A Dallas jury looked beyond a Satisfactory federal carrier rating and found both negligent selection and vicarious control. The unresolved verdict now tests how brokers, shippers and tank operations document carrier vetting, dispatch boundaries and live safety exceptions.
After exporting its first commissioning cargo, ECA LNG found compressor damage during a planned shutdown. The resulting delay separates a successful test shipment from reliable commercial operation.
One proposal would screen suspicious USDOT applications for links to prior carriers. Another would establish a federal offense for deliberately causing or arranging collisions with commercial vehicles.
NRC’s proposed fivefold radiation limit could reduce shielding on certain transportable reactor packages, but DOT permits, Level VI inspections, route plans and specialized carrier controls would remain.
Final FMCSA rules effective July 22 narrow three recurring paperwork duties, but they do not erase the cab packet, employer notices or inspection retention.
CN’s Midwest access agreement and a July 27 supplemental filing add real competition and service safeguards to the proposed transcontinental railroad—but the protections are narrower for hazardous-material, contract and unit-train traffic than the headline suggests.
Federal investigators traced the 2024 Bio-Lab disaster to a corroded sprinkler, excess oxidizer inventory and safety systems allowed to fail. The findings carry direct lessons for shippers, warehouses and bulk carriers at the receiving end of a hazmat move.
Three Aframax cargoes reveal how Iraq converted a road-tanker workaround through Syria into a new Mediterranean export lane—and where its limits remain.
Fairlife’s U.S. production suspension shows how a cyber incident at a dairy processor can reach milk pickup, plant receiving and traceability without touching the tanker itself.
A Texas filing details the $76 million, 288,786-square-foot Ninth Avenue Foods dairy plant in Longview and the future food-grade freight opportunity around it.
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