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Borderlands Mexico: Truck driver salaries in Mexico averaging $423 a month in 2024

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Truck driver salaries in Mexico averaging $423 a month in 2024; Horizon Auto Logistics opens office in Veracruz, Mexico; LG Electronics opens $60M plant in Central Mexico; and Texas bridge project receives $80 million in federal funding.

Truck driver salaries in Mexico averaging $423 a month in 2024

Wages in Mexico’s professional cargo trucking industry averaged $423 a...

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Axle aims to empower trucking companies using big data

While digital highways are connecting more and more of the global supply chain — including linking every tractor-trailer in the U.S. to the internet — the founders of Axle said most trucking companies and logistics operators are still missing out on a wealth of data. 

“We noticed that transportation and trucking companies, everyone from carriers, broker, shippers, they just weren’t getting the full value of technology that was available,” Dhruv Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Axle, told...

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Breaker 1/9: What happened to CB radios?

Arguably no image is more closely associated with trucking than a driver with a CB radio in one hand and the steering wheel in the other as the truck roars down the highway.

Citizens band, or CB, radio, has been around since the 1940s but was popularized in the 1970s by movies like “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Breaker! Breaker!” and “Convoy.”

While CB radios are almost synonymous with the commercial trucking industry in the public imagination, trucking companies are not actually required by law to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-happened-to-cb-radios