New Legend Inc. (“Legend”) announced plans Monday to switch all of the company’s local running lanes to an entirely all-electric fleet by 2023, starting with the purchase of 50 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadias for Southern California. “This is a good move…
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Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) continued to struggle in ramping production of its composite-body electric delivery vans, delivering just six units in Q1. But the Cincinnati-based company said it has built 38 of its C-Series vans so far this year, most…
A Canadian facility of National Steel Car, a rail parts and freight car manufacturer, has been temporarily closed because of an outbreak of COVID-19. A release last week said National Steel Car, in consultation with the public health department in…
Supply chain software provider Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ:DSGX) announced Monday that it has acquired Portrix Logistics Software, a global rate management solution that provides logistics providers with multimodal price visibility. Descartes will integrate its current supply chain systems with Portrix’s…
Colonial Pipeline, which carries fuel from the Gulf Coast region to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, is now targeted to be back online by the end of the week. In a statement released midday Monday, the company, which shut the line…
FreightWaves Classics articles look at various aspects of the transportation industry’s history. If there are topics that you think would be of interest, please send them to fwclassics@freightwaves.com. The many industries that make up the world of freight have undergone…
In Part 1 of this article, the California portion of Interstate 5 was the focus. This article focuses on I-5 in the states of Oregon and Washington. Overview There are 70 primary interstate highways in the Dwight D. Eisenhower National…
Allstates WorldCargo, a global supply chain solutions company founded in 1961, recently announced it has acquired Ground Freight Expeditors (GFE), a freight forwarding company founded in 1999 by Paris Brothers, a specialty foods company. In 2020, Clarendon Capital invested in…
The FBI said on Monday that the DarkSide ransomware gang was responsible for the cyberattack that led to the shutdown of Colonial Pipeline. The FBI shed any new light on its investigation into the attack, saying in a statement, “We…
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