trucking

TFI International bought UPS Freight with plans to make the LTL carrier "lean and mean," a turn of phrase CEO Alain Bédard likes to use. While the company is implementing that strategy, including recent cuts to salespeople, one thing it needs more of is truck drivers.  As of late July, Montreal-...

Visibility is becoming more and more important in the logistics industry. Shippers naturally want to keep a close eye on their freight, and this instinct has only grown stronger in the face of pandemic-related uncertainty. "Everybody wants to know where their freight is because there are such...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation known as AB 701 that targets quotas in the warehouse industry. The legislation was introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who is also the author of AB 5, which targets independent contractors in the state. In the same way that Uber (NYSE:...

Logistics real estate investment trust Prologis Inc. announced Thursday it was expanding its training program aimed at tackling the growing need for logistics workers. Through its Community Workforce Initiative (CWI), the San Francisco-based industrial warehouse operator is adding six locations to...

Heavy, flooding rain that began in the South over the weekend eventually began drenching parts of the Midwest and Northeast Wednesday. Rain came down very heavily in Annapolis, MD, it caused flooding scenes like this one. More rain is on the way today, then the forecast looks much brighter...

The nation's top trucking regulator told lawmakers she is committed to taking concrete steps to reduce deaths and injuries from large-truck crashes. At her nomination hearing on Wednesday to be the seventh administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Meera Joshi, currently...

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) will integrate Aurora Innovation's high-autonomy software-equipped trucks from PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR) into its linehaul logistics operations in Texas, the latest example of real-world testing of robot-driven trucks. Aurora, a latecomer to autonomous trucking after...

Alongside persistent challenges like labor shortages, high fuel costs and surging insurance premiums, the transportation industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation in how information is collected, analyzed and used.  In order to compete in today's increasingly competitive marketplace,...

Volta Trucks recently announced it will work with Steyr in Austria to build its first all-electric delivery trucks. On this episode of Transmission, Grace Sharkey and Sebastian Blanco chat with co-founder Kjell Walöen about why Volta is using contract manufacturing and how that method will work...

California is leading the way on hydrogen fueling stations in the U.S. The state is expected to have the capacity to fuel 250,000 fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) at 1,764 open-retail hydrogen fueling stations by 2026, according to a recent California Air Resources Board (CARB) report.  The...

Until this month, the U.S. had only one all-electric automaker, the all-mighty Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA).  Last week, Rivian Automotive Inc. rolled its first pickup truck for regular customers off its assembly line in its Normal, Illinois plant with first deliveries just around the corner....

Electric vehicle maker Rivian, which is backed by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Ford (NYSE: F), and T. Rowe Price, is looking to raise between $5 billion and $8 billion in an initial public offering, Reuters is reporting. The company filed last month confidentially with the Securities and Exchange...

The plus-5% placeholder suggested as the starting point for contractual truckload negotiations in 2022 may prove too light according to trucking executives. Appearing at a Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) investor conference, heads from some of the nation's largest fleets said rates will likely be...

The Biden administration is asking a "broad range of stakeholders" involved with moving freight to help solve the country's container and intermodal chassis shortages while also trying to alleviate supply chain chokepoints. In an information request to be posted in the Federal Register on Thursday...

Ford and Argo AI, which are already collaborating on an autonomous vehicle pilot for a rideshare with Lyft, are adding a package delivery pilot to the mix with a separate agreement with Walmart. The three companies will begin autonomous vehicle delivery services in Miami, Austin, Texas, and...