Business

Building a culture of safety and respect will raise the bar for all of your employees, both labor and management. You’ll be surprised when employees you’ve already written off come to you for help rising above their own failures because they want to better themselves.

There’s no doubt that the failure of some shippers and consignees to promptly load or unload trailers is a serious issue for the trucking industry. Because of this, most fleets have added detention rules into their contracts with their customers, detailing just how long it should take for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.

Cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico, already beset by political issues and road-safety concerns, faces a serious new problem in the form of a warning from the U.S. State Department.

Public comments on a proposal to allow Mexican longhaul trucks on U.S. highways were largely divided among those who urgently want retaliatory Mexican tariffs ended and those who fear the move would make the nation’s roads less safe and steal jobs from Americans.

Truckers crossing the northern Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as of July 1.

Equipment upgrades, fleet failures and tuck-in acquisitions have created an inventory of used mobile communications units, and bargain-seeking carriers looking for small batches of these systems have created sustainable demand for secondhand units, several tech executives have said.

The average cost of a gallon of U.S. retail diesel declined 4.3 cents to $4.061 a gallon last week, the biggest drop in nearly a year, according to the Department of Energy.

Transportation software maker TMW Systems said that it has acquired privately held Appian Logistics Software. Terms were not disclosed.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics said it is expanding manufacturing for Bobcat Co. and will be hiring about 35 workers in the next few weeks.