The logistics industry is collaborative by nature and leaning into that fact is one of the most effective ways carriers can ward against turmoil during market shifts.
Brokerages that already have customer contracts allow agents more rate stability
This white paper reviews the latest market dynamics and what we can expect for Q3.
Reliance Partners’ Robert Kaferle dives into FMCA’s DataQs system, what it is and why you should be eager to use it.
Evolving recruitment marketing efforts in sync with the market.
With the goal of becoming more competitive and efficient in today’s evolving truck transportation market, shippers are looking for large carriers for partnership from beginning to end.
Driver turnover has been a challenge for trucking companies across the U.S. After implementing SHIPSMobile Content, companies are seeing improved driver retention and a reduction of the “hire, train and repeat” culture.
Ongoing deflationary market conditions are likely to continue causing challenges for these spot-dependent carriers even as the fall and holiday freight surge approaches.
As technology catered to the transportation industry continues to evolve, players across the industry are becoming more aware of the importance of data security and transparency.
Consider your safety program as a rocket engine. How it’s designed and implemented is crucial.
The ebb and flow of the logistics market.
Self-driving technology has evolved over the past decade, and autonomous vehicles (AV) have hit the road.
The HVUT is a tax applied annually to many heavy commercial vehicles. How do you know if your vehicles are affected?
Netradyne’s Nick Grome dives into the power of positive feedback through the Driver•i dashcam.
This report shares an update on current market conditions across the trucking, maritime and intermodal markets.
Even in a loose market, technological solutions aimed at optimizing freight movements remain useful.
With Parade and Tai Software, Concept Logistics is well armed to face the ever-changing freight landscape.
With a long list of heavy-hitting customers that include Walmart, Loblaw and most recently Georgia-Pacific, Gatik has demonstrated that commercially successful autonomous delivery is happening first in a constrained environment, on fixed, repeatable short-haul routes.
AtoB, a new entrant to the fleet card industry, is disrupting the traditional fuel card model with its no-hidden-fee, universal approach, putting the power back into carriers’ hands
Piece-level tracking gives XPO employees and customers real-time visibility for tracking LTL shipments.
Nuclear verdicts do not just impact the defendants; they drive insurance rates up for companies across the industry, as well as the motoring public.
As fleet operators begin to incorporate electric trucks into their fleets, they are turning their attention to two areas: regulations and infrastructure.
Todd Ellis dives into REG’s line of EnDura Fuels and quantifies its carbon reduction impact.
Lean Solutions Group looks to replicate the success of its Colombian nearshoring model.
If you aren’t using a platform with an open API, you may find data siloed between different programs that are unable to communicate with your TMS. Your business will ultimately become constrained by the limitations of your TMS. You won’t have the freedom to design a TMS to your company’s needs.
In today’s market, it is less about whether a carrier can afford to implement predictive maintenance and more about whether they can afford not to.
Respect and communication remain vital aspects to driver retention.
Reliance Partners’ Thom Albrecht points to current negative trends as reasons to hunker down now and through the new year.
Volvo recently announced its plan to construct an electric charging corridor in California.
Over the past several years, “culture” has become something of a buzzword in the corporate world. Despite this trending vernacular, the things that make up a company’s culture – energy, diversity and values – are the same things that determine whether or not people want to work there.
At the end of the day, brokers, shippers and 3PLs want a reliable TMS that can handle all of the nuances of both their particular segments of the transportation industry while also offering a simple user interface.
Preparing your fleet for an inspection is a continual process that requires monthly monitoring of safety data.
The transportation and logistics industry is still dealing with the residual effects of the pandemic, including accelerated technological advances, a tough labor market and an inconsistent supply chain.
Shippers have already begun negotiating lower contract rates, and carriers should prepare for this trend to continue. This will prove especially important for small and mid-size carriers who often do not have the profit margins to weather a storm.
Like a mechanic, we maintain and repair moving parts of your transportation machine; we don’t drive the machine, we fix it.
Produce shipper WP Rawl has found PowerFleet’s solution to have a surplus of benefits.
Solutions like route optimization and real-time visibility are beneficial regardless of what is happening in the market, but these money-saving tools can prove crucial during times of tighter margins.
A better question is, what can carriers do to lower their rates?
Creative and strategic solutions for recruiting in the logistics space.
A recent report shows how far the transportation industry remains from the net-zero goal.
As more solutions enter the market and companies’ technological suites have become more sophisticated, integrations have gone from nice-to-have perks to need-to-have requirements for many shippers.
While many expect digital freight to disintermediate the broker, MVMNT has other plans in store.
Sam Stockdale discusses Link Logistics’ decarbonizing strategy for logistics infrastructure on FreightWavesTV’s Net-Zero Carbon.
While technology has a place in the evolution of transportation, not everything in the day-to-day operations should be replaced by it. Interpersonal relationships are essential and the foundation for success.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels says letting things slide can have deadly consequences.
“Oil and gas money is so embedded in many local budgets, it’s difficult to imagine a future without it,” a recent New York Times article said.
Drivers find the fleet camera system to be more of a wingman than a watchdog.
Axle Logistics has partnered with the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business to turn out more well-trained, entry-level sales professionals.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce regulations that aimed at reducing carbon emissions from power plants.
It’s probably poor planning rather than bad luck. Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels says you shouldn’t be shocked to find no parking available if you waited until the last minute.
NTI makes jobs more attractive through up-to-date market data.
With security breaches on the rise, companies across the industry realize that their current strategies are not doing enough to safeguard their systems, files and data.
