(Natural News) American transportation and logistics giant Ryder System Inc, commonly known as Ryder, has announced that it will be laying off 801 employees after the company lost work at a factory in Austin, Texas. A total of 801 Ryder employees at the Applied Material site, a semiconductor plant in Austin, will lose their jobs. […]

(Natural News) South American Beef, Inc., a frozen meats importer based out of West Des Moines, Iowa, has filed a petition with the Southern District Court of Iowa to receive Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. The company was founded in 1999 and sold products under vendor brands as well as its own Prairie Natural brand. Its […]

(Natural News) The government of Mexico and officials from the country’s trucking industry have proposed using National Guard troops to patrol vital freight corridors and prevent criminals from stealing precious cargo. Criminal organizations in Mexico regularly target tractor-trailers. According to the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection (SSCP), there were nearly 1,200 reported cargo theft incidents […]

(Natural News) The Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and Southeast regions of the United States face an impending diesel collapse as supplies reach the lowest ever levels for this time of year. There is only a 25-day supply of the industrial fuel in storage, we are told. And at least one fuel supply logistics company has had to […]

(Natural News) Small business truckers who rely on CoreFund Capital for factoring their accounts receivable are now struggling to stay in business following the abrupt closure of the company. Factoring companies purchase outstanding invoices from companies with slower-paying customers to provide them with immediate cash flow. CoreFund offers same-day factoring to trucking companies throughout the […]

(Natural News) A Supreme Court decision may force over 70,000 truck owner-operators in California to stop driving, creating another choke point in the already stressed West Coast logistics networks. The AB5 law restricts the use of independent contractors and will soon be enforced against the trucking industry after the court declined to hear their appeal. […]

(Natural News) As if we all needed something else to add to our worries, a potentially catastrophic situation is emerging that threatens to wipe out the entire supply of diesel engine oil across the United States, leaving the country with no diesel engine oil until 2023. This isn’t merely a rumor: We’ve confirmed this is […]

(Natural News) Something strange is going on at one of America’s largest truck stop and travel center chains, which was just told by North America’s largest railroad that it must drastically reduce rail shipments of diesel and diesel exhaust fuel (DEF) or else face embargoes. Shameek Konar, the CEO of Pilot Flying J truck stops […]

(Natural News) The uncontrollable surge in oil prices is starting to limit the ability of truckers to do their job, leading to more inflation. Data collected by the Associated Press shows that diesel prices have increased by approximately 70 percent since last year. This has severely impacted the ability of many truck companies to do their work, […]

(Natural News) In order to get food from farm to fork, and consumer goods of all kinds from factory to retail store, big-rig trucks must constantly traverse the country. What happens, though, when truckers can no longer get the diesel and diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) they need to keep their trucks running? This is a […]