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Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Customs overhaul may reshape cross-border manufacturing, expert says; Transport Capacity …

Chart of the Week: SONAR Truckload Rejection Index – USA SONAR: STRI.USA The SONAR Truckload Rejection Index (STRI), released only a few weeks ago, has already surpassed last year’s peak …

The ongoing supply and demand imbalance is driving down container prices on U.S. trade routes, as ocean carriers deploy more ships in a soft market. Spot rates as of Dec. …

A capital markets reform bill passed by the House on Thursday includes a provision that would allow electronic delivery to become the default mechanism for providing certain regulatory documents to …

Maersk today announced a raft of changes across senior leadership as rival carriers challenge its dominance in global logistics. Maersk parent A.P. Moller-Maersk said that former Kuehne & Nagel executive …

A federal audit has found that New York State is routinely issuing unlawful or illegal commercial driver’s licenses – which are valid for up to eight years – to foreign …

Ryder System announced a leadership transition on Friday. Chief Executive Officer Robert Sanchez will retire at the close of the first quarter, handing the reins over to Chief Operating Officer …

Mexico’s automotive industry posted sharp declines across cars, light trucks and heavy-duty commercial vehicles in November, as road blockades, labor stoppages and softer global demand disrupted factory operations and slowed …

Peterbilt and Kenworth, both subsidiaries of global original equipment manufacturer PACCAR Inc., have announced expansions of their zero-emission vehicle portfolios with the introduction of multiple medium-duty electric truck models. The …

Three separate West Coast Teamsters locals have teamed up to secure a new contract with food distributor Sysco in an unusual arrangement. The union announced this week, and Sysco confirmed, …

Falling intermodal traffic has again led to a drop in weekly U.S. rail volume compared to 2024. For the week ending Dec. 6, according to statistics from the Association of …

Veritiv, a major player in specialty packaging distribution and supply chain solutions, has unveiled a groundbreaking addition to its cold chain logistics offerings: TempSafe PalletShield, the industry’s first pre-qualified pallet …

“My goal… is to take different perspectives and hear different sides of stories, to formulate my own opinion,” Wingfield said. “Because at the end of the day, you can’t hear …

Is Texas Quietly Downgrading Non-Domiciled CDLs? — Here’s What We Actually Know So Far Over the past several days, screenshots like the one circulating below have spread rapidly across trucking …

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering axing a Biden-era road safety initiative despite evidence that the ambitious program was successful at reducing passenger car and large-truck and fatalities. After …

Steady growth in e-commerce parcel volumes and new lines of business are more than offsetting declines in traditional letter mail for global postal operators, but rising operating costs are squeezing …

DP World’s Marine Services is rebranding its Unifeeder ocean liner unit. As of December, the world’s 16th-largest container carrier, which comprises Unifeeder A/S and Unifeeder ISC, will now be known …

Transfix has reached a milestone in its transition from a freight brokerage to a freight technology provider with the first external adoption of its internally-developed TMS system for brokerages. The …

You share a beer, we share a truck: Stone Brewing’s blueprint for balanced cost, reliability and sustainability In beer, making the product is only half the challenge; the other half …

DP World’s Marine Services is rebranding its Unifeeder ocean liner unit. As of December, the world’s 16th-largest container carrier, which comprises Unifeeder A/S and Unifeeder ISC, will now be known …

The Mexican government on Wednesday approved a sweeping package of new import tariffs — some as high as 50% — on more than 1,400 products from China and other Asian …

The FreightWaves Roadshow 2026 is gearing up for an exciting kickoff. We’re connecting freight and supply chain professionals with critical insights and strategies in some of the most pivotal freight …

A leaked Department of Transportation memo promising a revolutionary new approach to identifying chameleon carriers has set off alarm bells among industry observers who remember that federal regulators already built …

Rail freight stakeholders can mark up their merger calendars. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern plan to file their formal merger application with federal regulators on Dec. 19. The date for …

It isn’t often you find Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and New York Attorney General Letitia James on the same side of an issue. But that pairing and numerous others …

