There is much truth in that adage, “If you bought it, a truck brought it.” Ships and planes transport products around the world, but the last stage in the journey to their final destination is frequently via truck. This is true not only of products reaching store shelves, but the transportation of raw materials to factories at the start of the manufacturing process. In the U.S alone, more than 80 percent of all communities rely on trucks for the delivery of food, fuel, clothing and medicine.

Safety First: Best Practices for Heavy Hauling Operations

Introduction to Heavy Hauling Safety Heavy hauling, the transportation of oversized and overweight cargo, is a vital industry that keeps… Read More

Infrastructure Issues Hinder Weakened U.S. Trucking

Haylle Sok 8:48 AM  5/27/2016

“The U.S. trucking industry is already teetering on the edge of crisis mode – if it hasn’t entered it already… Read More

U.S. Senate Committee Approves Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Reauthorization

Peter Buxbaum 6:48 AM  5/26/2016

The United States Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee approved a standalone, five-year reauthorization of the Diesel Emission Reduction… Read More

Asset Based Intermodal Joins U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership

Haylle Sok 8:18 AM  5/24/2016

Asset Based Intermodal, Inc. has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, a collaboration between the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)… Read More

C3 Solutions Adds Yard Management to Logistics Cloud Platform

Peter Buxbaum 3:37 AM  5/24/2016

C3 Solutions, a provider of yard management and dock scheduling solutions, has announced the availability of C3 Yard, the newest… Read More

Ben & Jerry’s: Strict Truck Emissions Rules Help Profits and the Planet

Haylle Sok 6:14 AM  5/18/2016

Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim has published a response to an op-ed on a trucking news site that argued… Read More

UPS Expands Operations at San Antonio Facility

Haylle Sok 8:03 AM  5/17/2016

UPS has announced the expansion of its building in San Antonio. The expanded ground sorting facility will be retrofitted with… Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Unions Mount International Effort Against XPO Logistics

Peter Buxbaum 9:56 AM  5/11/2016

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, together with representatives of labor unions from the UK, France, and Belgium, attended the annual… Read More

California Issues Draft Plan for Freight System of the Future

Peter Buxbaum 6:05 AM  5/10/2016

State agency leaders in California last week released the Draft California Sustainable Freight Action Plan, a document that lays a… Read More

Roadrunner Transportation Systems Expands Outbound Service from Vancouver

Haylle Sok 1:15 PM  5/4/2016

Roadrunner Transportation Systems, Inc. today announced the expansion of its less-than-truckload service to include outbound service from Vancouver, British Columbia,… Read More

U.S. Proposes New Performance Measures to Reduce Highway Congestion

Peter Buxbaum 4:11 AM  5/2/2016

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released a proposed rulemaking outlining new performance measures to assess… Read More

California’s Strategy to Combat Climate Change

Peter Buxbaum 7:16 AM  4/27/2016

The California Environmental Protection Agency has released a proposed strategy on reducing the impacts of climate change focused on curbing… Read More