DAILY HOT LINKS
MORE STORIES
MORE NEWS
Borderlands Mexico: Identity thieves target customs payments in cross-border freight
Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: Identity thieves target customs payments in cross-border freight;…
Sunday Edition: NOAA
Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week An unusual outbreak of both E. coli and Salmonella linked to sprouts continues to widen. As of Oct. 1, there were 76 confirmed patients across 16 states. One company,…
Truckload’s mixed signals
Chart of the Week: Accepted SONAR Tender Volume Index, National Truckload Index – USA SONAR: ASTVI.USA, NTI.USA The truckload market is giving mixed signals. Spot rates are rising quickly, but the freight carriers are…
Daimler Truck Defence sells scale to armies short on trucks
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European armies have needed military trucks in volume and on short timelines. Daimler Truck is betting that need favors a manufacturer whose defense vehicles come out of the same…
Publisher’s Platform: Put Me Out of the Lettuce Business. Please.
I just landed from Norway a few hours ago after speaking at a food safety conference in Oslo for two days and chasing the Northern Lights for a few more. On Oct. 2 the Food and Drug Administration closed its investigation of…
CHP officer killed in Highway 99 crash with semi-truck on major Central Valley freight route
California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Liles died after his motorcycle collided with a truck-tractor Sunday evening. Another passing vehicle then struck the officer after the initial impact. The crash happened along State…
U.S. Bank: Contract rates open 22-cent gap over spot freight
U.S. Bank reported Thursday that contract dry van rates ended August 22 cents a mile above spot freight, two months after spot briefly priced higher than contract. The figures come from the October edition of the U.S. Bank…
UPDATE Farmer Food: How Agriculture Is Changing
Supermarket voted best grocery store in America as customers praise meal kits, variety of offerings Food is changing rapidly, and farmers are at the center of that transformation. Modern farmers are using new technology,…
Sprouting seeds recalled because of potential contamination with Salmonella, E. coli
Todd’s Seeds LLC of Cookeville, TN, is recalling 37,481 units of sprouting seeds because they may be contaminated with Salmonella and/or E. coli. The recalled seeds were sold via Amazon and direct to consumers. According to…
YMX yard technology helps retailer trace $60,000 in missing freight
YMX Logistics is using computer vision and yard-management data to help investigate missing freight, including a case where the technology helped investigators connect five shipments to a specific truck and driver. The case…
