The American Pyrotechnics Association (APA) has asked federal authorities to grant relief from certain regulations for fireworks haulers. In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on April 18, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) asked for pubic comment on a request from the APA for relief for pyrotechnics haulers from certain ...more

A truck driver is dead after a falling tree struck his tractor trailer on Interstate 64 in Virginia on Wednesday afternoon.  The accident happened on April 16th at around 3:30 p.m. on eastbound I-64 at the 172.5 mile marker. According to 12 On Your Side, the tractor trailer was traveling in the right lane when a ...more

Several truckers who bypassed an Oregon weigh station were ticketed and educated during an enforcement detail in Union County this week. According to the Union County Sheriff’s Office (UCSO), deputies partnered with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Oregon State Patrol this week to ticket truckers for bypassing Perry’s weigh station near La ...more

Semi-trucks enter an inspection area at the Otay Mesa port of entry on the US-Mexico border in San Diego. (Ariana Drehsler/Bloomberg) The Department of Transportation recently announced it will proceed with a $150 million grant to build a road and port of entry facility along the San Diego-Baja California border region. Secretary Sean Duffy on ...more

Gantry cranes and shipping containers at the Yantian International Container Terminals in Shenzhen, China, on April 7. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg) The World Trade Organization slashed its forecast for merchandise trade this year as soaring U.S. tariffs and broader uncertainty hammer international commerce. The Geneva-based WTO expects the volume of world merchandise trade to decline by 0.2% ...more

The AI agents can perform numerous tasks like price quoting, processing orders, acquiring trucking capacity, setting delivery appointments and supply chain tracking. (Business Wire) C.H. Robinson has expanded its proprietary fleet of artificial intelligence agents to handle more tasks across the life cycle of a shipment, the company announced April 16. The company launched the ...more

This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred April 8 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP) The operator of the Keystone oil pipeline brought the conduit back into service, putting an end to a weeklong outage caused by an estimated 3,500-barrel spill in rural North ...more

Worker at the headquarters of Hongkong Post on Jan. 6. (Li Peiyun/VCG/Getty Images) HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s post office will stop shipping small parcels to the United States after Washington announced plans to charge tariffs on small-value parcels from the southern Chinese city, the government said April 16. The U.S. government earlier announced that ...more

Workers stock shelves at a warehouse in Baltimore. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg) U.S. importers looking to sidestep Trump administration tariffs are desperately seeking space in a type of warehouse that lets them stash merchandise for as long as five years without paying duties. Customs bonded warehouses, which date to the 19th century, have long appealed to importers ...more

Gavin Newsom in 2024. (Jeff Chi/Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said April 16 that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war. The suit will argue that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...more