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Normally one of the softest regions for truckload activity in the U.S., the Pacific Northwest has become the tightest in the nation.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico fully opens its market to U.S. potatoes; a Japanese auto parts maker completes a $29 million Mexico expansion; Charger Logistics is opening a Texas facility; and CG Railway launches its second U.S.-Mexico ferry.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Could Austin-San Antonio region be the next Freight Alley?; Texas industrial […]

Farmers in Texas and Louisiana have suffered at least $600 million in damage due to spring and winter storms.

“We’ve only harvested 40% of our acres and still have about 60% in the ground.” Tens of millions of dollars of potato crops damaged.

Potato farmers are asking U.S. agricultural officials for support in expanding export trade into Mexico.  Currently, American potato farmers and exporters are mostly barred from selling fresh potatoes in Mexico […]