A new record for nuclear verdicts against a trucking company may have been set with a $1 billion verdict handed down Tuesday by a Florida jury. What had generally been viewed as the biggest nuclear verdict ever was the $411…
Logistics and materials handling provider Savage has developed and is operating a transload facility at a Chicago-area Canadian Pacific rail yard to support the construction industry. The CPT Chicago Transload terminal at CP’s Bensenville, Illinois, rail yard will transload lumber…
On Nov. 5, 2014, a new company announced its arrival in Australia, promising to take on the monopoly of package delivery that was the Australia Post. Sendle’s founders saw e-commerce’s potential and realized the volume would create inefficiencies and add…
Alternative fuels, electric vehicles, low-carbon fuels and sustainable packaging sound great to many companies and consumers. And many sustainable solutions have no downsides, except one — the cost. While the upfront costs of purchasing light- and medium-duty EVs have come…
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (which oversees Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) recently overturned a multi-million-dollar jury award in a case involving two major trucking companies. The case centered around…
For small to medium-size shippers, finding competitive less-than-truckload pricing tends to be more difficult than it is for their larger counterparts. Without dedicated volume, it can be impossible to establish direct tariffs, or rate bases, directly with LTL providers. Unable…
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The next tropical storm could impact the U.S. just a week after Henri drenched parts of the Northeast and knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. Related: Logistics groups ready to help during potentially busy hurricane season A…
Naegeli Machine Movers worked at U.S. Merchants brand new facility at 10610 Telge Rd. Houston, TX. They unloaded (40) 1200 Ton Plastic Injection Machines (70k each) and (10) 1300 Ton Plastic Injection Machines (88k each) upon arrival from the Port…
Desperate logistics service providers in Chicago are resorting to a number of new tactics, including bribery and undercover extraction missions, to avoid worsening congestion that is trapping shipments for more than a week at O’Hare International Airport’s cargo terminals, according…
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