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Florida ports are preparing for Hurricane Helene, which is expected to make landfall in the state on Thursday and bring life-threatening conditions with it. The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday upgraded Helene from a tropical storm to a hurricane. A large portion of Florida and the Southeast are expected to see flooding, strong winds and…
The car carrier Grande Costa d’Avorio continued to burn on Friday alongside the pier in Newark, New Jersey. As firefighters doused the top decks with water, gas tanks of automobiles parked inside continued to periodically explode. “The projected timeline at this point is that the fire is going to burn for a couple more days,”…
UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union will resume national bargaining June 5 as both sides spend the week negotiating the final two supplemental agreements covering workers in Louisville, Kentucky, and Northern California. The hiatus comes as both sides reached a tentative agreement to reduce the size of UPS SurePost packages eligible for handoff to the…
Heartland Express reported a net loss for the second quarter on Tuesday, pointing to weak freight demand, excess capacity and higher expenses as the culprits. The North Liberty, Iowa-based truckload carrier reported a $3.5 million net loss, or 4 cents per share. That was slightly better than the consensus estimate for a 5-cent-per-share loss but…
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Exports of Mexican-built cargo trucks up 34% in May; a California commercial border crossing project receives $140 million; Mexico opens a $175 million highway project to boost trade with Texas; and a U.S. logistics firm is…
A former Missouri mayor and fleet dispatcher was sentenced to federal prison for a scheme in which he stole nearly $300,000 from more than 500 truck drivers who worked for his employer. Corey Louis Hendrickson, 46, a former mayor and alderman of Willard, a small city that is part of the Springfield metro area, was…