Trucking

A person died after being hit by a truck in Franklin, Massachusetts, Friday morning, police said.

A Massachusetts woman was found dead near a truck stop in Georgia last month, and a truck driver, also from Massachusetts, was arrested in Indiana on murder charges, officials said Tuesday. Investigators found that Jessica Goodrich, a 46-year-old from Worcester, had been a passenger in Jason Michael Palmer’s long-distance truck, according to a news release from the Camden County...

More than 300 truck drivers at New England’s largest wholesale food distributor have gone on strike, raising concerns about disrupted food deliveries to schools, hospitals and nursing homes. The drivers represented by the Teamsters Local 653 took to the picket line at Sysco Boston early Saturday seeking better pay and benefits. “Management took their abhorrent anti-worker treatment to new lows,…

Walmart workers who once unloaded trucks now have a chance to drive them.

More than a third of bridges need repairs, and over 43,000 are “structurally deficient,” says the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

The pricing of shares and how many shares of the new LTL company current XPO shareholders will receive is still being decided.

Shipping is a key component of U.S. trade but America has some of the least efficient ports in the world, according to a World Bank and IHS Markit study.

Daimler Truck’s focus on zero-emission technology will put it in competition with companies like Tesla and Geely.

Martin Daum emphasized that a number of factors were in play when it came to the costs of electric trucks.

The congestion at U.S. ports, the trucker shortage and the rise of e-commerce have created a unique opportunity, Embark Trucks CEO Alex Rodrigues told CNBC.

“Taking the driver out is the holy grail of this technology,” Gatik CEO Gautam Narang, who founded the autonomous trucking company in 2017, told CNBC.

Convoy co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis on supply chain bottlenecks, inefficiencies in logistics and the impact that self-driving technology will have on trucking.

The trucking industry is a highly fragmented one, in part due to its low entry barriers. It can be a great way to start a business, but it is not an easy life.

C.H. Robinson’s Robert Biesterfeld said Wednesday immigration could help alleviate truck driver shortages that have increased 30% since before the pandemic.

How inefficient is logistics and shipping? Amid empty shelves, companies are literally paying to ship air, and needlessly contributing to climate change.