Overview The Port of Chicago consists of several major port facilities within the city of Chicago. The port is operated by the Illinois International Port District (IIPD). It is a multimodal facility composed of Senator Dan Dougherty Harbor (Lake Calumet)…
A husband and wife who were involved in the Louisiana staged accident scheme have been sentenced to prison, and for a lot more time than previous sentencings. Earlier this week, Anthony Robinson and Audrey Harris, who pleaded in December guilty…
CSX has resubmitted its application to acquire New England short line Pan Am Railways, saying the new filing provides a more in-depth market analysis that federal regulators were seeking. The railroad is seeking to prove to regulators and existing and…
A Boeing 737 cargo jet made an emergency nighttime landing in open water off the Hawaii coast early Friday and both pilots were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed. Aviation tracking websites Flightaware.com and Flightradar24.com…
Federal regulators will consider revising rules for windshield-mounted cameras in trucks that would make filing for exemptions unnecessary. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal, made at the request of Daimler Trucks North America and scheduled to be published on…
Autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) company Geek+ announced it has now deployed 20,000 robots across the globe. The Beijing-based company has automated warehouses for the likes of Circle K, Walmart, Nike, Decathlon and more in the past two years. It opened…
This week, we look at how technology patents suggest possible winners and also-rans in the autonomous trucking race to commercialization. And Cummins cuts a deal that replaces the sunsetting of its 20-year-old natural gas joint venture with Westport Fuel Systems.…
Canadian trucking and logistics firm Mullen Group (TSX:MTL) has added another acquisition to its belt, buying Manitoba carrier and brokerage R.S. Harris Transport, an open-deck transport specialist. Mullen announced the deal on Friday. Winnipeg-based Harris Transport adds 50 trucks and…
The push to bring in more truck drivers may be starting to yield results. In the June employment report released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, total jobs in truck transportation on a seasonally adjusted basis rose 6,400…
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what’s happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, we look at the impact of the highway reauthorization bill, a significant acquisition by DP World and more. The High Five 1. The…
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