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3/29/2023
The duo allegedly devised a scheme to defraud freight factoring companies by submitting false bills of lading. They were indicted on one count each of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and of aiding and...
3/29/2023
As truck drivers, every minute of their move was accounted for. They ate dinner at their home in Wisconsin and left around 8:30 p.m. At 11 p.m., the Schmitts arrived in the tiny town of Gaylord, Minne...
3/29/2023
“What that could mean, of course, is that you’ve got less operational revolving credit, or that you can’t hire as many people as you’d like, [or] you can’t renew your fle...
3/29/2023
Bulk Insurance Group by BulkLoads.com is the industry leader in bulk insurance for owner-operators and trucking companies. We know this industry, how you operate, and who your customers are. We are co...
3/28/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has denied a rulemaking petition by the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) to remove a requirement that freight brokers disclose to carrier...
3/28/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Tom Beenken with Continental Western Group to talk about insurance premiums! Tom has been in the insurance industry for close to 40 years and is very knowledgeable i...
3/28/2023
William White was sentenced to one year and one day imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Sarah White was sentenced to three years of probation and a fine of $10,000. Each...
3/27/2023
More than 100 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters joined Assembly member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, a Democrat from Winters, earlier this year as she announced new legislation to require ...
3/27/2023
Some 455 truck drivers without jobs after owners failed to pay them for weeks...
3/25/2023
In 1980, the four biggest railroads originated 53% of all grain and oilseed traffic. By 2011, they accounted for 86%....
3/25/2023
Signees said SHIP IT would provide meaningful solutions to address the need for more truck drivers, truck parking, productivity, environmental efficiency, options during emergencies, and flexibility f...
3/24/2023
"One out of every seven trucks you see on the road in the United States today is operated by an independent contractor," said TIE Executive Director Scott Brenner. "Our association is committed to ens...
3/23/2023
The latest version of House Bill 189 would allow trucks hauling forestry and agricultural products to carry heavier loads until July 1, 2024. That would give lawmakers time to strike a compromise that...
3/21/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Lance Albin with UMB Bank to discuss finance and agriculture! During this show, they discuss hot topics such as current interest rates, Lance also shares his persona...
3/20/2023
Massive flooding is preventing workers from harvesting lettuce, strawberries and other plants right now, particularly in central California. Workers have also been unable to plant crops like tomatoes,...
3/20/2023
In the first half of 2022, buyers and sellers enjoyed a robust period of dealmaking. In the second half of the year, though, M&A activity dropped off. Despite that, the fundamental factors that ha...
3/20/2023
The debate over “agricultural pollution” is turning into a polarizing political issue in both Europe and the United States. And I worry the farmers may lose the fight....
3/18/2023
The Iowa House has still not voted on the bill as of Thursday, which would send it to Governor Kim Reynolds’ (R) desk. The bill would limit noneconomic damages like pain, suffering and loss of c...
3/18/2023
Critical rendered ingredients, such as those used for pet food and animal feed, travel by truck transportation and a disruption of the trucking industry could mean the delay of ingredients for these p...
3/18/2023
Employees were notified of the closure through a video message according to FreightWaves, which explained that the company’s major customers had demanded major rate and volume concessions. One c...
3/17/2023
Maverick is just one example of the trucking fleets that have struggled with not being able to get new trucks in the past couple of years. The COVID-19 pandemic upended manufacturing and caused massiv...
3/17/2023
Based on a recommendation by the Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Plan and Agreement, which oversees and collects the fees for the 41 states participating in it, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Adm...
3/16/2023
According to the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General, an investigation revealed that from around 2015 until October 2017, Castillo led a double-broker scheme in which he s...
3/16/2023
The revolving equity in a cooperative is, in essence, profits that are distributed to the member but temporarily lent back to the cooperative to fund investment....
3/16/2023
Feed industry representatives are among those backing a new bill related to supply chain infrastructure in the US....
3/16/2023
Scoular announced today that it will recommission the former sunflower crush plant outside of Goodland that it purchased in 2021. The Nebraska-based agribusiness will make an investment to retrofit th...
