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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

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PepsiCo Plans Layoffs as It Looks to Finish Elliott Talks

PepsiCo plans to review its North American supply chain as it wraps up negotiations with Elliott, according to sources. The company also warned workers of incoming “structural changes.”

December 8, 2025
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsAutonomous

Detmar Logistics to Start Autonomous Ops With Aurora in '26

Last-mile logistics specialist Detmar will use Aurora’s in-house Peterbilt tractors to ship the proppant 20 hours a day on public and private roads in the Permian Basin oil and gas field.

December 8, 2025
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyLogistics

US Says China Is Meeting Trade Commitments

Bloomberg previously reported that after a series of orders placed in late October — the first of this season — China’s purchases of American soybeans appeared to have stalled. 

December 8, 2025
GovernmentBusinessEquipmentLogistics

Trump Unveils $12 Billion Aid for Farmers

The aid comes amid rising frustration among farmers on the slow pace of Chinese purchases, which Beijing clamped down on earlier this year in retaliation for Trump’s tariff barrage. 

December 8, 2025
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

US, India Work to Mend Ties After Tariff Rift

India-U.S. relations have also soured because of Trump’s assertions he brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan during the conflict in May and used trade as a bargaining chip.

December 8, 2025
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

China Trade Surplus Booms to $1T Despite US Export Drop-Off

While China's shipments to the U.S. plummeted 29% in November, strong growth in sales to regions like the European Union and Africa more than offset the slump.

December 8, 2025
BusinessLogistics

CRST Posting Gains in Tough Market, CEO Says

While the protracted freight market slump has yet to turn around, CRST's dedicated truckload business is having its best year in three years, CEO Mike Gannon says.

December 5, 2025
GovernmentBusinessLogisticsGlobal Freight

Dow's Transportation Average Blazes 9-Day Winning Streak

Equity traders looking for signs that a blistering stock market advance is set to continue may take their cue from the companies that move goods across America’s roads, rails and waterways.

December 5, 2025
BusinessEquipmentSafetyLogistics

Knight-Swift Truck Driver Delivers Capitol Christmas Tree

Knight-Swift truck driver Michael Porter spent nearly a month hauling the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree 3,700 miles, culminating in the tree's delivery to the West Lawn of the Capitol on Nov. 21.

December 4, 2025
GovernmentBusinessLogisticsTCA

Texas DOT Studies New Interstate From Gulf Coast to Panhandle

The upgrade would deliver “significant statewide benefits,” including faster travel times, safer roads and more efficiency for commercial freight carriers, the feasability study says.

December 4, 2025