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Court kills CARB’s $30 reefer truck fee, but refrigeration unit rules intact

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A California environmental regulation on diesel-powered truck refrigeration units (TRUs) that is set...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/court-kills-carbs-30-reefer-truck-fee-but-refrigeration-unit-rules-intact

Container damage warning: China COVID disinfection is damaging reefer boxes

Pictured: seafood on ice. Seafood is the classic reefer cargo. Photo credit: Mike Bergmann via Unsplash.

Damage is being inflicted on the insides of refrigerated containers, an international container body has warned.

The Institute of International Container Lessors is a trade association that represents the marine container leasing and chassis provider industry. It issued a recent statement in which it pointed out that IICL members have noticed instances of “extensive contamination” to the...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/container-damage-warning-china-covid-disinfection-is-damaging-reefer-boxes/

Reefer capacity remains tight: How to optimize available trailers

By: Corrie White, market reporter at FreightWaves

While the logistics industry has traditionally leaned on seasonality to understand fluctuations in the market, that strategy doesn’t seem to be working anymore. 

“If we have learned anything over the past year, it is the fact we cannot apply pre-pandemic patterns to the current freight environment just yet,” said Zach Strickland, director of Freight Market Intelligence at FreightWaves.

This also applies to reefer carriers ⁠— a sector that is more...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/reefer-capacity-remains-tight-how-to-optimize-available-trailers

FreightWaves Classics: Trucking companies’ names range from A to Z (Chapter 10)

A Boparai Transport truck hauls freight for one of its customers. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry began in the late 1970s. Congress passed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 and it was signed into law by President Carter on July 1, 1980. This ended 45 years of onerous regulation by the federal Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC).

One of the most dramatic changes that occurred due to deregulation was the virtual explosion in the number of trucking firms. From 1980 to 1990, the number of licensed carriers doubled – from fewer than 20,000 to more than...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-trucking-companies-names-range-from-a-to-z-chapter-10