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Borderlands: Cross-border logistics firms expand operations into Mexico

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Cross-border logistics firms expand operations into Mexico; Texas State Highway 130 toll road truck traffic up over 9%; Karat packaging opens new distribution facility in Arizona; and Pirelli opens Mexico training center, hits 50M-tire milestone.

Cross-border logistics firms expand operations into Mexico

Doubling down on nearshoring trends south of the border, Arrive...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/borderlands-cross-border-logistics-firms-expand-operations-into-mexico

Arrive Logistics expands freight brokerage operation into Canada

With nearshoring trends increasing freight flows across North America, Arrive Logistics aims to tap into more freight north of the border with its newest office in Toronto.

The Toronto location helps the Austin, Texas-based freight brokerage provide more localized service to customers across the Great White North.

“The expansion into the Toronto office is really exciting for us, because it puts us in a pretty small class of brokers who have boots on the ground in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico,”...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/arrive-logistics-expands-freight-brokerage-operation-into-canada

Borderlands: Stronger Mexican peso could pose challenges for US-Mexico trucking

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Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border...

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Truck transportation employment moves up and down in same month

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The number of truck transportation jobs in the latest monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics report was...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-transportation-employment-moves-up-and-down-in-same-month

Borderlands: AI’s rising impact on cross-border trade focus of new report

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: AI’s rising impact on cross-border trade focus of new report; Mexican authorities recorded 142 tractor-trailer thefts in April; Texas logistics firm opens Phoenix location; and South Texas college launching CDL program.

AI’s rising impact on cross-border trade focus of new report

According to a new report from Eurora, AI and machine learning (ML) can help shippers...

Scheduling Standards Consortium grows ranks, readies API release

The Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) has added seven partners as it prepares new open application programming interface scheduling standards to be released by the end of the year.

Digital freight brokers Uber Freight and Convoy and logistics provider J.B. Hunt formed the SSC in December to begin standardizing trade data and synthesizing scheduling technology.

Related: Convoy, J.B. Hunt and Uber Freight call for standardized scheduling API

New members announced Monday are Arrive Logistics,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/scheduling-standards-consortium-grows-ranks-readies-api-release

How execs view weather impact and what tech can do to help

When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas in August 2017, it brought with it 152 mph winds, 5- to 10-foot storm surges and more than 50 inches of rainfall, leaving a path of destruction in its wake.

But Harvey’s impact didn’t stop there — it also brought the region’s supply chain to a near screeching halt.

Damage to transportation infrastructure, shuttered factories and distribution centers, and halted oil production sent disruptive shockwaves throughout the logistics industry. The $125...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-execs-view-weather-impact-and-what-tech-can-do-to-help

Tesla’s arrival in Mexico could boost cross-border trade by $15B

For U.S.-Mexico trade, Tesla Inc. could prove to be the gift that keeps on giving.

With the automaker recently confirming that it’s building a $5 billion factory in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, trade experts said Tesla is already influencing cross-border logistics and trucking.

“Tesla’s impact on Mexico can already be felt long before they actually open their Mexico gigafactory,” Jordan Dewart, president of logistics operator Redwood Mexico, told FreightWaves. “After Tesla’s move to...

December market update with David Spencer

On this week’s episode of Check Call, David Spencer, director of business intelligence at Arrive Logistics, joins host Mary O’Connell to dive into the December market update.

Key quotes from Spencer:

“Our outlook certainly calls for a continuation of a weaker-than-normal spot market and carriers looking for volume to keep their trucks running. Contract business is certainly going to be a great tool for carriers to do just that. I would expect carriers to continue to chase and go after and try and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/december-market-update-with-david-spencer

Check Call: Data never lies with Arrive Logistics

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, Alex Schwarm, chief innovation officer at Arrive Logistics, joins FreightWaves host Mary O’Connell to dive into all things tech innovation and integration.

Key quotes from Schwarm:

“The first thing is to define the problem that you’re trying to solve. You have to have a very clear definition of that. It can’t be well, I want to have a better prediction or I want to have some model that does something. It’s about defining the business problem because once...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-data-never-lies-with-arrive-logistics

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