Focusing on international shippers and freight agents, the US Customs Service has established a security program to manage the huge share of goods that move by surface modes. The effort has won widespread support from shippers, carriers and forwarders as it focuses at the point where government oversight and commercial supply chains intersect. The Customs-Trade [...] Read Full Story
When buying a UN specification drum, the entire design of the drum and all its components (heads, ring, gasket, bolt, nut, plugs) are defined in the certification testing. All of these elements are incorporated into a drum type that must meet a test standard, and thus, users cannot alter or exchange any of these components [...] Read Full Story
Last month, we erroneously reported that 97% of the DOT inspections were the result of employee complaints, and to this, the DOT (US - Dept. of Transportation) contacted us to correct this number. In fact, less than 5% of inspections are generated from complaints. The vast majority of inspections are generated from numerous databases including [...] Read Full Story