Total Quality Logistics, the second-largest freight brokerage firm in North America, just announced that it’s “expanding its presence in St. Louis, investing $370,000 and creating 85 new jobs.” With this expansion, Total Quality Logistics will get aid from the Missouri Works program, “a tool that helps companies expand and retain workers by providing access to capital through withholdings or tax credits for job creation.” Read more…
Building from the “Phase 2” greenhouse gas standards established in 2016, the EPA “is proposing a new and stronger set of greenhouse standards for heavy-duty vehicles for model years 2027 and 2032.” Coming hot on the heels of the EPA’s new national clean air standards to decrease smog-and-soot forming emissions, trucking professionals are decrying the move as a “regulatory blitz on small-business truckers.” Read more…
With 16,800 trailer units having been booked during March, preliminary trailer orders “decreased sequentially and were lower against longer-term comparisons,” though overall demand is solid, according to ACT Research. Jennifer Mcnealy, director of commercial vehicle market research and publications at ACT Research, claims: “orders pulling back in March is a month earlier than normal seasonality would suggest, but near record-level order backlogs are easy to point to in explaining away the earlier-than-expected deceleration.” Read more…
