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Two Plants That Make Jeep Grand Cherokee to Pause Production

By |2025-04-23T08:19:54-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 11:41 AM|Trucking News|

The Detroit Assembly Complex will pause production next week, the latest of several plant cutbacks by Stellantis. (Daniel Mears/The Detroit News/TNS) Stellantis NV’s Detroit Assembly Complex plants that build Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs will pause production next week, the latest of several plant cutbacks made by the automaker in recent weeks. The ...more

Transport Experts Prepare for Trump-Era Regulatory Shift

By |2025-04-23T08:20:00-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 11:38 AM|Trucking News|

From left to right: Baskin, Camden and Garney. (Connor D. Wolf/Transport Topics) AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump's commitment to reduced federal regulations is expected to lead to a shift in how transportation policy is handled, experts detailed during a discussion April 21. The discussion was hosted as part of Vision 25 — The Motive Innovation ...more

IMF: US, Global Economic Outlook Deteriorate in Trade War

By |2025-04-23T08:20:05-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 10:08 AM|Trucking News|

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas presents the world economic outlook during the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington on April 22. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg) WASHINGTON — The U.S. and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President Donald Trump's tariffs and the uncertainty they have created, the International Monetary Fund said April ...more

Logistics and Shipping Players Are Doubling Down on Mexico

By |2025-04-23T04:20:09-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 9:11 AM|Trucking News|

A DHL warehouse. DHL just finished a $120 million expansion at its Querétaro air hub. (DHL) Oversized flags from three countries dominate Oscar Del Cueto Cuevas’ office in Mexico City: one from the U.S., another from Mexico and the last from Canada. For the president of Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s Mexico operations, the flags are ...more

US-China Tariffs Hit Amazon, FedEx, UPS Distribution Links

By |2025-04-23T12:20:40-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 4:34 AM|Trucking News|

China remains Southern California’s largest trading partner, with roughly $130 billion in imports passing through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach last year. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports threaten to disrupt Southern California’s trade and logistics economy, a sector that moves a third of the nation’s container cargo ...more

Bessent Predicts US-China Trade De-Escalation

By |2025-04-23T08:19:27-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 2:45 AM|Trucking News|

Bessent speaks to reporters outside the White House April 9. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an April 22 speech that the ongoing tariffs showdown against China is unsustainable and expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. But in a private speech in Washington ...more

Tariffs Hit Halliburton’s Core Fracking Business

By |2025-04-23T08:19:31-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 2:08 AM|Trucking News|

“A lot’s happened in three weeks,” Miller said. (Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg News) Halliburton Co., the world’s largest provider of hydraulic fracturing services, fell sharply after warning investors that tariffs will impact a wide swath of the company’s business units. The dominant North American oil field services provider told investors April 22 on a conference call ...more

By |2025-04-23T07:25:09-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

A trucking company has been granted an exemption by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration allowing them to secure metal coils using a single-strap tie down.  The FMCSA published a notice on April 21st, 2025, granting an exemption renewal for K&L Trucking out of Delta, Ohio that allows them to utilize an alternative cargo securement ...more

By |2025-04-23T11:24:23-05:00April 22nd, 2025 at 12:00 AM|Trucking News|

New York officials have so far ignored the deadline to stop congestion pricing in New York City, despite “terminated approval” from the US Department of Transportation.  The congestion pricing in New York City began in January, and charges drivers a toll for entering certain parts of the city during certain times in an attempt to ...more

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