3/15/2023
A California bill that would require human drivers inside robotic trucks will force Democratic lawmakers to choose between their labor allies and Silicon Valley over how to regulate the emerging auton...
3/15/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Steve Morgan with Poole Chemical to discuss fertilizer. Steve has been on our show many times before, we wanted to have him back on to discuss current market conditi...
3/15/2023
Kendra Brown has long dreamed of starting her own trucking business. “I’ve had it on my vision board for many years,” Brown told North Carolina Education Lottery officials in a March...
3/14/2023
Missouri-based trucking company Rapid Response has been sold to its employees under an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Investment banking firm ButcherJoseph & Co., which advised Rapid Respon...
3/13/2023
Farm industry experts don't believe the sector will see as many transportation-related challenges this year compared to 2022....
3/11/2023
The board of directors of Mid-Iowa Cooperative (MIC) said it has approved the sale of the cooperative’s shares in Shell Rock Soy Processing, LLC (SRSP). MIC did not disclose who is buying the sh...
3/11/2023
A group of transportation and trucking stakeholders calling on Congress to repeal a World War I-era tax on heavy-duty trucks says the measure disproportionately burdens small businesses and dampens...
3/11/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Tuesday announced it is extending the comment period for a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) offering rules to change broker and freight forwarder...
3/10/2023
In this episode, Jared Flinn brings on Caleb Kindle and Austin Holt to discuss a platform on BulkLoads that increases efficiency within the bulk industry. They discuss how this benefits each party a...
3/10/2023
FMCSA, which will host the session March 31 at the Mid America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky, wants to hear comments on two matters: interim guidance issued in November on the agency&rs...
3/9/2023
Over 200 of trucking company’s employees, including 140 drivers, losing jobs...
3/9/2023
The Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI) registered a reading of 36.1 for transportation costs in February, 5.9 percentage points lower than in January and below the prior record, which was establish...
3/8/2023
The owner of M&D Trucking of Lincoln told police there were irregularities in payroll and fuel card purchases by one of his employees. Bradley Brown, 43, from Ackworth, Iowa allegedly embezzled $3...
3/8/2023
Allowing truck drivers 18-20 years old to drive interstate cargo — a plan strongly supported by the Biden administration and the American Trucking Associations and seen as a way to address a dri...
3/8/2023
Freight factoring company, Smart Freight Funding, helps trucking companies of all sizes keep their trucks moving by getting paid quicker. Smart Freight Funding works with single truck operations, indi...
3/7/2023
David Gleason with Gleason Custom Hauling talks about growing his fleet and using BulkLoads.com....
3/7/2023
Robert Palm, a 43-year trucking veteran and founder of Truckers Final Mile, says he’s heard just about every excuse in the book why some executives of small carriers and mega fleets can’t ...
3/6/2023
Insurance rates for grain elevator facilities have increased substantially in the past year, and some facilities have lost their insurance altogether because companies have deemed grain elevators a hi...
3/6/2023
Known by many as “Granny Glitter” or “Grandma Candy,” the 78-year-old Bass is still actively driving longhaul across the country. A company driver for Burnsville, Minn.-based T...
3/4/2023
(Australia) Had you told Australian Trucking Association CEO David Smith five years ago that he'd be parking his own trucks because of a lack of quality drivers, he admits he'd have laughed....
3/3/2023
Gavilon has rebranded itself as Viterra. The new name and a new logo is being rolled out across the United States and Mexico. Omaha will remain the company’s headquarters for the U.S. and Mexico...
3/3/2023
With little indication of a freight market turnaround showing up in any data set, two FreightWaves executives who also wear the hat of market experts faced a question during their most recent “S...
3/2/2023
The American Transportation Research Institute wants carriers to weigh in on whether federal drug testing policies for CDL holders should change, given the growing number of states legalizing marijuan...
