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Truck rates have sagged a bit as truckload capacity continues to build in the first weeks of 2019, according to a report from DAT Solutions.

Allen Lund Co., La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., has promoted Todd Piccola in the Rochester, N.Y., office and Greg Babiarz in the Charlotte, N.C., office.

With the Trump administration shifting some federal employees away from the border to deal with increased illegal immigration, commercial shipments of produce from Mexico are taking longer to cross into the U.S.

A slight surplus of trucks was reported in several U.S. shipping districts, but truck rates increased in California in early April.

All agriculture haulers could be exempted from using electronic logging devices (ELD) if the latest version of the Agricultural Business Electronic Logging Device Exemption Act of 2018 advances through Congress.

Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.

Company says it will invest $3 million for upgrades to the facility formerly owned by Michigan farmer Mike Stamp.

The delays have stretched dangerously close to grain harvesting season, when barges need to carry wheat, soybeans and corn from throughout the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast for export.

The company posted a 12 percent drop in fiscal fourth- quarter profit as its trading and processing business continued to feel the effects of drought in the U.S. and a shortage of railcars.

Since farmers’ profits are dropping this year alongside crop prices, bridge-infrastructure needs have come into sharper focus.