Month: December 2025

Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Trump mulls scrapping USMCA as industry groups push for renewal; DP World opens Querétaro warehouse to support Mexico’s nearshoring boom; and East Coast Warehouse & Distribution launches first Texas operation. Trump mulls scrapping USMCA as… Continue reading Borderlands Mexico: Trump mulls scrapping USMCA as industry groups push for renewal 

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., told colleagues that law enforcement is making it difficult for illegal truck drivers to operate in her state. “While some states look the other way, my home state of Mississippi has tried to rein in this abuse in the trucking industry,” Hyde-Smith said in Senate floor speech on… Continue reading Mississippi sending illegal truckers to ICE

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with hundreds of senior executives at America’s largest trucking companies. Nearly all say they only recently discovered the massive influx of foreign drivers and motor carriers. Most assumed the trend was gradual; none realized it was exponential. Few had ever heard the term “non-domiciled CDL” until this summer… Continue reading How America’s trucking industry became a hellscape

Prasco’s new strategic collaboration with Frontier Scientific Solutions marks another example of how pharmaceutical companies are moving beyond traditional 3PL partnerships and opting instead to co-build logistics capabilities tailored specifically for high-risk, high-value products.  The announcement highlights a larger trend in the life-sciences supply chain: as products become more temperature-sensitive and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, manufacturers… Continue reading Prasco & Frontier’s tailored logistics: a pharma game-changer

When Cliff Bates stepped in to help turnaround an Arkansas trucking company in late 2022, he expected the familiar industry story of a down cycle that would eventually rebalance.  Instead, he uncovered what he describes as a “new ecosystem” of trucking — powered by fraudulent CDLs, English-language-proficiency (ELP) loopholes, and a massive wave of non-domiciled… Continue reading English-language crackdown exposes how cheap labor and CDL fraud are remaking trucking