Transport Topics

J.B. Hunt has partnered with autonomous vehicle developer Waymo to move freight with self-driving trucks in Texas. Through the limited program, Waymo’s autonomous trucking unit, Waymo Via, will move l...

11 Juni 20212min

XPO Logistics has moved up the potential timeline to complete a spinoff of its logistics operations into a separate company, GXO Logistics. XPO in a June 9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Comm...

10 Juni 20212min

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt is stepping down at the end of the month, saying, “Fifteen years is long enough for any one person to serve on a board like this.” Sumwalt,...

9 Juni 20212min

The United States government announced yesterday it had recovered the majority of the ransom paid to the hackers of Colonial Pipeline. The company paid $4.4 million in response to the cyberattack, whi...

8 Juni 20212min

Democratic members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee unveiled a $547 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill on Friday. The majority of the funding outlined in the b...

7 Juni 20213min

As leaders from Canadian National and Kansas City Southern promote their proposed multibillion-dollar merger, some of their customers are voicing concerns. The American Chemistry Council, a trade asso...

4 Juni 20213min

On Tuesday, news broke that JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, had fallen victim to a cyberattack that hobbled its operations. Yesterday, the company announced it had made “significant progres...

3 Juni 20213min

A little more than three weeks after the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, the meat supply chain has been targeted. A cyberattack on JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, has forced the shutd...

2 Juni 20213min