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Several significant steps on the road to electric vehicles have occured just in the past few months.

The supply chain for electric vehicles has major pinch points in battery components and charging infrastructure.

From brick-and-mortar locations to online ordering Richard Simons oversees a vast empire with a goal of 12-hour delivery.

Berkshire Grey, which provides AI-enabled integrated robotic solutions for the supply chain, will get $413 million in cash.

MOBI CEO Chris Ballinger highlights the vast potential to be derived from vehicle information on distributed ledgers under shared standards.

Third-party sellers using the BigCommerce e-commerce platform can now integrate with Walmart.com, opening up new online avenues to sell their products.

Rak-Joon Choi, a vice president with American Tire Distributors, explains how blockchain technology can bring more efficiency and transparency to tire distribution and the larger supply chain during a Global Supply Chain Week fireside chat.

TruckLabs founder and CEO Daniel Burrows joins Kevin Hill, executive publisher at FreightWaves, to discuss fuel efficiency for trucks and post-COVID changes in the automotive supply chain.

The extreme cold and heavy snow dampened U.S. rail volumes last week.

Romeo Power CEO Lionel Selwood saw the component shortages coming for commercial vehicle batteries. Romeo hedged by buying on the open market.

It appears Google and J.B. Hunt envision that their joint effort will become an innovation platform to support the J.B. Hunt 360 marketplace.

Hyzon Motors CEO Craig Knight says China has a five-year lead in zero-emission fuel cells for commercial vehicles.

Lower battery prices and extraordinary technological innovation will change the driving relationship forever, Ken Washington says during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

Agent-based MODE will add a growthy in-house operation.

Localized flooding and roadblocks possible through early next week from Texas to Tennessee (with forecast video).

Trucking fleets that conduct only yearly reviews of driver records may miss signs of risky driver behavior that ultimately could put lives in jeopardy.

In today’s edition, we highlight the next-generation vehicle builder for the Postal Service and a unique trucking proposal from a consumer goods group.

It’s not just small and midsized importers that face massive contract rate hikes. Even the biggest shippers will feel the pain.

Postal Service chief defends his strategy to shift mail from planes to trucks despite the resulting longer delivery times.

The store’s opening is part of DHL unit’s focus on contactless transactions, social distancing, it says.

Greg Tuthill, chief commercial officer of SeaCube Containers, sizes up the market for refrigerated shipping containers during a fireside chat at FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week.

Borrowing pegged to inflated stock price may become a problem for Workhorse Group in the aftermath of missing out on the U.S. Postal Service contract.

George Washington Bridge approach in New Jersey tops the American Transportation Research Institute’s trucking bottleneck list for the third year in a row.

Although market conditions are improving for Trinity Industries (NYSE: TRN), the railcar lessor and rail equipment manufacturer anticipates persistent headwinds through the first half of 2021 as prospective customers take […]

FourKites’ Glenn Koepke discusses how and why collaboration among retailers, transportation providers and brokers enhances supply chain visibility.

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.

Naeem Zafar, co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, discusses ways to leverage data so the agriculture supply chain can make every grain harvest count.

Best Buy is shrinking its retail footprint in several locations as it moves to using stores for e-commerce order fulfillment operations.

Redwood’s Eric Rempel and Mike Reed shed light on the digital freight platforms and tools that will transform how shippers plan and execute their routing guide strategy in 2021.

Gary Berger and Patrick Jones speak with Fab Brasca regarding the hurdles and essential elements of successful digital transformations.

Ernie Manansala Jr., chief marketing officer at BRÈINFÚEL, talks about the obstacles facing startup CPG brands and the need for flexible warehousing space with Grant Langston, CEO of Warehouse Exchange.

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.

Zeta Smith, CEO of the seniors division in North America at Sodexo, explores some of the challenges leaders face during the pandemic and how COVID-19 has impacted senior communities.

A court case that could have implications for trucking has been decided in the Ninth Circuit. In it, the court ruled that employers could pay employees per diem in their regular pay.

