National Transportation Institute CEO Leah Shaver says drivers “will feel disrespected if they see that their time is not valued as it pertains to their paycheck.”
Amazon.com Inc. bought Whole Foods Market Inc. on Aug. 28, 2017, for $13.7 billion, following up with changes to the grocery brand.
For the last day of Global Supply Chain Week, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the impact February’s winter storm had on Texas ports and how recovery is going with spring around the corner.
Jefferies senior analyst Randy Giveans outlines why it is now a particularly good time to buy container-shipping stocks.
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative’s road map to sustainability includes financial, social and environmental sustainability factors.
Today’s container market chaos underscores the need for enforceable ocean contracts as opposed to loose agreements, argues consultant Tom Craig.
Ocean Audit’s Steve Ferreira and AutoZone’s Jack Conaghan discuss how beneficial cargo owners should strategize contracts and containers during 2021.
Chinese New Year overlapped with Presidents Day, Valentine’s Day and the storms hitting across the country in February, creating the perfect storm of disruptions.
Lina Jasutiene, managing director and founder of Recoupex and a former lawyer for the shipping line MSC, explains what shippers can do to successfully pursue damage claims. She talks to Steve Ferreira, the CEO of Ocean Audit, during a fireside chat at FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.
Brian Whitley’s airfreight business has been growing rapidly, but the events of 2020 forced him to adapt to quickly changing conditions.
You need to put yourself out there, be realistic and be patient to build a niche audience, says Tom Augenthaler, founder of 551 Media. “It doesn’t happen overnight.”
HSBC global economist James Pomeroy says we won’t be buying all the one-off big-ticket items we did during the pandemic’s first year.
Brian Laung Aoaeh of REFASHIOND Ventures discusses the opportunities for venture capital seeking to find the next big thing in supply chain technology in a fireside chat at FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.
Spot rates hit record high; KeepTruckin caught up in crash fallout; Workhorse loses contract; Amazon vs Walmart
On this episode of stackd, host Adam Robinson talks to Michael Southworth about how market volatility can be circumvented if you know the right tools to use.
CBP seized the Hong Kong-bound corn flakes frosted with cocaine at an express consignment facility near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Even though Britain is no longer a part of the European Union, it still does business with its neighboring countries. In this fireside chat, Richard Greening and Walter Van der Meiren discuss the work that needs to be done to keep trade seamless between the U.K. and the rest of Europe.
Your weekly fuel report has arrived!
With no end in sight to the container crisis, Zach Strickland and Anthony Smith discuss how ocean shipping woes will continue to create ripple effects in the freight markets.
The mismatched timing of payments is always a challenge for freight forwarders and brokers. Trying to explain the process to outside auditors and financing firms is often even more difficult, but Kevin Hill and Amna Shah share the right way to handle this process.
“This is the greatest era to put out content on LinkedIn,” says Gary Vaynerchuk.
The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.
Other athletes may look at sports-related or media-related investments. But Kelvin Beachum, an offensive tackle, is deep into tech startups.
On this episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week, Dooner and The Dude talk to ocean shipping experts about the steps to manage risky situations.
Korby Keeney discusses how shippers navigate extreme weather events.
“Importers are exhausted” and foundation change is necessary, says Flexport’s Sanne Manders.
In a wide-ranging keynote during the FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week, former U.S. Senator Bob Corker expressed concern for America’s global status.
While transportation remains a male-dominated industry, the share of female professionals in some modes is rising.
This Carrier Rate Report – presented in partnership with SkyBitz – is the first installment of a quarterly publication. This report provides a look back at 2020 and a forecast […]
The societal shutdowns of 2020 had ripple effects in every industry. Rob Benedict breaks down how the energy industry was impacted and has recovered since the start of COVID-19.
On this episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week, Dooner and The Dude talk about the future of renewable fuels and the complicated relationships between chemicals and freight.
TMSforce executives Tim Sensenig and Rick Gonzalez explain the differences between a 3PL and a 4PL.
Worldwide Oilfield Machine’s co-founder unveils her strategy for a healthy company, no matter if the times are good or bad.
The oil and gas upstream industry went through a wild ride in 2020 that continues in 2021. A leading analyst of its fortunes joins GSCW to talk about it.
On this special episode of Put That Coffee Down for FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week, Kevin Hill talks to the economic director of Laredo, Texas, about selling your city to potential companies.
Can bitcoin be used as a recruiting tool for freight companies? Plus, meme stocks, Robinhood drama, Doge and more
The founder of autonomous driving company Locomation talks about the future of that technology and the challenges it needs to overcome to make significant progress in reaching its promise.
Several significant steps on the road to electric vehicles have occured just in the past few months.
High shipping costs are hitting transportation budgets hard.
Dooner and The Dude are live with another special session of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week. In this episode, they talk to retail leaders about the importance of well-functioning supply chains to keep up with the speed of consumer packaged goods.
Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and Kathy Wengel, executive vice president and chief global supply chain officer for Johnson & Johnson, discuss key trends that have emerged in the global supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic as suppliers, manufacturers and distributors collaborated to ensure critical supplies were deployed all over the world.
On this episode of stackd, hostAdam Robinsondetails how one freight company is using shared truckload technology to map out the future for sustainable freight.
John Hoffman, senior research fellow, Food Protection & Defense Institute, discusses ways to successfully navigate the complex food and agriculture supply chain.
Jonathan Kingsman wrote a book that uses as its jumping-off point the view of the market first published in 1979 in the classic book “The Merchants of Grain.” He talks about how much agricultural markets have shifted since then.
Controlant helped Iceland reduce its pharmaceutical waste to 0.5% after the H1N1 pandemic.
Employees aren’t the only ones working from home during the pandemic as reshoring gains increasing popularity among U.S. companies.
