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Yellow Corp Truck, Congress questioning Yellow Corp loan

Yellow Corp Focusing On Yield

Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Yellow Corp. announced tonnage declines for the first two months of the third quarter. The company saw tonnage per day decline 5.7 percent year-over-year in July, accelerating to down 8.5% in Aug.

Whiskey Residue Powering Fleet

Whiskey Residue Powering Fleet

Scotch whiskey distiller Glenfiddich is using waste from its whiskey-making process to produce renewable natural gas, which then is used to power its fleet of delivery trucks. Glenfiddich is leading a sustainability initiative to address…

Port of Los Angeles Container Port,

Freight Piling Up On West Coast

Carriers have a clear preference in terms of where they are trying to position themselves in the U.S. and it illustrates just how unbalanced transportation capacity continues to be. Loads traveling more than 800 miles…

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Teamsters Fighting Speed Limiters

The Teamsters union is fighting a move by TFI International’s TForce Freight to cut the maximum speed of trucks from 68 miles per hour to 65. The union’s national negotiating committee for TForce quietly filed…

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Aluminum Futures Surge

Aluminum futures extended its rally in late summer to rise above $2,740 a ton in September, the highest since May 2011, as political unrest in Guinea fueled concerns over supplies of the raw material needed…

Daimler Trucks North America, Freightliner Cascadia

Daimler Issues Recall

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is recalling certain Freightliner Cascadia trucks due to an insufficiently tightened drag link taper joint. If the joint becomes loose, it can result in the gradual separation of the drag…

Green Trucks in Lineup

Coalition sets sights on supply chain

Supply chain stakeholders are forming a coalition in the southwestern U.S. that seeks to stage certain logistics activities in Nevada, Utah and Arizona and away from the densely populated metropolitan and port areas in California.

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