A bad returns experience can turn off nearly three-quarters of consumers on a brand, so developing solutions to simplify this process are vital.

A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday vacated the Federal Railroad Administration’s May 2019 order on train crew size, saying the agency didn’t conduct an adequate public review prior to the order.

Hyliion will initially buy Peterbilt trucks to equip its Hypertruck ERX and sees fuel cells as an eventual option in to natural gas-powered generators.

The software platform could help restore “lifetime value” to the 9.5 million tons of furniture that end up in landfills each year.

Biden’s executive order seeks short-term and long-term review of critical supply chains.

John Hoffman, senior research fellow, Food Protection & Defense Institute, discusses ways to successfully navigate the complex food and agriculture supply chain.

Canadian health care logistics provider Andlauer will acquire most of pharmaceutical trucking firm Skelton Truck Lines for over $90 million – a valuation driven up by the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

The Rochelle Park, New Jersey-based company posted revenue of $63.8 million during the fourth quarter, an 8% decline from the same period last year.

Together for Safer Roads President David Braunstein discusses the potential Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan holds for safer freight movement.

Fuel card provider WEX Inc. continues to see gradual sequential improvement but at a pace below analysts’ expectations. The company’s fourth-quarter result was slightly below expectations and its first-quarter revenue guidance disappoints. Shares are off 4% in early trading.

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.

AgTC’s Peter Freidmann highlights the hurdles U.S. food exporters confront as they vie for containers to transport their goods.

A well-developed team that executes consistently and works well together creates leverage in a business like nothing else can.

COVID altered the way CPG retailers and manufacturers interacted with, and delivered products to, consumers, and it is unlikely to ever return to the old ways.

Controlant helped Iceland reduce its pharmaceutical waste to 0.5% after the H1N1 pandemic.

John Tyson, fourth-generation Tyson family member and chief sustainability officer at Tyson Foods, discusses sustainability strategies in protein systems and food supply chains.

Kuehne + Nagel will become the top global air and ocean freight management company when it completes its purchase of Hong Kong’s Apex Logistics International.

Truckers and trains will have to battle challenging winds returning to some western states (with forecast video).

The connection of these two platforms will empower Redwood customers with the ability to quote and book shipments in seconds, with reliable capacity.

In today’s edition, we highlight a big announcement by Daimler, significant money raised by an insurtech startup and another encouraging sign for the future.

A legal battle is brewing in Texas over an insurance payout to the mother of one of the victims killed in a fatal truck crash involving the truck driver for Josiah’s Trucking of Edinburg, Texas.

Kuehne + Nagel is on a mission to get bigger in Asia. Two deals this week in China are helping to make that possible.

Workhorse Group shares tanked after the U.S. Postal Service awarded a 10-year contract to Oshkosh Truck Corp. to modernize the aging mail delivery fleet.

Dogs in logistics, plus market crunches shippers, a look at Global Supply Chain Week, moving a house with a semi and more

“There’s tremendous opportunity for Florida-bound cargo,” says JAXPORT CEO Eric Green during his State of the Port address Tuesday.

The COO of ZUUM Transportation explained this expansion was a part of a continued effort to bring competitors and partners together to solve industry pain points.

Payment services provider Square posted 101% net revenue growth in 2020 over 2019 and 45% growth in net profit as it benefited from large growth in its Cash App division.

Americans of color are receiving the vaccine at far lower rates than white Americans. Doctors and ethicists say prioritizing essential workers and more proactive outreach would create a more equitable supply chain.

Consumer Brands Association study calls for establishing a federal Office of Supply Chain to coordinate public-private strategies.

The e-commerce shipping platform said it is now valued at nearly half a billion dollars.

Nicholas Cogan, director of international e-commerce at Walmart International, discusses omnichannel last-mile delivery and challenges created by increased demand for e-commerce and home delivery.

Susy Schöneberg, the founder and head of Flexport.org, discussed monetary and time-saving benefits of sustainable operations as well as customer loyalty.

Communications between the railroads about fuel surcharges can be included in legal proceedings pertaining to alleged price fixing that occurred in the early 2000s, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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.

