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Quantix has named longtime executive Nate Gesse as its next chief executive officer, marking the next phase of the chemical logistics provider’s turnaround following the completion of a lender restructuring. Quantix focuses on the chemical sector, providing bulk transportation, warehousing, rail transloading, import and export logistics, managed transportation and supply chain services through a network of more than 80 U.S. locations. The company has spent the past several years broadening its capabilities, including integrating CLX Logistics into its managed transportation business and investing in new transload facilities, warehouse capacity, fleet management technology and automation initiatives.

Replace the device with a compliant ELD from the registered list before September 8, 2026. Two of today’s devices also carry “iosix” in the name. There is no bar on a company whose ELD was pulled for failing the technical spec from filling out a fresh self-certification form the next morning, under the same LLC or a new one, and receiving a fresh ELD identifier for a device running the same firmware that just failed.

Built to help truck drivers manage critical business tasks while driving, AVA allows carriers to search the live load board, check rate competitiveness and initiate broker negotiations without ever looking away from the road. The assistant operates entirely hands-free through natural voice commands, delivering spoken, real-time responses directly inside the cab. AVA integrates multiple administrative and logistics tasks into a single conversation, allowing drivers to search and book loads, analyze market rates and route fuel logistics.

An El Paso jury has awarded $104 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) and one of its drivers, concluding they were responsible for a fatal crash that killed co-driver Orlando Robles in 2020. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Robles’ family. “We want to take a moment to address the recent jury verdict concerning the tragic accident involving two of our drivers.

The long-awaited proposed changes in a set of EPA heavy-duty truck regulations that loosely is referred to as “the NoX rule,” because its provisions are aimed at reducing emissions of that pollutant, were released by the agency Thursday as it declared the revised standards will not bring any changes to the cost of truck manufacturing. But the agency said there would be a small reduction in the earlier projections on the reduction in NoX coming from its rule as a result of the changes in other parts of the proposal.The EPA said it believes the amended rule would retain 90% of the NoX reductions that were first called for in the 2023 Final Rule that is now proposed for revision. Need time to read the whole thing The 477-page NPRM was long enough that the group that might stand to be the most obvious beneficiary of changes in the rule was cautious in declaring a big victory for their members.“The Engine Manufacturers Association looks forward to reviewing the proposal in greater detail and continuing to work constructively with EPA to ensure the final rule supports regulatory certainty and practical implementation for manufacturers and our customers,” the trade group said in its prepared statement published after the EPA released the NPRM.

In a July 7 interview with Fox News, Tom Homan, who holds the role of Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that federal authorities are working to identify and crack down on unqualified truck drivers, but he said that the effort is hampered by resistance from states with Democratic party administrations. “We’re trying to get all this information we can. And we’ve got a lot of it.

Broadcom will make ASIC processors to run across multiple generations of Apple products. The deal is expected to exceed $30 billion and lead to the production of more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips, including wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products, according to the release. Supply shortages have included advanced semiconductors and memory chips.

The truck involved in the crash is the lessor’s. The reason that pass has held is that the law of negligent entrustment in the rental context was built for a different transaction, and it has been doing work it was never designed for. A leasing company that hands fifty tractors to a carrier is in possession of the carrier’s federal identifier, which means the carrier’s entire public safety record is one query from the desk where the lease is signed.