Ocean carriers are actively exploring and testing alternative fuel options to power their vessels. In a case of “everything old is new again,” Hapag-Lloyd and ONE are testing wind propulsion units on their container ships. The sails would […]
TransForce is petitioning Mattel to establish a new career path for Barbie, a Truck Driver. We agree. Girls should be exposed to the trucking industry and transportation in general. There many different avenues and careers available to women…including […]
Meet the world’s small island, Just Room Enough, on the St. Lawrence River near the US-Canada border. The island is 3,300 sqft, about the size of a tennis court, and is home to a small cottage, a tree […]
2023 marked our 100th year…a milestone of which we remain quite proud. So, we are going to do one more salute to 1923. Here is our first truck, which was used to haul lumber and agricultural products within […]
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 […]
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 you went to the grocery […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 friction looks to be behind us, […]
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 […]
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 to expire on […]
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, a custom car […]
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 filed two lawsuits. One against CARB […]
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 reclassifying all independent truck drivers as employees. […]
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 Lawn of […]
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 states. Volunteers […]
In the 2020’s, we saw the expansion and upgrade of our electric yard goat fleet. The yard goat is the perfect application for electrification. Goats operate in a closed, dense circuit amplifying their environmental benefits. They have easy […]
We like Halloween at Devine. We dress up and laugh at each other and ourselves. Heck, you have to be a little bit crazy to be in logistics, and we let our crazy show on Halloween. This year, […]
SSA Terminal in Oakland has announced it will increase the Extended Hour Gate Fee from $35 to $40 effective January 1, 2024. The terminal cites rising operational and labor costs as the reason for the increase.
A recent research study shows congestion on US highways cost the trucking industry $94.6B in added costs, 1.27B hours of lost productivity and 6.7B gallons of wasted fuel. WOW!