On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is catching up with Harbor Trucking Association CEO Matt Schrap. Schrap is clapping back against new CARB regulations that aim to radically change trucking in the next decade. Are clean air timelines realistic and can providers meet them? Junction Collaborative Transports’ Ian Weiland shares his perspective on…
BNSF’s net profit for the first quarter of 2023 slipped 9% amid a 10% drop in carload volumes, the railroad’s parent company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), reported Saturday. Net income was nearly $1.25 billion in the first quarter, compared with $1.37 billion year over year. Total revenues were $6 billion, up 1% from $5.97 billion…
WASHINGTON — Adding flexibility to truck driver hours-of-service regulations in 2020 may have reduced road safety, based on data compiled by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. FMCSA compared HOS inspection and large-truck crash data from two years before the revisions went into effect on Sept. 29, 2020, and a year after the effective date….
The Biden administration announced vaccine requirements for truck drivers based in Canada and Mexico will end Friday, a move that could allow thousands of truckers to resume cross-border freight movements. The U.S. border vaccine mandate for foreign drivers began in January 2022. Canada ended its own border vaccination requirements in October. The U.S. Department of…
What a difference a year makes. Cargo and container volumes have been sliding at the Port of Vancouver since late 2022, following months of backlogs and congestion, and the truckers […]