Transportation Canada matches US hours at Port of Wild Horse August 1, 2014 MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Canadian border officials have changed their minds about not mirroring extended border hours next spring at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre, Mont.
Transportation OTA fleets: King Cash beat recession, capacity crunch coming August 1, 2014 TORONTO - Some of Canada's most successful fleet owners shared their vision of the future at the Ontario Trucking Association's annual conference today, as well as a few secrets on how they weathered the eye of the recessionary storm.
Transportation DRIC ‘Hail Mary pass’ falls incomplete August 1, 2014 LANSING, Mich. -- The final day of Michigan's "lame duck" Senate session came and went today without a vote to authorize a new public bridge between Detroit and Windsor.
Transportation Truck Road to Nowhere? Duncan vows Parkway completion August 1, 2014 WINDSOR, Ont. - The $1.6-billion Windsor-Essex Parkway to the U.S. border will forge ahead as planned, despite a Michigan Senate vote yesterday that put a serious dent in the plans for a new international bridge.
Transportation CanAm borders & bridges part of latest WikiLeaks cable August 1, 2014 TORONTO -- A list of the most vital border crossings between Canada and the U.S. is part of a WikiLeaks release of sites the U.S. State Department considers critical to the health and security of the United States.
Transportation Shippers want mandatory weighing of boxes August 1, 2014 NEW YORK - The International Maritime Organization is being urged to establish an international rule that all loaded containers be weighed at the port facility before they are loaded aboard a vessel.
Transportation Capacity expansion lagging behind freight demand: TCP August 1, 2014 NASHVILLE, Ind. - Carriers may be ready to replace their aging fleets, but their appetites for fleet expansion shrunk compared to earlier in the year.
Transportation Metals spur spike in exports August 1, 2014 OTTAWA -- Canada's merchandise exports rose 3.1 percent to $33.8 billion in October as exports of precious metals and copper ores reached record highs.
Meeting yields hope for DRIC: Strahl August 1, 2014 OTTAWA -- A meeting between Chuck Strahl and Michigan Governor-elect Rick Snyder to discuss the future of the DRIC bridge was "very productive," says the Canadian transport minister.
Shipper Survey: The cap back on capacity in ’11 August 1, 2014 TORONTO - Shippers and freight carriers are feeling pretty good about 2011 as truckload, LTL, and rail are all poised to operate at "suitable levels of capacity,"
Bridge closure points to need for DRIC, more crossing capacity August 1, 2014 SARNIA, Ont. -- Proponents of a new bridge at the Windsor-Detroit Gateway say the closure at the nearby Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia highlights the importance of adding redundancy at the busiest crossing in the world.
LA port includes class 7s in clean trucks rule; bans “dray-offs.” August 1, 2014 LOS ANGELES -- If truckers operating in and around the port of Los Angeles think they can get around strict emission regulations by transfering loads to lighter trucks, they'd better think again.
Fleet failures slow down August 1, 2014 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Trucking bankruptcies were the lowest in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the last couple of years, but still continued to bite into capacity.
Keeping MDOT boss ‘encouraging’ for DRIC August 1, 2014 LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan Gov.-elect Rick Snyder announced last month his decision to retain the current director of the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Can-Am surface trade tops $40B August 1, 2014 WASHINGTON - U.S.-Canada surface transportation trade totaled $40.7 billion in October, up 12.2 percent compared to the same month in 2009.