3/1/2023
Vickie Greiner, 62, and her son, Brandon Greiner, 34, both of Fairmont, Minnesota, worked at Commodity Services Inc., which is headquartered in Fairmont but has a second office in Orlando, Florida....
3/1/2023
Husband-wife team Chris and Ruth Smith didn’t take the most traditional path to becoming owner-operators, today leased to aviation engine-hauling Southern Pride Trucking, but their unconventiona...
3/1/2023
The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for January, at 117.1 (2015=100), saw a 0.7% gain, from December to January, following a 1% December gain, to 116.2, ove...
2/28/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Drew Easton, Executive Vice President of AmWINS. Larry Hurt, CEO of Bulk Insurance Group, also joins them to bring his team's insight. During this episode, they dive ...
2/27/2023
2022 started off well enough in trucking. Spot rates were decent, historically speaking. Operating costs were elevated, but reasonable. Yet by the end of the year, things had flipped. Rates were way d...
2/27/2023
Steam Logistics is offering employees $2,000 to quit the company, avoiding the costs of layoffs even as it continues hiring new workers for its U.S. network....
2/27/2023
Momentum. As much as anything else, that’’s what the idea of zero-emission trucks has going for it. Sometimes it seems like the bandwagon to beat all bandwagons. But there may be options y...
2/27/2023
Considering exits are just now starting to outpace entrants, according to recent Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data, 25% may be a smidge low after a year of new authorizations. How long ...
2/25/2023
Iowans injured or killed in crashes with trucks and other large vehicles would face new limits on how much money they could receive in lawsuits, under a bill passed by the Iowa Senate....
2/25/2023
Denny Whalen of Austin, Minnesota, experienced those issues when working with a farmer. “I knew there had to be a better way of knowing how much the truck weighed and how many bushels were being...
2/24/2023
Shipments declined by 3.2% in January from December levels, but no more than they usually do, according to the latest Cass Freight Index for Shipments, part of a monthly report issued by Cass Informat...
2/24/2023
A freight broker is the intermediary between a carrier (or transportation provider, like a truck driver) and a shipper (whoever is trying to move goods, like a retailer or manufacturer). There are als...
2/24/2023
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On Feb. 8-9, members of the bulk loads freight industry gathered at the Bass Pro Shops White River Conference Center to share ideas, discuss issues and learn new strategies un...
2/23/2023
Just before 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, February 21, 2023, reports of crash involving a tractor-trailer along MO-171 near Redbud Road alerted Jasper County E-911....
2/23/2023
Electronic log book laws have been put in place, effective January 1, 2023, in effort to increase safety on the roads, which of course is the number one priority, however, there are some unintended co...
2/23/2023
BOOTH 65120 in the WEST Wing!
We loved meeting our members last year at MATS, we can't wait for this year!
BulkLoads will be there along with our sister companies, Smart Freight Funding, and Bulk ...
2/22/2023
Jared brings on St John (pronounced "Sinjin") Craner to talk about sales in the agriculture industry. St John is the founder of Agrarian, a company specializing in training and teaching sales teams ho...
2/22/2023
As the transportation industry falls back to Earth amid lower post-pandemic freight volumes, one quieter factor hurting bottom lines for trucking companies is the rising cost of liability insurance &m...
2/22/2023
The only thing predictable with the freight market today seems to be its unpredictability. Before COVID-19, there was some ability to foresee highs and lows in freight volume based on seasonality and ...
2/21/2023
The federal government projects truck crash-related deaths to increase 10% in 2022, according to the most recent data, and is a primary reason why safety advocates support a proposal that would limit ...
2/21/2023
We know this because Labor set up a ‘safe rates’ scheme in 2012, but it wasn’t until 2016 that the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) started dictating trucking rates. It was a...
2/20/2023
As a result, truck drivers hauling gasoline, diesel and jet fuel into Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming in direct support of the emergency are exempt from Part ...
2/20/2023
Iowa lawmakers are considering legislation aimed at providing liability protection for trucking companies with drivers who cause accidents on the job....
