Netradyne’s Adam Kahn suggests the most effective way to train and retain drivers is to review their performance in full — both the good and the ugly.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels wades through the weeds of the driver pay debate.
Effective partnerships improve recruiting and retaining efforts across the industry.
In the rising world of e-commerce, Open Pricer helps to expand e-commerce with dynamic pricing.
For many carriers, the rapid adoption of technology has sparked skepticism and reticence.
StratusGrid’s expertise and ability to provide supply chain and logistics companies with software solutions on the world’s most widely adopted cloud platform is underscored with Amazon Web Services recognition.
R2’s LTL service is designed specifically to service small-medium-sized shippers – bringing well-rounded expertise in one platform that gives shippers the same advantages of a large shipper.
FMCSA requires annual checks on a truck driver’s motor vehicle record. But doing that can leave gaps and potentially allows drivers to remain on the road when they are no longer eligible to drive a CMV.
Platform helps to streamline and automate driver recruitment and retention efforts.
Reliance Partners’ Robert Kaferle explains why it’s important to bring your driver and dispatcher together more often.
Learn How Trimble Transportation can help manage your RFP process
DHL Supply Chain provides visibility across the entire supply chain with top-notch transparency and easy-to-understand performance-tracking tools.
Many of the pandemic-fueled headwinds that have plagued the logistics industry over the past two years are beginning to subside, but U.S. ports are still being slammed with more volume than they can handle on a daily basis.
With strong backing from major players within the Southeast Asia port community and ecosystem, Haulio is the leading first-mile player in container logistics.
When it comes to truck driver safety, one might assume that the majority of injuries are the result of vehicle crashes, but this is not always the case.
A new headquarters and a growing team have kept Reliance Partners on the rise.
Protecting drivers with TVC Pro-Driver.
Omar Singh details the shipper TMS integrations and partnerships that have taken Surge to end-to-end automation.
Though often overlooked, improving truck driver behavior packs a punch when it comes to maximizing fuel efficiency. Research shows up to 30% of fuel consumption comes from decisions drivers make on the road.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels describes what it takes to be crowned a champion driver.
Citation management that helps trucking companies improve driver safety.
Tenstreet’s Marilyn Surber says it’s better to refrain from making serious strategy changes or even exiting the recruiting game altogether in the evolving truck driving climate.
Mothership’s same-day freight marketplace injects modern software into an industry still lagging behind in technology adoption, opening doors for shippers that will directly allow them to break into new markets and build consistent and dependable service with low overall damage rates.
The easiest way to keep roadside incidents in check — and protect profits — is to invest in predictive maintenance technology upfront.
The holiday peak season could provide carriers with the perfect opportunity to strengthen their relationships with shippers going into the new year, securing more consistent and higher-value freight as the market continues to loosen.
Each new Ditat customer is paired with one support team member who stays with the account from the beginning and beyond.
While freight demand is still present, the industry is seeing a softening.
Using data to protect trucking companies.
In order to be proactive in both the planning stage and throughout the year, shippers need access to accurate, digestible and up-to-date data.
It’s not too late to take care of violations that could leave you sidelined. Be sure to conduct thorough pre- and post-trip inspections of your brakes, lights and tires.
He regards the technology as not just the next generation of business process tools after the TMS, but something more akin to the revolutionary jump from traditional phones to smartphones.
FMCSA’s Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program will analyze the safety benefits or hazards that young drivers pose to interstate commerce.
Attracting and retaining a younger workforce.
Netradyne’s Ryan Knight says fleets should identify their pain points before choosing a camera solution.
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.
