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Amazon starts building its own fleet of semi-trucks
Story by: Mark Solomon @ FreightWaves I Amazon.com. Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is preparing to take a step that many thought would be inevitable – acquiring its own power units. Amazon, which has spent the past six years forming a massive shipping and logistics network, already owns or leases thousands of truck trailers. But it relies on […]
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FMCSA opened registration for drug & alcohol clearinghouse
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) registration is now open for the Congressionally-mandated Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. To learn more or to register visit: clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register Registration is now open for the Congressionally mandated Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. To learn more or to register, visit: https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/register Gepostet von Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration am Freitag, 11. Oktober […]
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Amazon delivery partner cuts more than 400 jobs in Texas
More than 1,200 trucking and freight jobs have been eliminated across Texas since September 16 Story by: Noi Mahoney @ FreightWaves Letter Ride, a delivery service provider for Amazon, is cutting 423 positions at facilities across Texas. The company is eliminating jobs at its facilities in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, according to recent […]
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Trucking Freight Futures 10-7-2019
Trucking Freight Futures by Layla Rapp @ FreightWaves Source and credits: freightwaves.com /Layla Rapp / iTrucker / Mario Pawlowski
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Historic snowstorm to keep slamming Plains and Rockies into weekend
Story by: Nick Austin, Director of Weather Analytics and Senior Meteorologist @ FreightWaves I For the past two days, a major early season storm has been dumping huge amounts of snow in the northern Rockies and northern Great Plains in the U.S., and causing road closures and power outages in southern Canada. Parts of Montana […]
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FMCSA chief Ray Martinez leaves the agency
Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent @FreightWaves Ray Martinez is leaving the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and will be replaced by current FMCSA Chief Counsel Jim Mullen, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today (Oct. 10). No reason was initially given for his departure. FMCSA was not immediately available to comment. Martinez, […]
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A significant potentially historic winter storm to impact the Northern Rockies
Story by: Mario Pawlowski @ iTrucker Widespread moderate to heavy snow from southeast Montana into portions of the central and northern Plains. Record low temperatures possible across the western and central U.S. through Friday. A vigorous upper-level trough and strong associated cold front will move from the Rockies into the central U.S. today. Widespread moderate […]
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Arkansas trucking company owner charged in human trafficking case
Story by: Clarissa Hawes @FreightWaves The owner of an Arkansas-based trucking company has been charged with rape, patronizing a victim of human trafficking and sexual indecency with a child, according to police records. Police documents allege that Hugh O. Daniels, 73, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, “paid to rape” two teenage girls, ages 14 and […]
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Immigration scheme in the Canadian trucking industry prompts warning from feds
Story by: Nate Tabak, Canada Correspondent @ FreightWaves The Canadian government said any employer found to break the rules of a temporary worker program would face “serious consequences” after an investigation by The Globe and Mail exposed a scheme that saw trucking companies with poor safety records luring inexperienced foreign workers into driver careers. Canada’s second-largest newspaper found […]
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