2/18/2023
Truck detention, where drivers must sit idle while waiting for their trucks to be loaded, is an almost universal challenge in the industry. According to a 2020 survey, 87% of truck drivers spend 17 to...
2/17/2023
A bill that would raise the speed limit for trucks on certain Indiana roadways advanced to the full Senate Tuesday despite opposition from the state’s largest truck drivers group....
2/16/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to change the way it evaluates trucking company safety by upgrading its current ranking model as opposed to installing a new one. In a notice to ...
2/15/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Chris Burroughs. Chris is the Vice President of Government Affairs for the TIA (Transportation Intermediaries Association). Jared and Chris discuss double brokering ve...
2/14/2023
If passed, the bill would require shippers and brokers to use carriers that are not deemed unfit to operate safely under current federal regulations, whether that means having an Unsatisfactory rating...
2/13/2023
The Freight Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters says it is preparing for upcoming national negotiations on new collective bargaining agreements covering more than 15,000 Teamsters a...
2/13/2023
The leading trade group representing the brokerage industry is diving anew into the double-brokering issue. In a white paper recently distributed to its members, the Transportation Intermediaries Asso...
2/11/2023
The move comes four months after global investment firm KKR & Co. acquired a majority stake in one of the companies....
2/11/2023
U.S. farmers are planning to boost corn acreage in 2023, eyeing lower prices of fertilizer needed to grow the crop and hoping for a bumper crop after a late season drought withered last year’s g...
2/10/2023
Long gone are the robust days of 25% outbound tender rejects (OTRI). Now carriers are taking any and all contracted freight that’s coming their way as OTRI has fallen back to earth like a Chines...
2/10/2023
So what does that mean for freight and rates? We’ll have the details on that and more in today’s Market update....
2/9/2023
Negligence claims arising from motor carrier collisions have typically focused on the driver, owner and/or operator of the subject vehicle involved in the accident. This traditional model allowed frei...
2/8/2023
U.S. farmers are planning to boost corn acreage in 2023, eyeing lower prices of fertilizer needed to grow the crop and hoping for a bumper crop after a late season drought withered last year's grain h...
2/8/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Niko Anderson, Co-Founder of Aventine Ridge Partners. Niko's company is looking to acquire and operate a single, high-quality business. Jared and Niko walk through the...
2/7/2023
Between 30 and 40 employees that oversee the power co-generation plant at the central Illinois site are on strike and the company has brought in replacement workers, the union said....
2/6/2023
Banghart Properties LLC faces maximum civil fines totaling $70,000 for purchasing hundreds of truckloads more than the $5 million that a Class B license annually permits, as well as lifetime grain-lic...
2/6/2023
Cargill has closed its grain elevator at Burns Harbor in Portage as of Jan. 31, saying a variety of current and expected market conditions led to the decision to not renew its lease....
2/4/2023
FedEx will cut more than 10% of its management staff as the delivery giant contends with sinking demand, President and CEO Raj Subramaniam said in a message to staff Wednesday....
2/2/2023
Road safety, however, was a real issue. For decades, regulators had debated the introduction of electronic logs—tamper-proof devices, hardwired to trucks’ engines, that could digitally tra...
2/2/2023
The bill would exempt businesses from paying damages in cases where their employee was found negligent in a trucking accident. Kellie Paschke, a lobbyist for the Iowa Association for Justice which rep...
2/1/2023
There's a quite simple design behind the one-truck owner-operator business of Minnesota-based Kelvin Schmidt. "I've been doing this myself with my own authority since 2011," Schmidt said. The key to h...
1/31/2023
In this episode, Jared brings on Zach Strickland with FreightWaves! Zach is a Market Analyst and has a wealth of knowledge on the freight market and economy. In this episode, Zach covers the state of ...
1/31/2023
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has much bigger potential than Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) for regional and long-haul trucking, according to Lars Mårtensson, Director of Environment & Innovatio...
1/30/2023
Investigators say Nolan DeWall allowed 800 pigs to starve or freeze to death on his Iowa farm...
