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ATA Announces Bestpass Renewed as Featured Product Provider

The American Trucking Associations renewed Bestpass, an industry leader in toll solutions, as an ATA Featured Product provider. “The trucking industry is a large-scale operation with trucks delivering the goods and services people rely on from coast to coast,” said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. “Trucking companies are encouraged to explore products that improve efficiency and productivity, like the tolling solutions offered by Bestpass.” Bestpass, Inc. provides single-source payment ... [+]

CIFFA will partner with TIACA and Multimodal Americas at ACF in Toronto

The Canadian International Freight Forwarders’ Association (CIFFA) will partner with TIACA and Multimodal Americas at the Air Cargo Forum (ACF) in Toronto in October 2018. The announcement comes as Vladimir Zubkov formally takes the helm as TIACA’s new Secretary General, replacing Doug Brittin, who ... [+]

Werner Celebrates 35,000th Apprenticeship Program Enrollee

Werner Enterprises is pleased to announce the enrollment of the 35,000th enrollee in its Professional Truck Driver Apprenticeship Program. Penny Vigil, from Lancaster, California, is the 35,000th participant to enroll in Werner’s apprenticeship program. Currently, she runs freight from Los Angeles to Phoenix and back. Vigil ... [+]

UPS Acquires Freightex to Accelerate UK , European Truckload Brokerage Business

UPS announced on January 9 the purchase of Freightex, a U.K.-based asset-light provider of truckload, less-than-truckload, specialized and refrigerated over-the-road services. The acquisition immediately establishes UPS’s presence in the growing U.K. and European third-party logistics (3PL) over-the-road brokerage transportation market and launches a new global ... [+]

NAFTA Freight Volumes Diminish

Three transportation modes – air, vessel and truck – carried less U.S. freight by value with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico in October 2016 compared to October 2015 as total freight on all modes decreased 3.6% to $93.2 billion in ... [+]

Werner Enterprises Unveils Laredo Terminal Expansion

Werner Enterprises has completed a 10-acre expansion project at its terminal in Laredo, Texas, increasing efficiency and driver satisfaction at the facility. The multi-million dollar expansion project includes the development of 10 existing acres to accommodate a second entrance exclusively for Werner equipment, 110 additional trailer ... [+]

ATA Pleased by FMCSA’s Release of Driver Training Final Rule

The American Trucking Associations praises the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for issuing a skills-based entry-level driver training rule. “ATA has consistently advocated that skills, not simply time spent in a classroom or behind the wheel, should be the deciding factor if a student should ... [+]

Share the Road Truck Making Wreaths Across America Delivery

American Trucking Associations and ATA’s Share the Road Highway Safety Program have set out for the second day of the Wreaths Across America delivery to Arlington National Cemetery. “The trucking industry has a longstanding tradition of honoring our nation’s fallen heroes and Wreaths Across America ... [+]

XYpper, Inc. Launches Transformative Technology for the Trucking Industry

Truckers across North America, particularly independent owner operators (IOOs), often struggle to find conveniently located and timely freight loads through an outdated, fragmented and often expensive system of loadboards – online message boards that work like classified ads. Twenty-eight percent of all trucks in the ... [+]

SalSon Welcomes V-Ann Management Principals and Client Base, Expanding Operations in Newark and Houston

SalSon Logistics, a transportation industry leader in intermodal drayage and full-service logistics, is proud to welcome the management team of V-Ann Trucking to its Newark Headquarters. The principals from V-Ann Trucking, which recently discontinued its operations in South Kearny, NJ, will continue serving their customers ... [+]

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