Walking the tightrope between cost-cutting and safety/operational efficiency is part of life as a fleet manager, but with the pandemic wreaking havoc on revenues through lost working days and supply chain disruptions, reducing operational costs has assumed critical significance. There are numerous overheads in this line of work. The most prominent ones that spring to […]
Two days after the California Trucking Association (CTA) filed its AB 5 case petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, truckers can’t be 100% confident the court will take up the association’s request. It was filed late in the day Monday, August 9, for reconsideration of the Ninth Circuit’s Spring ruling on California’s AB 5 contractor law. Speaking […]
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed its version of a $1 trillion infrastructure funding package that provides $550 billion in new monies. The passage of the bipartisan legislation, which was approved in a 69-30 vote Tuesday, follows weeks of debate in the Senate. The bill will now move to the U.S. House, where it could […]
Navistar will not be ordered to pay $30.8 million in damages to Tennessee-based Milan Express (CCJ Top 250, No. 159) after a ruling by the state’s high court upheld an appellate court’s decision to throw out a lower court’s ruling. In August 2017, Navistar was ordered to pay nearly $31 million to Milan, which had […]
It seems now like a lifetime ago, but I rarely worked from an office pre-COVID. I had one. I just never saw it. I was on the road just about every other week, and in between airports I had the benefit of working from home. The transition to remote work over the last year and […]
Under the strategic partnership announced earlier this year between Cummins and Daimler Truck AG, Cummins will invest in the further development of the medium-duty engine platform and its global production and delivery starting in the second half of the decade for Daimler Trucks & Buses, the companies announced Thursday, As a result, Daimler Truck AG will no longer […]
PS Holdco, the parent company of Birmingham, Alabama-based flatbedder PS Logistics, has purchased all substantial transportation assets of Patriot Transit and Patriot Logistics, a privately owned interstate trucking and logistics provider that specializes in flatbed shipping to the Gulf Coast and Southwest. Founded by David Spencer and Rex Ready and based in Houston, Texas, Patriot […]
Amwins, the largest independent wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products in the U.S., has acquired National Truck Underwriting Managers, Inc. (“NTUM”), a truck insurance wholesaler offering access to primary liability, physical damage and motor truck cargo package policies. “This partnership provides us with the opportunity to enhance and diversify our delegated underwriting capabilities and transportation offerings,” said Scott M. […]
President Joe Biden, on a tour of Mack Truck’s Lehigh Valley Operations (LVO) truck plant Wednesday, revealed proposed changes to the Buy American Act that would increase U.S. content in the products the federal government buys, thereby supporting the domestic production of goods. Mack Trucks President Martin Weissburg noted that this week marks the 121st […]