1/28/2023
To track my cows, that's all online. My feed program is online, with my feed truck and scales and all in the cloud,” he said....
1/28/2023
Three states issue hours waivers over propane shortages Governors in Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming each recently issued emergency declarations related to propane shortages, waiving hours of service...
1/28/2023
Total drug violations reported into the clearinghouse in 2022, including positive tests and refusals to take a drug test, increased 18% to 69,668 compared with last year’s 59,011, according to t...
1/27/2023
In the last two years, trucking companies have had to answer a wide range of questions about how they operate — from mask mandates and driver protections to information about zero contact delive...
1/27/2023
While it may seem like all folks inside the Beltway do is belch noisome mandates and burdensome regulations at the trucking industry, at least one federal agency is working to help the industry beat b...
1/27/2023
The Safer Highways and Increased Performance for Interstate Trucking (SHIP IT) Act was introduced on January 24 by U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Jim Costa (D-CA)....
1/25/2023
After leaking for several months, the air is nearly evacuated from the used truck pricing bubble as increased production of new trucks allows fleets to finally trade their aging iron....
1/25/2023
According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers earned, on average, $50,340 in 2021. The wage decrease is dizzying, considering how essential ...
1/24/2023
Heavy duty trucks account for just 1% of the vehicles on our roads, yet they generate 25% of global road emissions. Transitioning these super-polluters to green alternatives could have a huge impact o...
1/23/2023
Elevators and other companies who purchase facility insurance specific to commercial agriculture are “feeling a lot of pain” because of sudden, unexpected increases in insurance costs, ins...
1/23/2023
Under current federal law, picking up freight from a port is considered interstate transportation, even if the freight stays within the state where the port is located. This, of course, means 18- to 2...
1/21/2023
What kind of fire takes 7.5 million gallons of water to get under control — and keeps burning? One fueled by 3 million bushels of corn....
1/21/2023
Tiffany stumbled upon Jeremy Wallin, an owner-operator and a driver of more than 30 years, as a profile photo in Facebook's "People You May Know" tab....
1/20/2023
Toledo Fire & Rescue responded to the Anderson's plant at 440 Kuhlman Road in south Toledo Tuesday regarding a medical call. According to a Toledo police report, TFRD arrived at the scene at appro...
1/20/2023
For a long time, being a long haul trucker was a path to a middle class life. But in the last few decades, the trucking business has transformed. It's gotten faster. And cheaper. And...way harder on i...
1/19/2023
The trucking industry lost more carriers in December than any month since Hurricane Katrina disrupted much of the over-the-road freight industry, according to data from FTR Transportation Intelligence...
1/18/2023
Fifty-four year old Texas resident and former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) border investigator Patrick Gorena pleaded guilty to a charge of extortion under color of law, accordi...
1/17/2023
Two men from southern Minnesota’s Cottonwood County have been charged in a federal superseding indictment with conspiring to defraud grain purchasers out of more than $46 million by passing off ...
1/17/2023
Fly ash, also known as pulverized fuel ash, is a very fine powder with spherical particles smaller than 50 microns that are supplied to the chimney by an electrostatic precipitator or other particulat...
1/16/2023
A Virginia truck driver became a millionaire thanks to his desire for a barbeque sandwich. Tim Allen told the Virginia Lottery he stopped at Mills Grill and Grocery near Danville, Virginia. While ther...
1/14/2023
Millions of chickens have gone unfed as rail disruptions delay corn shipments to a California poultry farm, according to documents that provide unique details of how one shipper has suffered from poor...
1/14/2023
The Ceasing Age-Based (CAB) Trucking Restrictions Act was introduced this week by U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., with 19 co-sponsors, all Republican. It is identical to a bill Mast introduced in late 2...
1/14/2023
A flurry of executive-level personnel changes in the trucking industry in recent months exceeded recruiter Jon Fricke’s expectations, particularly amid declining demand. The moves have come acro...
1/13/2023
When you use Smart Freight, you work with a team that specializes and knows bulk freight trucking more than any other company. It is all we do. Also there are no setup costs, no contracts or commitmen...
