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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Government, Business, Logistics

North American Trade Reps Start Talks on NAFTA Overhaul

Trade representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico have begun talks aimed at resetting terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a process that is expected to take many months to conclude and which could have profound implications for freight carriers and the supply chain operations of companies in all three countries.

Daniel P. Bearth | Staff Writer
August 24, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics

Russ Elliott on Melton Truck Lines' ELD Implementation

Russ Elliott, senior vice president of operations at Melton Truck Lines in Tulsa, Okla., tells TT's Seth Clevenger about his carrier's experience with ELD implementation. Part of our Aug. 23 LiveOnWeb: The ELD Landscape Ahead. Watch full program at bit.ly/TT-LOW0823.

August 23, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics

Tom Poduch of Transervice Logistics on ELDs

Tom Poduch, director of design logistics at Transervice, talks about transitioning from AOBRDs to ELDs and other ELD topics with TT's Seth Clevenger. Part of our Aug. 28 LiveOnWeb program, "The ELD Landscape Ahead." bit.ly/TT-LOW0823

August 23, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics

The ELD Landscape Ahead

How strictly will the ELD mandate be enforced? If you have AOBRDs, should you switch or wait? TT Managing Editor/Features Seth Clevenger hosted LiveOnWeb: The ELD Landscape Ahead with special guest Joe DeLorenzo of FMCSA and additional guests by prerecorded video.

August 23, 2017
Government, Logistics

Mississippi Senate Panel to Again Study State’s Transportation Woes

The Mississippi Senate Transportation Committee has two days of hearings scheduled for Aug. 24 and Aug. 25 for members to again hear about the poor condition of the state’s transportation system.

Bobby Harrison | Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (Tupelo, Miss.)
August 23, 2017
Business, Logistics

CSX CEO Harrison Fires Back at Critics

CSX Corp. CEO E. Hunter Harrison issued a stark rebuke of complaints about poor service, sending a scathing letter to a coalition of rail shippers, lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and regulators at the Surface Transportation Board.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
August 22, 2017
Business, Logistics

California Ports Tout Progress in Fight Against Environmental Pollution

The top three containerports in California touted recent accomplishments in the battle against pollution as stakeholders debate what will be included in an update to the Clean Air Action Plan.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
August 22, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA

Penske Logistics to Build $100 Million Warehouse Distribution Center in Michigan

Penske Logistics will build a $98.5-million, 606,000-square-foot Midwest regional distribution center in Romulus, Mich., creating an estimated 403 new jobs.

John Gallagher | Detroit Free Press
August 22, 2017
Government, Business, Technology, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous, TCA

$90 Million Driverless Vehicle Test Track Takes Shape in Florida

Florida’s best hope to develop self-driving vehicles might lie with an iconic-looking campus and a $90 million test track being built 40 miles southwest of Orlando.

Mary Shanklin | Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
August 22, 2017
Government, Logistics, TCA

Washington Seeks Drivers to Test Alternative Road Use Tax

Washington is seeking about 2,000 drivers to test a new way to pay to maintain the state’s roadways.

August 22, 2017