PortandTerminal.com, December 12, 2020 NINGBO, CHINA – A container truck lost its load in a Chinese tunnel. The CCTV video, filmed in the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province on December 2, shows the truck’s trailer becoming detached before smashing into the tunnel’s wall. The traffic returned back to normal on the road after an hour of rescue work. The …
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Chaos: U.K. warns of 7,000-truck jams in worst-case Brexit scenario
BLOOMBERG, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 By Joe Mayes for Bloomberg – The U.K. government is warning of 7,000 truck-long queues in Kent in a “reasonable worst case” scenario due to Brexit, a stark assessment of the potential chaos when Britain leaves the European Union’s single market and customs union at the end of the year. In a letter to Britain’s border …
Read More »U.S. May Allow 18-Year-Olds To Drive Big Trucks On Long Hauls
BLOOMBERG, SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 Pilot program of trucking regulator lowers minimum age from 21 | Trucking industry pushed change that alarms safety advocates By Keith Laing for Bloomberg – An 18-year-old can’t buy a beer in most U.S. states, but pretty soon he or she may be able to drive a commercial truck across state lines — and that has safety …
Read More »Intermodal Truckers Demand End to Exploitation by Foreign-Owned Ship Lines
PortandTerminal.com, August 21, 2020 ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carrier Conference (IMCC) filed suit with the Federal Maritime Commission this week, alleging foreign-owned ocean shipping lines engaged in unjust and unreasonable conduct in violation of the Shipping Act. Their unlawful actions have overcharged truckers and their customers for intermodal container chassis at ports and inland terminals throughout …
Read More »Green Shoots: Truck freight volumes recover to pre-Covid levels at end of May
PortandTerminal.com, June 16, 2020 “As businesses begin to reopen across the country and produce season ramps up, we’re seeing a trend back to pre-COVID levels, consistent with seasonal market dynamics,” PORTLAND, OR – After bottoming out at the beginning of May, truckload freight volumes recovered to pre-COVID levels and largely returned to seasonal patterns in the second half of the …
Read More »Truckers hit by coronavirus: Bankruptcies. Layoffs. ‘We’re being gouged”
REUTERS, MAY 14, 2020 “After being told we’re essential and told by the government to stay out here and basically risk our health to continue moving the things that the country needs, we’re being gouged,” CHICAGO (Reuters) – Bryan Hutchens in Oklahoma estimates he’s only used his two flat-bed trucks to shift oilfield equipment for a week out of the …
Read More »Autonomous truck startup TuSimple now valued at $1 billion
PortandTerminal.com, February 23, 2019 Autonomous trucking firm TuSimple has raised $95 million to expand its fleet of self-driving big rigs and fund joint product development with truck manufacturers and equipment makers, the company said Wednesday in an article published by the Wall Street Journal. The latest round of funding values the start-up at $1 billion dollars. TuSimple is developing technology …
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