The Truckload Carriers Association said the addition of Mexico's Olympic Transportation to its membership rolls highlights the organization’s role serving all North American truckload fleets.
A new Volvo Group truck plant in Mexico will complement the Mack LVO plant in Pennsylvania and the Volvo NRV plant in Virginia, which will continue to be the company’s main North American heavy truck production sites.
J.B. Hunt and BNSF Railway continue to expand their intermodal collaboration, teaming up with Mexican rail provider GMXT to provide fast service between Mexico and the U.S.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City added 1,000 new, 53-foot, refrigerated intermodal containers to its network to more than double its existing fleet and bring more shipping options to customers using the expanding Mexico Midwest Express (MMX) series intermodal service.
While the Mexican government recently appeared to be pointing a finger at the governor of Texas for slowing trade, delays during periods of increased inspections at border crossings are a part of doing business for the state’s trucking industry.
Mexico’s Economy Department called on Texas to stop the stepped-up truck inspections at the Brownsville-Matamoros crossings, claiming some shipments have been delayed as long as 27 hours.
Even as the new CPKC combined railway announced another major customer, three railroads announced they have teamed up to create a competing Mexico-U.S.-Canada rail service.
A newly expanded 500,000-square-foot manufacturing campus in Arteaga, Mexico, will take the lead in producing Phillips Industries and Phillips Connect products destined for North American fleet customers.
Some truck component suppliers have shifted some production away from China. Is Mexico the answer?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s April 6 order to increase inspections at Texas ports of entry left trucks facing extreme delays and dropped commercial traffic by as much as 60%.
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