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More Texas torrents Tropical Depression Imelda continues to slam southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana with copious amounts of rain and life-threatening flooding. Galveston and Beaumont, part of the Houston freight market, have been some of the hardest hit areas with flooded streets...

Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE: TM) recently announced a $391 million investment at its Tacoma and Tundra assembly plant in San Antonio. In addition, Aisin AW, a Japanese auto supplier to Toyota in San Antonio, also announced it will be building a $400 million facility in nearby Cibolo, Texas, adding 900...

Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) plans to invest more than $250 million in a new manufacturing plant near San Antonio, Texas, adding approximately 600 new jobs, if it gets incentives it is seeking. The Lisle, Illinois-based truckmaker also said Thursday, Sept. 19, that it plans to increase...

Lone Star lashing Tropical Depression 11 (TD-11), quickly and newly formed around midday today, Sept. 17, will soak southeastern Texas the next couple of days. Flooding in the Houston and Galveston areas may end up worse than meteorologists, including myself, originally expected. According to the...

Officials in Mexico and the United States are discussing expanding a joint pilot inspection program aimed at reducing wait times for agricultural products at the border The program has already been implemented at Port Laredo's Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, where wait times have been...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Odessa, Texas, ranked #4 city for truck drivers; New U.S. Ambassador arrives in Mexico; Surgere sets its sights on Mexico supply chains; and Love's Travel Stops opens...

Outbound tender volumes (OTVI.USA) finished this week up 4.99 percent year-over-year. South Texas led the climb with both Houston and Laredo posting strong double-digit weekly increases.  OTVI began the week with a strong start before dipping late Thursday, diminishing the weekly gains. Overall,...

California-based Lime has its sights on expansion in car-addicted Texas.  On August 22nd, the electric scooter (e-scooter) operation opened a 17,000 square foot regional repair center in North San Antonio, adding 50 mechanic and operations jobs. But this isn't the first Lime facility in San...

In Texas, several major and regional airports posted large increases in air cargo trade for the first six months of 2019. Amarillo International Airport's trade with the world rose a whopping 19,028 percent compared to the first six months of last year, with a shipment of aircrafts to Brazil...

Port Laredo and the Port of El Paso reported declines in total trade volumes for the first six months of 2019, compared to the same period last year.  Laredo's trade with the world fell slightly – 0.39 percent – from $116.6 billion to $116.15 billion through the first six months of 2019, according...

A federal grand jury indicted three Texas men – two truckers and a state worker – in connection with a scheme to sell commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) without the drivers having to take the required test, according to a report from the San Antonio Express-News.  The indictment, which was handed...

Indiana-based Steel Dynamics Inc. (NASDAQ: STLD) announced it will build a $1.9 billion mill in Sinton, Texas, about 25 miles northwest of the Port of Corpus Christi. The site for the new mill is strategically located for the southwestern United States and Mexican markets, the company said in a...

After decades of planning and discussion, freight traffic could finally have an alternative highway loop around Dallas that saves them from bottlenecks along Interstate 35. The Loop 9 project will add a connection between two interstates in south Dallas – I-35 East and I-45 East. Dallas County...

Texas Gov. Greg Abott recently signed a bill aiming to speed up the inspection process for trucks carrying fresh produce across ports-of-entries along the Texas-Mexico border.  Texas House Bill 2155, which goes into effect September 1, reauthorizes a 2015 program allowing the Texas Department of...

A week after several international border bridges between the United States and Mexico had to be closed because of the migration crisis, U.S. officials announced migrant border arrests fell 28 percent in June. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced July 9 that about 104,000...