Another weekend, another batch of DOT revocations. More drivers out of work, more equipment sitting idle, more owners walking away from everything they built and right on schedule, the comment …

The Bouqs Co., a direct-to-consumer floral retailer, has engaged UPS (NYSE: UPS) subsidiary Roadie to make same-day deliveries in several major cities using gig drivers as holiday demand spikes and …

CSX has shut down its aviation department, which flew corporate jets to whisk railroad executives around the system and elsewhere. The department, which had been in operation for 84 years …

Lean Solutions Group has spent the last decade building its reputation as a people-first partner in the logistics industry. Its embedded teams became fixtures inside freight brokerages, 3PLs, and carriers …

WASHINGTON — The Federal Highway Administration is calling on the private sector to come up with the additional money needed to relieve one of the country’s top freight chokepoints. The …

Laredo-based cross-border trucking company Texas International Enterprises Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Saturday, reporting between $10 million and $50 million in both assets and liabilities. The carrier …

DHL Supply Chain recently announced the delivery of its first all-electric Tesla Semi. This is part of a larger commitment by the less-than-truckload carrier to reduce its CO2 emissions to …

Flatbed carrier PGT Trucking announced it has acquired Debrick Truck Line for undisclosed sum. Paola, Kansas-based Debrick has 30 power units, according to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data. The …

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said 9,500 commercial truck drivers have been taken off the road this year for failing to meet federal English-language requirements. Duffy announced the figure Wednesday in …

Most freight brokerages say they can handle whatever the market throws at them. Nearly two-thirds report feeling resilient despite rate swings, volume drops, and cash crunches, according to new research …

WASHINGTON — A panel of private-sector advisors to the U.S. Department of Transportation is recommending that DOT coordinate two major infrastructure projects that could have significant implications for truck markets. …

Truckload carrier Heartland Express announced it will integrate and rebrand the domestic operations of Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI), which it acquired in 2022. The changes come amid a stretch of …

Car-and-truck rental company Enterprise Mobility announced it has completed the acquisition of truck lessor and dedicated operator Hogan. The deal adds rolling stock totaling more than 10,000 units to Enterprise’s …

Christopher Kirchner is staying in prison. In a unanimous decision handed down Monday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a three-judge panel affirmed Kirchner’s 20-year sentence …

Daimler Truck’s autonomous Freightliner Cascadia is getting a LiDAR upgrade through a recent deal with Israel-based Innoviz Technologies. The agreement involves Torc Robotics, a Daimler Truck subsidiary that plans to …

Christopher Kirchner, the convicted founder of logistics software startup Slync.io, is staying in prison. In a unanimous decision handed down Monday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth …

RPM Freight Systems, a non-asset-based 3PL focused on finished vehicle transportation, announced it has acquired fleet management services provider, Professional Automotive Relocation Services (PARS). Financial terms of the transaction were …

White Paper- The Backbone of the Resilient 3PL: How Automation is Driving Brokerage Success The freight brokerage industry is at a pivotal moment. Market volatility, rate swings, and cash-flow pressure …

Cold storage warehouse operator Lineage, Inc. provided an update on some longer-term initiatives after the market closed on Monday. It also provided an expected financial contribution from the increased adoption …

The diesel price used as the benchmark for most fuel surcharges recorded the biggest two-week decline in two years with its latest posting. Retail prices are catching up to a …

President Donald Trump said Monday he will impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexican goods unless the country delivers at least 200,000 acre-feet of water to Texas by Dec. 31, …

James Bennett, chief operating officer for the Jacksonville Port Authority, died early Monday in a car accident. Bennett died just before 7:30 a.m. on Interstate 10 west of U.S. 301 …

The number of driverless trucks hauling frac sand in the Permian Basin is growing after Aurora announced Monday that Detmar Logistics will commit to using 30 Aurora Driver-powered autonomous trucks …

WASHINGTON — An effort to clear out illegal and substandard electronic logging devices from the government’s list of approved devices is up 62% so far over last year’s pace, according …

Meet the New Year, same as the Old Year. The effects of rising tariffs are expected to tamp down import demand, the leading retail industry trade group predicts, as policy-driven …