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How trucking became the weak link in America's supply chain...
For years, Justin Raduenz found his work as a freight pricing manager at RGL Logistics highly predictable. The son of a truck driver, he worked out of Green Bay, Wis., managing a team that bid for spot and contract trucking freight work. Tapping into a network of thousands of carriers, he routinely secured quotes for customers from one-truck outfits, large operations and everything in between. Raduenz could move cargo anywhere in America. If it fit in a tractor trailer, he could move it…
Trucking industry hails "huge victory" after Labor Secretary says most truckers will be exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate...
The rule applies to the federal government workforce and anybody working for a company with more than 100 employees, The White House said.
“We’ve heard some pushback from truckers today,” Walsh said in an interview with MSNBC late Thursday. “The ironic thing is most truckers are not covered by this, because they’re driving a truck, they’re in a cab, they’re by themselves, they wouldn’t be covered by this.”
A truck driver meets the exceptions if they work alone or exclusively outdoors and are not interacting with others at pick-up or drop-off locations, according to the Department of Labor…
Texas filling border barrier gaps with shipping containers...
Texas is filling gaps in its U.S.-Mexico border security plan by repurposing shipping containers.
The shipping containers began being deployed in late October as barriers along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to officials.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies … to begin placing large storage containers end to end at low-level water crossings to physically block any illegal immigrants from entry,” Renae Eze, Abbott’s spokeswoman, said in an email to FreightWaves…
What the largest infrastructure spending bill in history means for trucking...
President Biden, this week, will sign into law the largest federal spending package in history aimed at improving U.S. roadways, bridges, ports, and other transportation infrastructure. After previous presidents and congresses failed to address the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges this century…
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