18 Mar Commercial Vehicle World Focuses on Business Continuity While truck drivers are out delivering freight to restock bare shelves or deliver medicines and other vital goods, commercial vehicle manufacturers, dealers and suppliers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic are focused on keeping their employees healthy and ensuring services, equipment and components remain available to fleets. Read more...
18 Mar US to Close Canadian Border; Trade Not Affected The duration of a temporary ban on nonessential travel between the United States and Canada could be a month, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on March 18. Read more...
18 Mar Detroit Automakers Agree to Rotating Partial Shutdown of Plants General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will partially shut down their U.S. plants on a rotating basis in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Read more...
18 Mar Tesla’s Fremont Factory Forced to Shut Down Under Shelter in Place Order After some confusion, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department in California said March 17 the car plant was not “essential,” and like most other businesses must shut down under the county’s shelter-in-place order which took effect March 17. Read more...
18 Mar Chinese Port Restricts Ships From Virus-Hit Nations for 14 Days The port of Fuzhou in eastern China is restricting vessels arriving from nine countries including the U.S. and Singapore in efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus by visiting ships and their crew. Read more...
18 Mar Meritor Terminates Agreement With Wabco Meritor Inc. announced the distribution agreement between the company and a subsidiary of Wabco Holdings Inc. was terminated effective March 13. Read more...
17 Mar ATA’s Spear Urges White House Action on Coronavirus to Keep Trucks Moving American Trucking Associations is asking the Trump administration to take specific steps that will help the trucking industry in its efforts to keep stores and medical facilities stocked with supplies as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
17 Mar FedEx Reports Mixed Earnings; Leadership Cites Impact of Coronavirus FedEx announced March 17 that year-over-year quarterly net income for its fiscal third quarter fell 57% to $315 million, compared with $739 million in the same period a year ago. But Q3 revenue rose 3% to $17.5 billion from $17 billion a year ago. Read more...
17 Mar UPS, FedEx Ease Signature Rules to Protect Against Virus FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. are dropping the normal signature rules for package deliveries to protect customers and workers as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. Read more...
17 Mar Trump: ‘Hopefully We’re Not Going to Need’ National Lockdown A nationwide lockdown to essentially pause public activity for a couple of weeks is not a move President Donald Trump said he is willing to take at this moment as government officials toil to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Read more...