As we close out our 100th year, we reflect on where we have been and where we are going. The entrepreneurial spirit Jim Devine embraced in 1923 when founding Devine & Son Trucking Co., Inc. remains with us today....
LET’S TALK TURKEY
To satisfy America's Thanksgiving demand, roughly 46 million turkeys are shipped during the month of November. That number equates to 26,000 refrigerated full truckloads of turkey moving across the country. WOW! So, if...
REMEMBER THESE TWO?
We featured Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench a few years back. In 2016, Wanda sent a text with Thanksgiving dinner details to a number she thought belonged to her grandson. The number actually belonged to then 17 year old...
LAS VEGAS LIGHTS
The Oakland Athletics are getting ever closer to a new home in Las Vegas. The owners of the thirty Major League Baseball teams voted unanimously to approve the team's move. The City of Oakland has not given up hope and...
BACK TO BUSINESS
The proposed A's stadium and development project at Howard Terminal created acrimony between the Port of Oakland and industry stakeholders. We lost ground and confidence during that controversy, but now that the...
NAME THAT PART
Do you know what this part is? Hint, it is something used in truck or container transportation. Play "Name That Part" on our Facebook page. Click here to be directed to our page and place your guess. Good luck!
EAST COAST HEATING UP
The rhetoric coming from the International Longshore Association (ILA) leadership is heating up the closer we get to 2024. The current contract governing 45,000 longshore workers on the US East and Gulf Coasts is set...
1923
Since we are recognizing our 100th this year, we have become fascinated by other experiences involving 1923. Here is one: George de Urioste was always intrigued by the story of his grandfather's 1923 Hudson Speedster,...
CARB LAWSUITS PILE UP
In addition to the lawsuit filed by the California Trucking Association (CTA) against the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Advanced Clean Fleet (ACF) rule, the Western States Trucking Association (WSTA) has also...
NEWS ON AB5
The California Trucking Association (CTA) was joined by the Owner Operator Independent Driver Association (OOIDA) in its lawsuit against California law AB5. As a refresher, AB5 seeks to squash entrepreneurialism by...
TRUCKING DELIVERS
The trucking industry is honored to deliver the National Christmas Tree. This year, the tree came from the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia and made stops at nineteen communities along the way to the West...
TRUCKING DELIVERS
The trucking industry is also honored to provide the transportation to Wreaths Across America. Each year more than 390 motor carriers deliver more than 525 truckloads of wreaths to more than 3,100 locations in all 50...