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The Daily Dash is a quick look at what's happening in the freight ecosystem. In today's edition, we highlight the states with the highest number of truck drivers testing positive for drugs and alcohol, warehousing issues in Southern California and more.                       The High Five 1. New...

The multibillion-dollar North American automotive sector, which includes one of the largest components of U.S.-Mexico trade, could dramatically change as many automakers make a substantial shift to manufacturing electric vehicles. On April 30, General Motors (NYSE: GM) became the first U.S....

New data released by the federal Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse shows Texas topping the list of number of registered truck drivers with a positive drug and/or alcohol test violation but Louisiana ranking highest in violation rates based on number of employers. According to the latest...

Sears perfected the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model, long before DTC was widely known. Macy's continued it with its legendary Christmas catalogs, as did many others, but the Sears catalog was the Gold Standard. While the catalog fell out of favor over the past 15 years or so, it is making a...

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The hunt for available capacity is the ongoing refrain since the pandemic shifted consumer buying habits. According to a recent McKinsey survey of CPG companies, 80% of those companies have no expectation that pandemic-fueled transportation costs will decline anytime soon.  A May report from...

This is an excerpt from Monday's (5/3) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest. The what. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) confirmed last week that its annual Prime Day sales bonanza will occur earlier than normal this year. Prior to last year, Prime Day always landed in July and...

Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) has made it official: It's breaking up with Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) and it's going with the merger offer from CP rival CN (NYSE: CNI). The board of directors for Kansas City Southern (KCS) unanimously determined last week that CN's offer to acquire KCS was "...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) wants truck drivers to help the agency assess the safety of replacing outside rear mirrors with in-cab cameras. DOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will publish on Monday a notice seeking comments on the proposal, which will then...

This is an excerpt from Monday's (5/13) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest. There's a startup that was first created to deliver stoner essentials to college kids but is quietly capturing the imagination (and venture capital) of the tech world, and it's time the...

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what's happening in the freight ecosystem. In today's edition, we highlight new trial developments for the former Pilot president, a dangerous-sounding job description and more.  The High Five 1. Mark Hazelwood, the former president of Pilot Co., wants a federal...

The chip shortage has been going on long enough to generate some survey data, and there are some positive things to be found there, but overall the picture is bleak. The general trend seems to be that the impact will be massive and it will last at least through most of 2021, but there are ways of...

Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) is asking the board of directors of Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) to reject a competing merger offer from CN (NYSE: CNI) once and for all. The company has also indicated that it will not seek to compete with CN's revised offer. Both CN and CP are seeking to acquire...