A broad coalition of almost 30 U.S. and Mexican trade stakeholders is urging Presidents Joe Biden and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to address migrant issues they said are impacting cross-border trade. Led by the Washington-based Border Trade Alliance, the Texas Association of Business and the Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico (CONCAMIN), the coalition on…
The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it will hold a board meeting next month to vote on proposed findings and safety recommendations resulting from its investigation into the near-collision of a FedEx Express with a commercial passenger jet in Texas last year. The announcement came shortly after the agency sent a team of experts…
Peloton has filed a Federal Maritime Commission complaint against Flexport, alleging that Flexport’s practices cost the fitness company millions of dollars in unreasonable charges. The complaint, filed this month, accuses digital freight forwarder Flexport of “wrongfully and unreasonably requiring Peloton to pay millions of dollars in unreasonable demurrage and detention charges.” Peloton used the company…
Global freight solutions provider Cass Information Systems Inc. has launched Amplify by Cass, an addition to the Cass Financial Suite that helps enterprises and their freight carriers improve working capital levels. According to a press release announcing the Wednesday launch, Amplify by Cass bridges the gap between a shipper’s efficiencies and desire to increase working…
Lorus Byers, CEO of Carrier Intelligence, sat down with Taking the Hire Road host Jeremy Reymer to discuss the driver recruiting and retention strategies that Carrier Intelligence uses to stand out. Byers spent his early freight career with C.H. Robinson in capacity and load tendering. Eventually, he found that many carriers didn’t necessarily lack loads,…