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Business
Fr8Hub opens digital brokerage for cross-border freight
The freight-matching platform pairs shippers in Mexico and the U.S. (to and from border cities) with available carriers and drivers. The platform also provides load tracking for shipments coming into and out of Mexico via telematics and GPS integration.
May 14, 2019
Business
J.B. Hunt opens new operations office in Mexico
The fleet giant has operated in Mexico for more than 25 years and has a presence in Mexico City, Guadalajara, San Luis Potosi and Monterrey.
May 3, 2019
Business
U.S. Xpress sells its stake in cross-border trucking subsidiary
U.S. Xpress says its cross-border business brings in about $50 million in annual revenue, but its impact on profit is “insignificant.”
January 23, 2019
Business
First cross-border Mexican fleet talks challenges, standards of operating in U.S.
Olympic Transport, a 140-truck Monterrey, Mexico-based fleet that’s operated in cross-border operations since 2007, says that despite stigmas of Mexican-domiciled fleets among U.S. carriers and operators, Mexican fleets in the DOT’s cross-border program are no less safe than those at U.S. and Canadian operations.
December 5, 2018
Channel 19
Cabotage across the pond: How deregulatory moves in the EU sparked backlash
And: More intel following last week’s report on cabotage-related violations and what some watchers see as U.S. employers gaming the international-hauls and visa system for profit from less expensive drivers, particularly in big intrastate markets along the Southern border.
November 7, 2018
Business
Cabotage rules enforcement spike ongoing from Southern border areas
Federal investigators have found violations of cabotage rules by U.S. companies and foreign drivers otherwise engaged in cross-border trucking operations. Those rules prevent foreign nationals in the U.S. on B-1 business-visitor visas from competing with U.S. truckers on loads moving point to point in the United States.
October 29, 2018
Business
NAFTA replacement would give U.S. the ability to limit cross-border trucking program
Check out the details of the newly announced United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal, and stay in the know with Overdrive.
October 1, 2018
Business
Court sides with DOT in cross-border trucking case, allowing Mexican carriers to continue U.S. operation
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Teamsters Union challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s cross-border trucking program. FMCSA in January 2015 opened the U.S. operating authority application process to all Mexican carriers, prompting the Teamsters’ court challenge.
July 7, 2017
Business
U.S. accepts Mexico’s truck inspection standards
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced this week it now accepts Mexico’s criteria for annual inspection of trucks domiciled there after concluding its inspection standards were comparable to the United States.
March 18, 2016
Business
DOT expands Mexican-U.S. border freight zones in Texas, New Mexico
The commercial border zone expansion will give Mexican-domiciled and U.S.-domiciled carriers and drivers a bigger zone to pick up and drop freight near El Paso, along with making some New Mexico-based crossings officially codified as cross-border zones.
February 23, 2016
Business
Teamsters hit FMCSA with lawsuit over move to open border for Mexican carriers
The Teamsters’ lawsuit alleges that FMCSA’s report to Congress — on which it based its decision to open the border to all Mexican-domiciled carriers — “is arbitrary and capricious.”
March 11, 2015
Business
Hours-of-service frustrations, CSA concerns make their way into Foxx’s highway funding visit to House
In the midst of the highway funding talk, lawmakers took the opportunity to air their concerns to DOT head Anthony Foxx about hours-of-service rules, cross-border trucking, CSA and more.
February 12, 2015
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