13 May Mail Delivery Delays Persist in Metro Detroit Slow, sometimes nonexistent mail delivery continues to plague several Metro Detroit neighborhoods despite the best efforts of U.S. lawmakers to identify and correct the problems. Read more...
13 May Biden Warns Against Gas Price Gouging After Cyberattack President Joe Biden warned gasoline stations not to engage in any price gouging as motorists wait for fuel to start flowing reliably through the Colonial Pipeline, which reopened on May 12 after falling victim to a cyberattack. Read more...
13 May Disruptions Add More Stress to Already Strained Capacity Market Already stressed capacity is facing new pressure as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and demand increases. Read more...
13 May Federal, State Responses to Colonial Pipeline Attack Consider Trucking Government agencies at the federal and state levels took a variety of measures — including some to help facilitate truck movement — in response to the cyberattack that temporarily halted operations for Colonial Pipeline. Read more...
13 May Louisiana House Takes Action on Staged Accidents Involving Trucks The Louisiana House has passed a bill that would make staging an accident with a car or truck a serious state crime. Read more...
13 May More Than 700 Barges Stuck in Mississippi River From Bridge Crack A crack in a bridge over the Mississippi River has stranded more than 700 barges, cutting off the biggest route for U.S. agricultural exports when the critical waterway is at its busiest. Read more...
13 May Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on May 7, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction. Read more...
13 May Driver Positive Drug Tests Continue at Last Year’s Rate So Far in 2021 The rate of positive truck driver drug tests recorded in the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse in the first three months of this year remains on pace with last year’s, and the number of drivers who have yet to enroll in return-to-duty programs remains persistently low. Read more...
13 May Loads Increasingly Shifting to Spot Market, DAT Data Shows An increasing number of loads are shifting onto the spot market amid tight conditions in trucking, according to recent data by DAT Freight & Analytics. Read more...
13 May US Shipping Rule Waived so Foreign Tanker Can Deliver Fuel The Biden administration temporarily eased century-old U.S. shipping requirements so a single foreign tanker could transport gasoline and jet fuel to the East Coast, where the Colonial Pipeline outage caused tanks to run dry. Read more...