1/12/2023
Tickets for the first-ever Bulk Freight Conference are going fast and they are almost sold out.
BulkLoads is hosting the first-ever bulk freight transportation conference on February 8-9, 2023 prese...
1/11/2023
Investors are profiting from legal claims by “investing” in cases involving other people or “loaning” pending plaintiffs advances on damages. Either way, the purpose is to real...
1/11/2023
Fines for violations of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations are increasing.
In a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 6, the FMCSA announced the new civil ...
1/10/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has increased the fine amount for trucking violations to reflect inflation.
On January 6, 2023, the FMCSA published a Final Rule increasing the...
1/8/2023
Bulk Insurance Group by BulkLoads.com is the industry leader in bulk insurance for owner-operators and trucking companies. We know this industry, how you operate, and who your customers are. We are co...
1/7/2023
BulkLoads is hosting the first-ever bulk freight transportation conference on February 8-9, 2023 presented by Konexial!
Get tickets here!
This is an exclusive event hosted by us for our members and ...
1/6/2023
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Scams are everywhere these days — from e-mails to phone calls and text messages, hackers and thieves will stop at nothing to try and gain access to financial and other ...
1/6/2023
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - When the interstates shut down, truckers travelling through the area were left with nowhere to go and traffic issues in northern Sioux Falls ensued.
After the par...
1/5/2023
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing more oversight of truck brokers and freight forwarders and the surety bond and trust companies that back them up in an effort to ease the m...
1/4/2023
A new law prohibiting the parking of large trucks on personal property has gone into effect this month, leaving truckers living in the area at a loss for what to do.
The new law went into effect on Ja...
1/4/2023
Jared brings on Ben Hubbard with Integrated Proteins to talk bulk hauling and pets! Ben brings up several interesting points, did you know the US pet population is growing faster than the US human pop...
1/3/2023
Paccar is recalling about 2,565 model year 2022-2023 Peterbilt 579 trucks for an issue with the hood mirrors, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration documents.
According to the r...
1/3/2023
Almost 15 years ago, California’s Air Resources Board, known as “CARB”, passed a set of clean air regulations with assigned dates for implementation. Of those emissions rulings, the ...
1/2/2023
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — Thirteen bison were killed or had to be euthanized after their herd was struck by a semi-truck involved in an accident with two other vehicles on a dark Montana highway...
1/1/2023
A group of pro-Russia hackers claim to have breached the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) online portal, but the agency says that their internal systems have not been compro...
1/1/2023
Are there things you wish you could change in the trucking industry? Do you sometimes feel as if you’re the only one frustrated by some particular issue?
Chances are many others feel the same w...
12/31/2022
Just before noon on Thursday, December 29, 2022, reports of a tractor trailer hauling grain crashing off MO-126 near State Route M in western Barton County alerted the Missouri State Highway Patrol. T...
12/31/2022
The spending budget for the federal government’s fiscal 2023 includes an increase in funding for the Department of Transportation that is higher than the level requested by the White House.
The ...
12/30/2022
A semi truck careened off of Interstate 10 in Tucson on Tuesday after the driver passed out at the wheel.
The accident happened on December 27th in Tucson, Arizona on Interstate 10 near Valencia Road....
12/29/2022
US shippers of grain, food and other products expect to face better prospects for logistics in 2023, hoping much of the COVID-induced issues are in the past as well as a nationwide strike by railroad ...
12/27/2022
U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse says livestock haulers have different needs than other truckers because of the live cargo they’re carrying …...
12/27/2022
The Illinois Farm Bureau has significantly increased funds earmarked for commercial drivers license scholarships in 2023 to $100,000. President Rich Guebert tells Brownfield their members have been wi...
12/27/2022
But compared to the “trucking bloodbath” of 2019, the industry hasn’t seen a wave of large firms declaring bankruptcy. Trucking companies, instead, seem keen on expanding. Hiring act...
