Month: September 2024
Linehaul rates increase year over year despite a challenging August.
/Dive Brief: Dive Insight:Contract rates remain down year over year, extending a decline that began in August 2022, highlighting ongoing pricing challenges, DAT observed.August also erased the spot rate gains made over the summer, with dry van rates dropping by 5 cents compared to July, reefer rates falling by 4 cents, and flatbed rates decreasing […]
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Trucking Companies Are Ready For The New Year To Bring New Truckloads
/As we look ahead to 2025, the logistics industry is poised to experience significant growth in truckload rates, driven by a confluence of factors that are reshaping the transportation landscape. The demand for freight services is expected to rise, fueled by a booming e-commerce sector and the ongoing recovery from global supply chain disruptions. Companies […]
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“Texas truckers from the U.S.-Mexico border are bringing their labor protest to New York City.”
/Borderlands is a weekly update on developments in U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week’s highlights include: Texas truckers taking their labor protest to New York City, a rise in exports of Mexico-built cargo trucks in August, Mexico’s largest bank opening a nearshoring office in Houston, and Stonepeak’s acquisition of a 1.1 million-square-foot logistics property […]
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Challenges faced by the global trucking industry.
/At a recent meeting at IRU headquarters in Geneva, stakeholders from the U.S. and global trucking industries discussed and compared solutions to major challenges affecting road freight transport operations. The issues facing the U.S. trucking sector, such as chronic driver shortages, ambitious decarbonization goals, inefficient driver training, and insufficient secure parking, are similar to those […]
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According to the NTSB, the fatal Triton crash resulted from a fatigued driver and fake hours-of-service records.
/A fatigued truck driver and a company culture that bypassed hours-of-service (HOS) regulations using falsified logs contributed to a deadly 2022 crash in Virginia involving a slow-moving party bus, according to a federal safety investigation. The Triton Logistics tractor-trailer was traveling at 65.5 mph on cruise control just before the collision, with engine control module […]
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Canadian railroad workers represented by the Teamsters union are appealing an order for binding arbitration.
/The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference is challenging a government-mandated binding arbitration order that ended a brief lockout of union workers and resumed operations for Canada’s major rail carriers on Monday. A spokesperson for the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) clarified in an email to Supply Chain Dive on Friday that the legal challenge does not […]
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The six major challenges facing the trucking industry
/Running a profitable trucking business is complex, requiring operators to navigate a range of challenges. Here are the six biggest hurdles faced by haulage and transport companies today:
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Volkswagen might withdraw its no-layoffs commitment.
/FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen has stated that current challenges in the auto industry could result in potential plant closures in Germany and the end of a long-standing job protection agreement that has been in place since 1994, which would have prevented layoffs until 2029. “The European automotive industry is facing a very demanding and serious […]
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An expert says that US-Mexico trade relations have entered “uncharted territory.”
/Against a backdrop of soaring U.S.-Mexico trade and growth along the border regions, the World Affairs Council of San Antonio, Texas, hosted a panel discussion Wednesday titled “U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Relationship: North America as a Region.” The panel featured former Mexican Ambassador to the United States Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez; Romanita Matta-Barrera, chief advancement officer for Greater:SATX […]
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