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The head of the American Trucking Association (ATA) has lobbed a new grenade at Gov. Gina Raimondo’s truck-toll law, describing it as an unacceptable effort to force his industry to underwrite the cost of repairing Rhode Island bridges, according to a WPRI television report. “We don’t know if this program is legal, but it is…

The release of the final version of California’s Sustainable Freight Action Plan has been met with harsh criticism by two groups representing Golden State’s truck-fleet operators, according to a report in HDT Truckinginfo.com. According to the California Air Resources Board, the revised document is similar to the draft issued back in May. However, CARB claims…

Randolph, New Jersey-based Farren International, a premier total logistics provider since 1959, has announced its merger with EZE Trucking out of Houston, Texas. This new partnership also includes the EZE affiliates Patterson Freight and Rig Runners Inc. With this merger Farren, well known for its quality services in the Northeast, will now have locations and…

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has established the Build America Bureau, which will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit and grant opportunities while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring. “The Build…

Money is lending credibility to a new crop of Uber-like trucking startups, with two large investment firms recently spending millions of dollars to fund the startups Transfix and CargoX, according to an article in truckinginfo.com. Transfix, a provider of on-demand trucking, raised $22 million in Series B funding led by an investment from New Enterprise…

Alibaba’s marketplaces in China represented more than $450 billion in online sales in 2015, which made it the largest e-commerce company in the entire Asia-Pacific region, according to an article in the Business Insider. But its influence does not end there, as the company is starting to become an important potential partner for U.S. shippers…

Sandhills Publishing introduces NeedADriverNow.com, a new website that serves the needs of trucking and transportation companies and drivers in the commercial trucking industry. The website provides a simple avenue for connecting companies seeking commercial truck drivers with qualified drivers seeking jobs. NeedADriverNow.com draws on the widespread reach and success of Truck Paper—the industry’s leading print…

A group of trucking companies in Southern California will pay $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by drivers who alleged that they were improperly treated as independent contractors, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The settlement marks the latest victory for port truck drivers in a years-long battle they have…

Automated vehicles can be the biggest asset in improving the safety of America’s roads, according to Christopher Hart, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, as reported by Transport Topics. In a speech June 30 at the National Press Club, Hart said the following: “An automated 80,000-pound truck will be safer, eventually, than one with…

In his new book “The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream,” Steve Viscelli, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, explains the decline of the trucking industry, which used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States, according to an article on penncurrent.upenn.edu. More than three million…