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Oilpatch trucking company shuts down as bankruptcy looms
Story by: Nate Tabak, Border & North America Correspondent at FreightWaves – Monday, March 2, 2020 Dalmac Energy, a trucking company serving Canada’s struggling oilpatch, has shut down as a creditor-imposed bankruptcy looms. Alberta-based Dalmac ceased operations abruptly on Jan. 27 as a court-appointed receiver assumed control over the firm, CEO John Babic told […]
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Einride to hire first ever remote truck operators, plans U.S. launch
Story by: Linda Baker, Staff Writer at FreightWaves Einride, a Swedish-based remote operated autonomous trucking and transportation company, announced today that they will be hiring their first remote drivers in Sweden in March 2020 and in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2020. “We are very glad to hire someone that will be taking […]
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Illinois carrier is shutting down: cites brutal freight market, soaring insurance costs
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves Family-owned BK Trans Inc. of Arlington Heights, Illinois, said it will cease operations in March, citing a brutal freight market, the ongoing struggle to find qualified drivers and soaring insurance costs as the main reasons behind the small carrier’s decision to close after 10 years. “The market in […]
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Video captures train collision with tractor-trailer (Warning strong language)
Story by: Noi Mahoney A FreightWaves A motorist captured dramatic video early Tuesday morning of a passenger train slamming into a tractor-trailer just north of San Antonio. Truck driver and passengers and crew on Amtrak train uninjured. Video courtesy Chris/YouTube – Warning Strong language and high impact Officials with the Cibolo Police Department said […]
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Penske Logistics to shutter cross-dock facility, lay off 120 workers and drivers
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves A major logistics company, Penske Logistics notified approximately 120 workers and truck drivers on Feb. 24 that it will permanently shutter its cross-dock facility in Coldwater, Michigan, on April 30. The closure is in response to “the unexpected loss of a fair market bid with Ford Motor […]
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Mexican factories feel coronavirus effect
Story by: Noi Mahoney at Freightwaves Factories in Mexico feeling effect from Coronavirus Factories across Mexico have begun to feel disruptions in their supply chains caused by the coronavirus. The coronavirus has already wreaked havoc in China. Now, Mexican auto parts and electronics factories that depend on materials from China have been affected as well, said […]
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Illinois trucking company lays off drivers, shuts off Wisconsin terminal
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves Almost 70 employees, including 61 truck drivers, got just three days’ notice that Black Horse Carriers Inc. was permanently shuttering its terminal in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday. The closure is in response to a customer’s decision to “discontinue business” with the carrier at its Pewaukee location, Nancy Brooks, director […]
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Mass layoffs reported after autonomous trucks startup Starsky Robotics fails to find investors
Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics has laid off the majority of its engineers and office personnel after its fundraising efforts and attempts to find a buyer failed, a former executive says. A skeleton crew remains at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco as Starsky co-founders Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, chief […]
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Veteran driver switched his diesel truck for the electric one and he likes it
Story by: Alan Adler at FreightWaves Over two decades and 2 million miles, Karl Williams has driven practically every diesel-powered truck brand on the road. Now behind the wheel of an electric truck, he relishes keeping his place in stop-and-go traffic and misses neither the engine clatter nor the smell of diesel fuel. “I […]
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