This case study outlines how MeMD’s telehealth solution met all objectives while delivering nearly $34,000 in savings.
Dogs in logistics, plus market crunches shippers, a look at Global Supply Chain Week, moving a house with a semi and more
On this special episode of Great Quarter, Guys for FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week, Andrew Cox and co-host Kevin Hill talk about productivity during tough times.
Kris Bjorson, JLL’s executive brokerage director, discusses the market for B-to-B last-mile real estate.
Your weekly fuel report has arrived!
Warehousing has changed more in the past five years than in the previous 70 years. Chris Riemann, managing director of Deloitte Consulting, and A.K. Schultz, co-founder and CEO of SVT Robotics, discuss the role of automation in this warehousing revolution and how organizations must move their supply chains forward to compete during the e-commerce boom and the spike in online ordering because of the COVID pandemic.
Quarantining patterns during the pandemic have spiked meal delivery rates.
The manager of a small U.S. trucking company recounts the harrowing experience of a ransomware attack and the troubling breach of its transportation management system.
Echo Global Logistics CEO Doug Waggoner talks about the future of logistics and the role of technology in pushing the transportation industry forward.
Dooner and The Dude catch up with Thomas Healy from Hyliion during the first episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week.
Jennifer Bisceglie discusses how Interos ingests over 100,000 different types of data feeds to map out a company’s extended supply chain and monitors weather and world events to prepare companies for any ripple effects in the defense supply chain.
Learn how Lytx can navigate the regulatory landscape.
The insights within this paper are curated by the market experts and backed by data from FreightWaves’ SONAR platform.
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Take a look at the 8 keynote speakers of Global Supply Chain Week.
NASA lands on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? to talk about the deep space logistics behind landing Perseverance on Mars
Steve Ferreira talks container losses, carrier assets and freight rates on this episode of Navigate B2B.
This white paper shares what happens when time-critical shipments are mismanaged or lost, and how to solve this devastating problem.
Also on the podcast this week: The soaring price of diesel and the impact from the Texas cold snap
The winter weather that crippled the Southern Plains is hitting earnings for some companies. Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent discuss what it means for freight.
Survey findings show less than a third of drivers are fully satisfied with their electronic logging device (ELD) providers.
Kyle Taylor and Luke Falasca talk to K-Ratio’s Kyle Lintner about the way markets are responding to major disruptive events.
Anthony Smith and Zach Strickland explore how quickly supply chains are shifting in response to current events.
Olipop’s Ben Goodwin on the logistics behind building a beverage brand Olipop, and the latest freight news on the podcast
Andrew Cox explores how tariffs and trade policies can impact the retail landscape in the United States.
Japan is the top nation in fleet value despite China taking the lead in shipbuilding.
Since the federal government started regulating the number of hours a truck driver can legally drive in a day, requiring either paper logs or higher-tech records, some motor carriers and truckers have devised ways to skirt the rules by falsifying drivers’ log books.
Will Biden team up with Big Tech on vaccines? Spot rates thaw but South doesn’t. The logistics of Gorilla Glue, and more.
Andrew Cox and Seth Holm detail Ancora Advisors’ attempts to reroute asset-light trucking and logistics company
Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent discuss the top headlines and get an update on how two consecutive winter storms are impacting shipping around the nation.
In the first episode of the FreightWaves podcast stackd, host Adam Robinson tells you how to build out your arsenal of digital tools to maximize success.
Andrew Cox explores what technology warehouses are implementing on this episode of Point of Sale.
The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.
What makes a lead qualified? Kevin Hill and Chris Jolly talk to the COO of ‘zembles about how to know when a lead is a good one.
Ice storms turn deadly for drivers, state of vaccine logistics, can an automated trailer change intermodal, more
This white paper, brought to you by FreightWaves and Uptake, explores ways that data and technology can revolutionize your maintenance processes. Saving you time, money and protecting your drivers from harm.
A sweater can travel 3,000 miles for a few cents by sea — but it hasn’t always been that cheap.
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On this episode of Point of Sale, Andrew Cox shares why he thinks the retail battle has shifted to a fight between omnichannel and e-commerce.
How to be a truckerprenuer plus handling the west coast port crisis ’21
On podcast, Amit Mehrotra of Deutsche Bank looks over the reports for the last quarter of last year
In this episode of Navigate B2B, Steve Ferreira talks with a celebrated industry expert about his opinions on the future of the retail landscape.
From truck parts to fuel cells, business leaders face challenges in getting critical components and meeting customer expectations for delivery.
Jeremy Reymer, the founder and CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Hayden Cardiff, the founder and CEO of Idelic, about the importance of safety and compliance for driver retention.
In the inaugural Point Of Sale episode, host Andrew Cox talks to an industry expert about his belief that returns are not inevitable and that every return is a money-losing operation.
Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent break down today’s top headlines and learn where Uber Freight is doing things right on this episode of Midday Market Update.
52% of adults in the U.S. plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, with $21.8 billion in projected sales in the name of love.
Dooner and The Dude talk to Chad Brueck about how CRST is ensuring secure COVID-19 vaccine delivery in this session of FreightWaves’ Health & Pharma Supply Chain Summit.
Dooner and The Dude learn how ArcBest has adapted during the pandemic to help deliver supplies in this session of FreightWaves’ Health & Pharma Supply Chain Summit.
A recent history of notable closures and bankruptcies.
Get caught up on every session from the FreightWaves Health & Pharma Supply Chain Summit here.
3,140 fleet failures in 2020, woeful state of yard management, crash causing koalas, more in the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter
Andrew Cox and Seth Holm debate the big news in the retail space and compare which logistics companies have the best drop-and-hook practices.
