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Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Rhode Island Tolling Plan
Attorneys for American Trucking Associations and the Rhode Island Department of Transportation sparred before a federal appeals court over the state’s trucks-only tolling plan.
What We Lost in the Lahaina Fire
Lille Allen/Eater The fire razed Maui’s densest dining town, destroying the century-old Nagasako Okazuya Deli, Maui’s oldest dive bar, the pickle mango stand on Front Street, and so much more Throughout its centuries-long…
FTR’s Starks: Trailer Production to Trend Lower Through 2024
Production of trailers in the United States is set to decline for five consecutive quarters before increasing in the final three months of 2024, according to one expert.
Diesel Issues Could Worsen Due to Lack of Crude From OPEC+
The diesel market is pricing in a crisis, one that could get soon get even worse because of a lack of the type of crude that’s good for making the fuel.
Not much good news for diesel consumers in latest key oil report
There wasn’t much good news for oil — and specifically diesel — consumers in the latest monthly report of the International Energy Agency released Wednesday. With few major revisions in supply and demand estimates from its…
Truckload carriers see market moving toward equilibrium
A couple of truckload carriers said the bottom of the cycle has likely occurred but acknowledged that any material positive inflection in fundamentals won’t happen until sometime in 2024. That likely means a “muted peak…
New border control regime poses biosecurity risk
Farmers Weekly Industry figures have warned the government’s new food border control regime poses a biosecurity risk. While the UK was a member of the EU, it relied upon a team of European assessors who were regularly…
Union Pacific’s New CEO Won’t Rule Out Cuts
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific’s new CEO, Jim Vena, says he won’t shy away from cuts, but no one should expect the kind of sweeping changes he made when he first oversaw operations a few years ago.
UAW May Consider Strikes at Small Number of Factories
DETROIT — Leaders of the United Auto Workers union are considering targeted strikes at a small number of factories if they can’t reach contract agreements by a Thursday night deadline.
Kent farmer donates entire orchard to London charity
Farmers Weekly A farmer from Kent has donated an entire orchard’s worth of produce to London-based charity The Felix Project, which will be distributing the fruit across the capital’s schools and communities that need it…
