22 Mar A Year Later: ATA President Spear Reflects on Pandemic American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear looks back on the industry's response during the early days of COVID-19. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
22 Mar Detroit’s Empty Factories Can Help Win Electric Pickup War In the nascent electric pickup wars, Detroit won’t need tents. Read more...
22 Mar Big Ships Snag Unusual Loads as Dry Bulk Market Tightens Shipments of timber and grain are being loaded onto a class of ship normally reserved for other cargo as strong demand to move commodities causes dislocations to the supply of vessels. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: Commercial Vehicle Suppliers Kept Customers, Workforce in Mind It was crucial for commercial vehicle suppliers to be identified as essential while they tried to find their way through COVID-19 when it first spread a year ago and deepened afterward, an executive with a leading supplier trade group said. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: Logistics Companies Adapted as Needed Logistics companies that diversified, were nimble and leveraged data-driven technologies had the best chance to continue operating throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: Number of Roadside Inspections Fell “It was definitely a strange year for inspectors,” said Kerri Wirachowsky, director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s roadside inspection program. “In the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of agencies just stopped doing inspections completely, only stopping vehicles if they saw an imminent issue,” she said. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: ATA President Spear Lauds Drivers as ‘Soldiers on the Front Lines’ American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear acknowledged the adversity the industry faced during the historic year. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: Ports Battled COVID in 2020, and now Freight Crunch in 2021 American Association of Port Authorities CEO Chris Connor told Transport Topics the biggest takeaway from the coronavirus pandemic is the essential nature of ports. Read more...
21 Mar A Year of Pandemic: Technology Key to States' Response Victoria Sheehan, president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, said technology made an important difference in state transportation departments’ pandemic operations. Read more...
21 Mar CP Rail Agrees to Buy Kansas City Southern for $25 Billion Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $25 billion, seeking to create a 20,000-mile rail network linking the U.S., Mexico and Canada in the first year of those nations’ new trade alliance. Read more...