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Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railroad is expanding its Mexico cross-border capacity with the addition of 1,000 53-foot refrigerated intermodal containers. The expansion is designed to offer more options to shippers using the company’s recently started Mexico Midwest Express (MMX) daily premium single-line intermodal rail service running between the U.S. Midwest and Mexico. MMX debuted…
Elmer Bontrager, a Kentucky-based truck driver, doesn’t mind his overly helpful big rig. But he knows it has its limits. Bontrager’s semi-truck wants to alert him whenever it seems like he’s going to mess up. The problem is, the truck isn’t always correct. A weigh station, for example, might have a stop sign where the…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has selected 12,000 miles of freight-heavy interstates and the country’s largest container ports to begin a 16-year plan to deploy battery-charging and hydrogen-refueling stations for electric trucks. The four-phase National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy, unveiled Tuesday, initially targets local and regional “return-to-base” trucking operations, first- and last-mile delivery, and port…
The six missing people who plunged into the water after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge are presumed dead. Authorities were working to recover their bodies Wednesday morning. The disaster occurred early Tuesday when the Dali, a Singapore-flagged ship, crashed into a piling around 1:30 a.m., bringing down the Baltimore bridge in seconds….
“Our ships are still chockablock full — that’s a good sign,” said Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Germany ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd, during the company’s quarterly call earlier this month. He wasn’t referring to all of the company’s ships, just those serving Latin America. Most of the world’s container trades have sunk back toward pre-COVID volumes…
Putting damage award caps in place and preventing plaintiff attorneys from appealing to the reptilian region of the brain to instill fear in jurors are just two of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s recommendations to combat nuclear verdicts. In its report released earlier this month on nuclear and smaller verdicts impacting the trucking industry, the…