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This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California's roads, but drivers are pushing back
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (1216+ words) A Bay Area startup is trying to reinvent the semitruck by making the gas-guzzling giants electric, autonomous and designed for efficiency. Humble Robotics, founded last year in San Francisco, has raised $24 million to develop a cabless freight truck that lacks…...
Letters to the Editor: Improving supply chain infrastructure is key to mitigating disruption
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (278+ words) To the editor: Supply chain disruptions don't stop at the docks. As the Los Angeles Times reported, the price of fuel for cargo ships nearly doubled in L. A. over the past two months and the high prices are expected to continue…...
Greenlane Expands its Electric Truck Charging Network into the Texas Freight Corridor
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) Greenlane is expanding its electric truck charging network into Texas. Learn how this commercial EV charging infrastructure serves the I-45. Read more! Greenlane Expands its Electric Truck Charging Network into the Texas Freight Corridor This is read by an automated voice....
Mexico Industrial Real Estate: IRG Portfolio Hits 3 M Sq Ft
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (24+ words) IRG expands its Mexico industrial real estate holdings to nearly 3 million square feet with its latest cross-border property investments. Get the details....
Frito-Lay to close San Bernardino County warehouse, lay off 247 employees
4+ mon, 18+ hour ago (433+ words) Frito-Lay, the snack company that makes Doritos and Cheetos, is laying off 247 employees and closing its facility in Rancho Cucamonga, the company confirmed Friday. The vast warehouse will shut down in June. Frito-Lay announced last summer that manufacturing operations at…...
Rare sheep are U. S. -Mexico border crossers, but they're hitting a sharp new obstacle
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1808+ words) JACUMBA WILDERNESS, Calif. On a dirt road in Imperial County leading toward the Mexico border, the tracks of rare wild sheep press into dusty tire tracks, amid jumbled boulders and spindly ocotillo. The white trucks and SUVs of the U. S. Border…...
Trump administration demands that Mexican crews operating trains in U. S. can speak English
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (582+ words) OMAHA'The Federal Railroad Administration has sent letters to two railroad operators demanding they make sure that Mexican crews can speak English and don't operate a train more than 10 miles inside the United States. A number of Mexican train crews who…...
Walmart's $115, 000 starting pay draws women to trucking amid industry shortage
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (880+ words) On a recent run, those drivers are Leslie Scott, 58, and Michelle Salikie, 69 " an unlikely duo in a country where fewer than one in 10 commercial truck drivers are women. People, Scott says, "are shocked when they see women up here. Especially…...
Plant closure will lead to hundreds of layoffs in Riverside
6+ mon, 5+ day ago (491+ words) The meat processing company JBS is closing a packing facility in Riverside and will lay off 374 employees, according to a notice from the California Employment Development Department. The closure comes as a limited cattle supply has led to record-high beef…...
California to revoke 17, 000 commercial driver's licenses issued to immigrants
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (592+ words) California will cancel 17, 000 commercial driver's licenses that had been issued to immigrants after officials said they extended beyond the date the drivers were allowed to work in the country " a violation of state law. California requires driver's licenses and work…...