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Hasty US exit from Europe could drive allies away from American arms, RAND says
A rapid, uncoordinated U.S. military drawdown from Europe could push key NATO allies further away from American weapons over the long term, according to a new RAND study, a shift the authors say would hurt the U.S. defense industrial base. RAND released the report, “Anticipating Allies’ Responses to U.S. Retrenchment from Europe,” on Wednesday. It examines how France, Germany, Poland…
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Port scheduling outage ‘resolved,’ but fleets could face fees
Appointments-system outage at Oakland, L.A. container terminals risks demurrage fee pileupAccording to an advisory from the operations team at the TraPac terminal at the Port of Oakland, an outage affecting its eModal appointments scheduling system Tuesday and parts of Wednesday "has been resolved" as of roughly midday Wednesday, Sept. 9. The…
Pentagon codifies fitness standards across branches
The Pentagon has codified sweeping changes to military fitness requirements, some of which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last fall. The new regulations, published Aug. 31, spell out testing timelines, standards for troops in combat arms specialties, guidelines for pregnancy and postpartum fitness and establish tracking mechanisms for testing results…
A new record high: Diesel costs surge, rates bust recent slump
Spot rates might be up by almost a dollar a mile from the same time last year, but a new all-time record high for diesel prices during the most recent week is keeping trucking companies’ profits suppressed.During the week leading up to Labor Day, diesel’s national average surged 36.8 cents…
Defense startup’s AI aims to make every munition count
When Andy Markoff deployed to Mosul with the U.S. Marine Raiders in 2016, one of the challenges they faced as they pushed ISIS fighters back along a hundred-mile front was that they never had enough munitions, he said.Markoff explained that calling in air support was an effective way to clear…
Driver busted with $3.8M worth of cocaine in ’empty’ trailer
Traffic stop leads to cocaine bustA truck driver who claimed to be pulling an empty trailer from Memphis, Tennessee, to Indianapolis was found by Indiana police to be hauling more than the sailboat fuel he claimed.On Sept. 6, an Indiana State Police Criminal Interdiction Unit conducted a traffic stop on…
Drumroll, please … Meet your Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists
We're at a dead sprint toward two of the biggest recognitions Overdrive makes annually, judges' naming of two Small Fleet Champs in the 3-10 and 11-30-truck divisions of the annual competition. Here, meet the semi-finalists, fleets that will be narrowed to four to make the trip to Nashville, Tennessee, for the…