The Port of Los Angeles’ January import numbers highlight that the inventory glut of 2022 and early 2023 is largely in the rearview mirror. The port experienced the second-best January on record, surpassed only by January 2022, which was fueled by pandemic-related spending. The port handled 855,652 total TEUs during January, eclipsing last year’s mark…
Former President Donald Trump is lashing out at President Joe Biden ahead of Biden’s scheduled trip to East Palestine, Ohio, this week, saying the current president waited too long to visit the site of the February 2023 train derailment. “Biden should have gone there a long time ago — for him to go now is…
Two owners of a Utah trucking group were recently convicted for their roles in an elaborate, 10-year pay-to-play fraud scheme that siphoned more than $108 million from FedEx Ground. On Feb. 2, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah convicted Yevgeny Felix Tuchinsky, 63, and Konstantin Mikhaylovich Tomlin, 54,…
Long-standing practices for feeding chassis into intermodal markets have been dealt another blow in legal proceedings before the Federal Maritime Commission. In a 4-1 vote Tuesday, the FMC upheld an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) ruling from just over a year ago that the current system of major oceangoing carriers designating exclusive chassis providers for port-to-port…
The labor market for truck drivers could be easing, the latest report from Trucking HR Canada (THRC) reveals. Between the third quarter of 2022 and Q3 2023, the number of […]