When pandemic-fueled headwinds pushed historic amounts of freight into the spot market, many shippers found themselves running an unmanageable amount of seasonal bids to compensate for annual contract failures.
Today, many in the trucking and logistics industry are looking to improve reliability, reduce costs, and decrease their carbon footprint to deliver against rising customer expectations.
Semi-autonomous truck seamlessly navigates heavy traffic in demonstrations along the Southern California freeway
Reliance Partners’ Graham Gonzales explains why a logistics career path — or career change — is definitely worth considering.
Just as shippers and carriers vary in size and complexity, so too should the technology that automates their processes.
commitments to cut their carbon footprint—such as becoming net zero by 2030.
Redwood is focused on bringing together a number of strong solutions that already exist. The open supply-chain ecosystem enabled by RedwoodConnect operates more like an app store than a single application, facilitating the ability to integrate a variety of solutions.
This report shares an update on current market conditions across the trucking, maritime and intermodal markets.
Raising awareness of trucking career opportunities among younger generation.
Many argue that the disposal of electric vehicles’ lithium-ion batteries after maximizing their use could potentially be just as harmful to the environment as carbon emissions.
The company marked its progress by submitting its Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment to the U.S. Department of Transportation for public disclosure on how Locomation is addressing safety and its readiness for public road testing.
With changes accelerating and investment pouring in, freight forwarders need to start digitizing now to remain competitive and thrive in the imminent digitized logistics environment.
In the upcoming quarter, Trucker Tools will home in on the broker and carrier relationship by introducing a couple of mutually beneficial tools.
Decades of experience delivering critical health care products has shaped Capstone Logistics’ last-mile solution for e-commerce and grocery delivery.
PGT Trucking, Inc. has a proven solution to assist prospective owner-operators through today’s market challenges — lease purchasing.
Shorter RFP cycles allow shippers to take advantage of market shifts in the short term, enabling them to maintain rates that are as close to real-time market offerings as possible.
IMI’s Bob Bortner explains why fleets should take a closer look at the wheels that keep them rolling.
This year, American consumers are expected to spend $7.7 billion – a number that has climbed over $1 billion since 2019 – on food items leading up to the July 4 holiday.
Changing how recruiters communicate with drivers from the very beginning is one of the simplest and most effective ways to tackle driver hiring issues.
Traditional loans or recourse factoring are not the only ways to get carriers paid and build up credit. ComFreight has set out to help brokers grow and solve the problem of contract-heavy, high-stress traditional financing with HaulPay.
Port X aims to create an environment where drivers feel like part of the greater team, not sequestered from it.
Non-asset-based freight agents, who work independently of any one specific carrier, are especially at a disadvantage in today’s marketplace.
Fleets have been able to find more control over their transportation spend using PTV Route Optimizer’s features designed to suit the specific logistical last-mile delivery needs for CPG items.
NextEra Energy plans to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, saying it can do so without using offsets through renewable hydrogen.
Record high fuel prices in May and June this year have created a significant headwind for motor carriers as they continue to weather the current wave of market instability. In […]
With the country navigating a weakening economy, companies industry wide are struggling to hire and retain drivers.
Reliance Partners’ Robert Kaferle describes simple ways fleets can derive savings.
Shippers are beginning to realize that their tried and true RFP methods will no longer keep them competitive in a changing market, pushing them to consider new, data-driven options.
Driving company culture and personal growth.
Technology solutions, like the ones offered by Trucker Tools, help shippers and carriers achieve visibility and quickly book available trucks and nearby loads with the power of real-time, early and accurate data.
With the right technology, fleets can confidently weather any storm.
With millions of truck drivers on the roads every day, it is up to carriers to ensure they uphold the values and safety-first focus of the professional trucker. And it all starts with training.
As the industry continues to grapple with the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, dedicated options seem to be making their way back into the spotlight.
As the world continues to become increasingly digitized, especially since this shift was accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have had to find a balance in the workplace in managing relationships despite being primarily online.
“We deliver, so you can” is more than a tagline — it’s the foundation upon which Arrive Logistics has built its business.
“Ditat has definitely helped us increase cash flow just by making the billing cycle efficient and allowing a one-stop place for our drivers to have the ability to get their dispatch, scan their bills of lading in and then it directly goes into the TMS and we can bill it out the same day.”
The side of the road can be a very dangerous place to be, especially if you don’t make your presence known.
Rising fuel costs have affected every link in the supply chain across all modes of transportation.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, electric vehicles are taking off even faster than expected and “are eating into the transportation system and taking bigger bites every year.”
For shippers, incorporating sustainability into supply chains is critical.
Shippers and carriers are now managing their operations on a single AI-powered transportation management platform with PCS Software.
TriumphPay improves the payments experience with expedited and secure transactions.
Insurance, safety and visibility solutions were major talking points as the industry anticipates an uptick in cross-border trade.
With a federal judge recently invalidating leases to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, now is a great time for shippers and carriers to shift focus toward network and route efficiency in order to reduce the amount of empty miles and unnecessary fuel usage.
Bid rates have all but bottomed out, and many shippers are jumping at the chance to save some money. Some industry experts, however, are urging shippers to proceed with caution.
Each year, MTS Logistics sponsors the biggest bike event in the shipping industry to raise funds for Spectrum Works, a nonprofit workforce training program that provides job training and employment opportunities for young adults with autism.
Joining larger fleets as independent contractors could provide drivers with the support they need to weather volume changes and rate decreases while simultaneously coping with rising fuel and operational costs.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels details some of the items no driver should hit the road without.
