Comments on California’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule and the state’s waiver request to let it implement the rule are being taken by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A virtual public hearing on the issue is set for Aug. 14 at 10 a.m., according to an announcement from the EPA.
Comments are being taken at the federal government’s portal for that purpose: regulations.gov. The docket number for the case is EPA-HQOAR-2023-0589.
The ACF rule was to have taken effect Dec. 31, 2023. It is a...
On a recent episode of Fuller Speed Ahead, Craig Fuller, founder and CEO at FreightWaves, was joined by Mark Picarello, managing director at SecurSpace and CargoWise Landside, to talk about the state of the market and highlight recent enhancements in their CargoWise platform.
Fuller notes that WiseTech Global, the parent company, has made a number of acquisitions across the supply chain space. Picarello notes that one of the big, positive impacts from the recent acquisitions has been the gains...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/building-the-operating-system-for-global-and-landside-logistics
RoadOne IntermodaLogistics announced it has broken ground on a 100-acre distribution and transloading facility near the Port of Charleston.
The Summerville, South Carolina, site will be constructed in two phases. The company plans to open a 384,800-square-foot facility with 13 acres of trailer and container parking in January. A second phase will be completed in January 2027 and will add 279,720 square feet of space and 10 acres of parking.
The locations will be fenced, gated, lighted and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/roadone-breaks-ground-on-100-acre-site-near-port-of-charleston
Long Beach, California-based NEXT Trucking recently announced product and program updates as part of its tech stack improvements following its merger with Chicago-based digital freight broker CDL-1000. These updates are targeted at improving the experience for both shippers and carriers by leveraging the combined companies’ resources and industry expertise.
NEXT Trucking began as a FreightTech pioneer back in 2015 with a focus on connecting full truckload and less-than-truckload carriers with...
Trailer parking near the ports of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach is notoriously constrained and it is likely to get worse. Hoping to gain customers who struggle with this issue, some real estate developers are taking a new approach.
Finding adequate facilities to park trucks and store shipping containers is difficult throughout the United States, but the Greater Los Angeles area poses an even greater challenge for the logistics sector.
The port complexes areclosed in with boundaries on all...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/la-zoning-proposal-could-reduce-supply-of-trailer-parking
As the days add up after the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, companies that gather data from trucks and supply chains are beginning to get an idea of where trucks are rerouting in the catastrophe’s wake. Data on ship rerouting is less conclusive.
While some of that data is clear, a lot remains murky as shippers and carriers figure out how to loosen the logistical choke points the collapse created.
One of the clearest data series in the market, because it is fed by decisions...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a waiver for trucking impacted by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Maryland. Meanwhile, the outlines of a possible return to at least partial service at the port of Baltimore has been sketched out by the state’s Department of Transportation.
The FMCSA issued the waiver late Thursday night. Most prominent among the changes is adding two hours to the allowed hours of daily driving under the 14-hour on-duty limit. That...
More than $109 million of California’s share of the money for cleaner vehicles funded by the giant settlement in the Volkswagen diesel scandal will be used to buy, among other things, zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) for drayage.
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) announced earlier this month that it was releasing about $109.3 million for two categories of cleaner-energy vehicle purchases. The first is for “combustion freight and marine projects,” which comprises a wide range...
Memphis, Tennessee-based intermodal logistics provider IMC Logistics has acquired American Pacific Transportation, boosting the company’s drayage truck capacity across California.
“As a result of this acquisition, we will have more than 500 trucks in California, signifying our commitment to our customers in this region,” Joel Henry, IMC’s CEO, said in a news release.
American Pacific Transportation has locations in Calexico, Chino, Commerce, San Diego and Lompoc, California. The carrier has...
Even with regulators shelving California’s Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule for at least a few months, the first data released by the Port of Long Beach suggests how the drayage industry was getting ready for its launch at the start of this year.
How the data is interpreted is a classic case of whether the glass is half-full or half-empty.
When the ACF was expected to kick in Jan. 1, with its biggest impact hitting first in the drayage sector, the most significant rule was that no new vehicles...