Giant, rattling monstrosities on 300 wheels won’t be such a habitual sight on Montana’s interstates after a judge passed an injunction against shipping over two hundred colossal, Korean-made pieces of oilfield equipment to Canada. Such megaloads require specialized and incredibly large trucks to move, accompanied by a full service and police cortege; since they’re far [...]

United States maritime transportation is governed by the Jones Act – a law that stipulates that marine shipping between domestic ports must be conducted on ships built in the U.S. and staffed by American crews. Recently, however, there has been speculation that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to seek a waiver to the [...]

An underground art collective in Kiev, Ukraine has drawn the ire of the country’s government and triggered a manhunt after posting a prank video where its members fry eggs on top of the Eternal Flame at a WWII memorial. Patriotically-inclined citizens were outraged by the stunt, taking it as a sign of disrespect towards veterans [...]

There is a second oil boom taking place in Texas – one was brought on not by discovery of easily-extracted oil, as in previous decades, but by improvements in extraction technology. In recent years, public consciousness has become aware of “fracking” – a technology for extracting fossil fuels that involves pumping high-pressure water into the [...]

Australia is a mystical land of exoticism and wonder, where winter is summer and mammals lay eggs. Car shipping, however, is fraught with the same issues and pitfalls that it is here, which is why we have written and posted a new article on the Universal Auto Transport main website about this topic. If you’d [...]

Somewhere between New Jersey‘s Linden airport and Newark, a container load filled with almost 700 beer kegs was relieved of it’s sudsy load. Given that the container was found, sans the 689 kegs and it’s associated beerful goodness, on Sunday, we can assume that some rediculous deals on kegs of Peroni should start to appear [...]

Resulting from a recent agreement between the US and Mexico, it looks like we can expect to see routine flow of transportation trucks whose routes originate in Mexico. Bruno Ferrari, the interestingly named economy minister in Mexico, said the current tariffs would be reduced by 50% between March and June, when the agreement is scheduled [...]

It’s not the best-kept secret in the world that natural resources seldom make a country more democratic. Oil, in particular, seems to be a remarkable fertilizer for despots and kleptocrats, and a good amount of the money goes to fund people who like to find creative uses for passenger planes. In the midst of periodic [...]

After years of wrangling and negotiations, one of the planks of NAFTA is nearing implementation – rules that would allow Mexican trucks, driven by Mexican truckers, on American highways. A three-year pilot program will seek to address emissions standards, vehicle safety and driver training in American traffic law. The rules would allow Mexican vehicles to [...]

A large naval battle is currently taking place around Long Beach, California. For the past two years, ship-building conglomerate Gambol Marine Industries has been trying to establish a shipyard on a portion of Terminal Island – a major hub that’s owned and managed by the Long Beach port authorities. The proposal sounds like welcome news, [...]