12/26/2022
When Carl Johnson founded City Dray Line in 1920, the Prohibition era had just begun, Warren G. Harding was elected president, and car production was starting to ramp up to meet the demands of middle-...
12/26/2022
Our rundown of OOIDA’s biggest accomplishments in celebration of the Association’s 50th anniversary continues with a look at hours of service. Through an onslaught of proposal and rulemaki...
12/24/2022
Lance Lillibridge, a farmer in east central Iowa, knows farming’s ups and downs. He has been in this business since he was "knee-high to a grasshopper" and is the first of a family of farmers to...
12/24/2022
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data shows the number of monthly net operating authority revocations in 2021 surpassed the most recent pre-pandemic peak in 2021. The current figure is roug...
12/23/2022
The Atlantic Grains Council, Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Grain Growers of Quebec, and Ontario Bean Growers are calling on the federal government to send the esti...
12/23/2022
The $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, is an “omnibus” spending bill that combines 12 appropriations packages, including $106 billion to fund the U.S. Department of Trans...
12/23/2022
One of the biggest problems in trucking is the way some shippers, receivers, brokers and others coerce truckers into situations where they end up violating the regulations. Of course, if things go sou...
12/22/2022
Heads of some publicly traded companies, including U.S. Xpress and Werner, suggested that smaller carriers could falter given market challenges. CEOs noted issues such as lower spot rates along with h...
12/21/2022
Firefighters were battling a fire at The Andersons Inc. Hemlock elevator and storage facility, 485 S. Hemlock Road, for more than 13 hours that began Sunday night. According to Richland Township Fire ...
12/21/2022
In addition, continuing discussion about a coming recession isn’t inspiring confidence. On Dec. 14, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the seventh time in 2022, this time...
12/21/2022
Several trucking companies, logistics firms and cold storage providers are collectively owed millions of dollars after an Iowa-based frozen meat importer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection rec...
12/20/2022
In August 1997, the Teamsters walked off the job at UPS Inc. in the first non-wildcat strike in the relationship’s long history. With an all-Teamsters labor force and no plans to call in replace...
12/19/2022
And maintaining a truck is an expensive endeavor. And the stress of doing that is made all the worse by the economics of trucking right now, with low rates and high fuel costs, among other factors. An...
12/19/2022
"We have closed a few origination facilities in North Dakota due to travel concerns in the area," the spokesperson said, including "a few grain elevators and a few edible bean facilities."...
12/17/2022
When I first met Missouri-based Jared Flinn, operating partner of the BulkLoads.com load board specializing in bulk freight, that business was at the two-guys-in-a-basement stage, following Flinn&rsqu...
12/17/2022
New-truck, maintenance costs could sideline fleets, harm economy, industry warns...
12/15/2022
Earlier emergency orders have been extended in Georgia for supply chain and oversize permits and in Nebraska for driving hours hauling fuel. Citing the ongoing need for relief due to regional fuel sho...
12/13/2022
A historic drought on the river has shuttered the critical node of barge transportation, leaving farmers and other shippers searching for alternative options to get their goods to port before winter. ...
12/12/2022
On Feb. 27, 1992, Stella Liebeck ordered a 49 cent cup of coffee from a McDonald’s drive-thru in Albuquerque, New Mexico. What happened next forever changed trial jury awards and has had a lasti...
12/12/2022
Grain contracts and the problems many farmers had during last year’s drought were discussed during a panel discussion at the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) annual gene...
12/12/2022
Water shortages, supply chain issues, inflation create challenges, almond industry leaders say....
12/10/2022
An explosion and fire at an agricultural plant Thursday in eastern Iowa has caused injuries and an evacuation of people near the operation. The explosion and fire happened about 11:15 a.m. in Marengo ...
12/10/2022
The Biden administration has released $36 billion in bailout money for the Central States Pension Fund (CSPF) that will go toward protecting the pensions of over 350,000 workers, including drivers who...
12/9/2022
The sudden closure of a furniture company has left an Alabama trucking company – as well as many others – waiting to reclaim their property....
