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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s newly unveiled standards aimed at drastically reducing carbon emissions from heavy trucks would boost equipment costs for manufacturers, fleets and owner-operators. In a 717-page preamble to the proposed rule released on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new greenhouse gas standards for heavy trucks would begin in model year (MY) 2028…
On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about a surge of ocean imports to U.S. ports. Is it here to last or is the peak of peak season already here? With a UPS strike looming on the horizon, shippers need to scramble to secure contingency plans. Jay Silva, vice president of partnerships…
Investment firm Cowen says reciprocal switching could have a negative financial impact on the U.S. railroad industry starting around 2025, according to a new research note. But some safety initiatives in the Railway Safety Act that are making their way through Congress could have “negligible capex implications” for items such as new mandates for the…
Retail giant Walmart Inc. and packaging specialist Packsize said Monday they have collaborated on a right-sized, on-demand box machine using technology designed for Walmart’s deployment. The machine, called the Ultra5, has already been installed in the first of Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) four next-generation fulfillment centers, Packsize said. As is the case with Packsize’s legacy X5…
If the price volatility of the past few years has exhausted diesel consumers, recent weeks have been a welcome respite. The stability in the market was driven home by the Monday release of the Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average weekly retail diesel price, the basis for most fuel surcharges. The price fell 1.8 cents…
This week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 35 (Shippers) Last week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 40 (Shippers) Three-month FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 40 (Shippers) The FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data in FreightWaves SONAR to analyze the market and estimate the negotiating power for…