Brett Rose, the CEO of United National Consumer Suppliers, discusses how container ship congestion is impacting the retail sector during a fireside chat with Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC senior editor of guests and American Shipper columnist, during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

Kevin Walker, president of Accentrics Home, and Doug Ladden, co-founder and CEO of Deliveright Logistics, talk about challenges and best practices for the heavy-goods logistics industry.

CFI’s facility in Laredo, Texas, has 6,000 square feet of office space on a 40-acre lot, including a staging and transloading area for cross-border Mexico freight.

Container shipping line CMA CGM wants to be an airline too. Its new air cargo unit has identified Chicago as its first destination and is giving preferential space on its aircraft to subsidiary CEVA Logistics.

Brian Devine, senior vice president at ProLogistix, discusses the future of warehouse labor.

National Retail Federation’s Jon Gold and CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco discuss the impact of empty containers and port congestion and how retailers can protect themselves from future supply chain vulnerabilities.

Kris Bjorson, JLL’s executive brokerage director, discusses the market for B-to-B last-mile real estate.


Nikola lays out plans for hydrogen-powered fuel cell trucks but offers nothing new on customer reservations.

DoorDash is accepting applications from women-, immigrant- and BIPOC-owned restaurants to participate in a new accelerator program designed to improve their chances of success.

Cooper Tire sold to Goodyear Tires in a deal worth about $2.8 billion. What effects does this have on Goodyear’s supply chain?

Driver turnover is consistently ranked as one of the biggest – and most buzzworthy – problems facing carriers. Research suggests that the solution may be threefold: more home time, higher wages and better treatment.

Write-offs for the quarter are better than even the strong freight market of 2018.

Alejandro Del Toro of GE Lighting discusses the challenges of measuring demand during the pandemic and how 3PLs are essential partners.

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.

Cummins will build a plant within a Daimler complex in Germany and become the sole supplier of medium-duty engines for the truck maker globally.

Certified B Corporation Flock Freight raises the bar with a commitment to offset carbon emissions from FlockDirect shipments for customers.

Jon Gold, the vice president of supply chain and customer policy with the National Retail Federation, sits down for a fireside chat withWeston LaBarof the Harbor Trucking Association to discuss the backup in the port of Long Beach/Los Angeles.

Geodis’ Jeff McDermott joined FreightWaves to talk about challenges that parcel carriers are facing and lessons learned from the pandemic.

Koffie provides quotes based on individual truck characteristics within a day.

Last mile may be the final stop, but it needs to be front of mind for shippers, according to two industry experts.

Industry expectations surrounding information access and transparency have grown. Qualified IT professionals are required to meet these new demands.

In his FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week keynote, Intel’s Ravi Dosanjh said we need to embrace disruption and future change, learning to adapt and more effectively anticipate what those changes will be.

XPO is known as a digital broker that collaborates with its customers to develop innovative technologies.

There has been a consumer flight to reliability throughout COVID, and Walmart benefited from this shift as much as any retailer. But with the end of the pandemic now in sight and Americans poised for the reopening of services, Walmart is expecting growth to moderate considerably. Walmart announced plans to invest heavily in its supply chain, namely fulfillment capacity and automation, to front-run the deceleration and claw toward e-commerce profitability.

Outbound freight volumes slowly picking up in markets slammed with record cold and snow last week (with forecast video).

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, we highlight the top 10 Biden appointees in the freight industry; a recall at Daimler; growth plans at Yellow Corp.; and big news in the tire industry.

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.

United Airlines’ cargo division has been riding high the past year. But it could lose some resources as the company realigns the fleet to make up for the suspension of two dozen 777-200s after an engine blowout.

CONA also partnered with Unibright in August to develop enterprise blockchain applications aiming to create a “Coca-Cola Bottling Harbor.”

“The longer it takes for us to communicate to each other … the longer the end customer, who we are all focused on at the end of the day, has to wait for information.”

“In April, our entire combined fleet was in high demand … . All of a sudden we found ourselves completely sold out.”