12/9/2022
Relief would apply only to daily and weekly hour-of-service limits...
12/8/2022
John R. Coleman, 46, of Greenwood, Mississippi, is the former CEO of Express Grain Terminals, LLC....
12/6/2022
President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law a resolution intended to avert a freight rail strike, based on an agreement reached between some rail unions and freight rail companies....
12/5/2022
It’s not just Snowman's classic black-and-gold throwback paint scheme from Smokey & the Bandit on owner-operator John McCormick's beautiful rig that’s all behind the name. The owner-op...
12/5/2022
Staying in the agricultural hauling business means meeting weight regulations. Blue Ink Tech, a leader in trucking technology, has released the most recent addition to its BIT Full Service Platform: t...
12/2/2022
Another driver requests exemption from parts of HOS regs For the third time this year, a truck operator is seeking an exemption from certain provisions in the hours-of-service regulations. Owner-opera...
12/1/2022
Arizona authorities seized $39,500 in cash from Johnson in August 2020. The money, according to Johnson, was to buy a used truck at auction. But police thought he had transported it on a flight from N...
11/30/2022
Each insurance company has what you might call an appetite. If we do not fit into an insurance company’s appetite, they won’t provide us insurance. For example, Progressive is not able to ...
11/30/2022
A handful of farm groups have been rejected in their effort to exempt truckers hauling live animals from federal mandates limiting the hours a driver can be on the job....
11/30/2022
Cargill and Owensboro Grain Company, a fifth-generation family-owned soybean processing facility and refinery located in Owensboro, Ky., announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement wh...
11/30/2022
Technology companies supplying critical semiconductor chips to the economy have started shifting cargo shipments from railroads to trucks with a national freight rail strike looming. The moves are bei...
11/30/2022
Family-owned Mid Continent Trucking of Denison, Iowa, notified drivers and employees recently that after 24 years, the refrigerated carrier was ceasing operations two days after Thanksgiving because o...
11/28/2022
A Missouri requirement is costing the trucking industry time and money. The federal government requires truckers to get physicals every two years. Brent Witte, with Witte Brothers Exchange in Troy, sa...
11/28/2022
Freight demand has declined due to persistently high inflation, labour shortages and overstocked shelves....
11/28/2022
Representing strength and endurance, the Mack truck was born in 1900 with the first vehicle by “Jack” Mack and family at the Mack Brothers Company in Brooklyn, N.Y. Except it was a bus. An...
11/26/2022
For years we've been hearing about a persistent shortage of truck drivers. But what if we're thinking about it wrong? What if the issue is that the shipping industry systematically mistreats or underv...
11/25/2022
A proposal meant to revolutionize roadside inspection by requiring fleets and owner-operators to equip their trucks with a new electronic identification system was roundly rejected by much of the truc...
11/25/2022
Isaac Instruments is one of Canada’s largest providers of “trucking telematics.” Isaac is also making a push into the U.S. market. The company’s core offering is a tablet that ...
11/24/2022
“Union leaders said Monday they believed that a compromise could still be reached to avoid a work stoppage that could disrupt the flow of goods around the U.S. Four out of 12 unions have now rej...
11/23/2022
Ocean shipping demand is traditionally measured in “ton-miles”: volumes multiplied by distance. So, here’s a paradox: Ton-miles for liquefied natural gas shipping have fallen in 2022...
11/23/2022
We are laser focused on providing the most affordable coverage for bulk freight haulers. We have live and breathed both sides of the business and are passionate about giving our clients the attention...
11/21/2022
Among them was a representative from The Truckload Carriers Association, who wrote that ELDs “should be required on as many trucks as possible, including rebuilt or remanufactured engines or gli...
11/21/2022
A slowing economy and deteriorating freight conditions are already “baked in the cake,” according to Mullen Group senior executive officer Murray Mullen. But it’s small operators who...
11/21/2022
CHS Co-op and ADM along the Mississippi River front in Winona were very busy this past week at the peak of the 2022 harvest. Barges were being loaded and grain trucks were unloading....
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