD mandate scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.

“While this was not an easy decision to make, restructuring our organization keeps us on a path of success, provides the opportunity to improve efficiency and collaboration and allows us to better address the evolving needs of our customers,” said project44 founder and CEO Jett McCandless.

Drone delivery provider Zipline adds yet another health care company to its list of delivery partners.

Layoffs get the attention but plenty of electric transportation startups are still hiring. They are getting creative with fundraising, too.

“Oil and gas money is so embedded in many local budgets, it’s difficult to imagine a future without it,” a recent New York Times article said.

Insurance and risk management firm TT Club says “Book it right and pack it tight” provides guidance for preparing unitized consignments of dangerous goods for carriage by sea.

As inflation has taken hold, consumers have shifted buying habits, but data suggests those changes are happening in different ways across the country.

New guidance from the Federal Maritime Commission on disputing ocean carrier charges is considered a “landmark moment” by U.S. exporters.

Pennsylvania markets see a drop in volumes but a rise in rejections. Booking volumes for imported maritime volumes are down 11%.

Jennifer Rumsey grew up in Columbus, Indiana, where Cummins Inc. is based. Next month, she will become its first female CEO.

In this issue, AB5 port protests enter day 2; SoCal rail chaos; the wrong way to email drivers; heated seats as a service; and more.

AB5 fallout and freight labor unrest are adding to inflation fears, Republican lawmakers are told.

Drivers find the fleet camera system to be more of a wingman than a watchdog.

Ocean carrier HMM announced Thursday it will invest $7.5 billion over the next five years on ships, terminals and logistics facilities.

Railroad crews are facing “all-time low” morale. They could legally strike in July, worsening supply-chain congestion.

After a record year of freight demand in 2021, carriers playing in the spot market benefited from a blank check when naming rates. The federal stimulus enabled consumers to pay […]

The 1,158-acre Gulf Inland Logistics Park near Houston includes a switching railroad and has access to two Class I railroads and major highways.

Wing, the drone delivery arm of Alphabet, is laying out flight plans with an array of advanced aircraft prototypes.

Drayage provider ContainerPort Group has announced the addition of truck capacity in key port markets.

Axle Logistics has partnered with the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business to turn out more well-trained, entry-level sales professionals.

Pilot Co. will build a public network of high-speed charging stations with General Motors to get ahead of electric vehicle charging demand.

KLLM Transport Services, one of the nation’s largest temperature-controlled carriers, on Thursday announced its acquisition of Quest Global.

While companies generally support the Securities and Exchange Commission’s goals of providing climate data to investors, they have apprehension about the burden the rules could place on small carriers.

Some California truckers turned off their trucks, blocked terminals or staged slow rolls to snarl traffic around the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday to express frustration over a controversial state law, AB5, that seeks to limit the use of independent contractors and largely classify them as employee drivers.

Peak season imports are expected to remain strong but rail delays require ‘immediate’ attention, says Port of LA’s Gene Seroka.

June shipments data from Cass shows the fourth decline in six months from 2021 levels.

Higher amounts of loaded imports and empty export boxes contributed to a nearly 15% increase in volumes.

Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen voted to strike if they deem it necessary as the unions and railroads fail to reach a contract agreement.

California’s trucking sector is looking at numerous ways to keep in compliance with AB5, but is doing so without specifics on what’s right and wrong.

Three of the U.S. Postal Service’s nonurgent delivery products will be brought under one umbrella.

WTT looks into an AB5 protest in SoCal; freight and economic outlook for Q3; new study says legal marijuana may lower rate of truck accidents and more

J.B. Hunt Transport Services said it will open a transload facility to serve Southern California’s ports. The move follows several other recent initiatives aimed at upping intermodal service.

Congress introduced a bill to protect the health of port communities and address climate and environmental justice issues.

Canada-based Shoreland Transport has acquired Connors Transfer Limited, increasing the company’s fleet to 258 trucks.

A new survey reports that manufacturers continue to adopt robots, but breakdowns continue to hamper production.

Bay Area-based Elroy Air just signed another agreement to deliver an order of its Chaparral aircraft.

From crude tankers to product carriers to dry cargo ships, the largest vessels are earning less than their smaller counterparts.

Some California truckers who move containers in and out of the marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to participate in a work stoppage Wednesday to protest a controversial state law, AB5.

Latam Cargo’s expanded freighter fleet has made it possible to open up extra dedicated service between Europe and the Americas.

Comments filed with the FMCSA underscore concerns over how the agency should regulate freight brokers and dispatchers.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants CSX to pay $121,200 total for workplace incidents that might have contributed to the December 2021 blast at the Curtis Bay Coal Terminal.

Canoo Inc. in May said its survival was iffy. With Walmart’s order of 4,500 electric delivery vehicles, the near term looks brighter.

The Atlanta market is beginning to boom again after experiencing a significant dip during the recent holiday.

XPO chooses RXO as the name of the soon-to-be-spun-off brokerage platform.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce regulations that aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants.

Mullen will deliver up to 600 electric cargo vans to DelPack Logistics, an Amazon Delivery Service Partner.

Trevor Milton is angling to use privileged conversations at the electric truck maker in his criminal defense, but Nikola is fighting back.

FarEye is rolling out the Last Mile Mandate this month, an effort to provide guidance to retailers seeking to succeed in the last mile.

Companies that want standard freighters from the pre-owned market are in a race to find suppliers. Raya Airways and ASL are in the door with their orders.

Work is underway to develop container-handling terminals in as many as five states along the Mississippi River.

The benchmark DOE/EIA diesel price was released on time for the first time in four weeks, and registered a more than 10-cent decline.

Import market share to LA and Long Beach remains high, but overall imports have decreased.

Southern California ports can’t evacuate import containers fast enough. The backlog has yet again reached critical levels.

Customers are eager to move products via rail once network congestion subsides, executives said during Greenbrier’s quarterly earnings call on Monday.

The air cargo market is down 8% to 9% in the past two months, but the decline is relative. 2022 is still shaping up well versus 2019, before the pandemic.

Prime Day 2022 begins Tuesday, but with slowing e-commerce growth, success might look different for Amazon this year.

The Biden administration’s proposed rule requiring new state-level tailpipe emissions performance measures sets dangerous precedents for infrastructure investment, according to road builders.