Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. Since the third quarter of 2017, many manufacturers have been regularly confronted by scarcity in the transportation market – a problem they haven’t encountered in years. Scarce available trucking capacity leads to higher shipping costs. Nearly half of U.S.

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Envase Technologies

APRIL 4, 2022

It was Fortune 500 meets the Indianapolis 500, and Loop Integrated Solutions has stepped on the pedal without looking back. With over 50 years of combined experience in the Trucking industry, Loop’s five founders have developed a partnership that focuses on delivering excellent customer and carrier service.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2021

While keeping over-tired truck drivers off the road is certainly a worthwhile goal, providing an adequate amount of safe truck parking spaces still presents a problem. Nationwide, the shortage of safe spaces for truck parking is on the rise. Nationwide, the shortage of safe spaces for truck parking is on the rise.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The UNHAS crew loads dozens of boxes of medicines from a WFP truck onto the helicopter in Port-au-Prince, before carrying them to the South. Isabel joined WFP in 2017 after several stints at the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations. As a child I used to lie down on our terrace and spend hours counting the planes above my head.”

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 24, 2017

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Decreased 0.1% Cass Truckload Linehaul Index (February 2017). January 2017 North American Freight Numbers. billion in current dollars in January 2017, a 6.7 billion from January 2016 to January 2017. and Mexico by all modes in January 2017 was electrical machinery, of which $7.4

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Automated Truck Firm Raises $60 Million (WSJ – sub. Turnpike travelers will see semi-autonomous trucks on the road this year (Cleveland.com). Finally, more news this week related to self-driving trucks and vehicles. Omnitracs LLC, a provider of remote monitoring systems for truck fleets, led the new funding round.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) has launched T oyota Automated Logistics Group (TALG) to house its existing subsidiary, Toyota L&F, alongside the companies it acquired in 2017 (Bastian Solutions and Vanderlande) and 2022 (viastore).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud Update Helps Businesses Scale Logistics to Meet Multi-Channel Demand. Manhattan Associates Reports First Quarter 2017 Performance. ATA Truck Tonnage Index Decreased 1% in March. Logistics Platform Haven Sets Sights on SAP with Launch of Haven TMS. This hydrogen-fueled 18-wheeler at L.A.,

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Trucking Companies Boost Big-Rig Orders on Rising Shipping Demand (WSJ – sub. Anheuser-Busch Orders 40 Tesla Semi Trucks (WSJ – sub. Daimler Trucks North America launches 3D printed parts program (Commercial Carrier Journal). Dockworkers Walk Out of Labor Talks (WSJ – sub. Growing length of U.S.

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Transporeon

APRIL 9, 2019

The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. Since the third quarter of 2017, many manufacturers have been regularly confronted by scarcity in the transportation market – a problem they haven’t encountered in years. Freight prices are also going up because of carrier rate increases since the last half of 2017.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Tesla Semi Truck Will Change Freight. Which is why one of technology’s most respected minds is now fundamentally overhauling land freight (and he’s not just stopping at an electric truck). — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2017. Meet the Tesla Semi Truck. Tesla Semi unveil now Nov 16.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This past October, the American Trucking Associations warned that the trucking industry could be short 50,000 drivers by the end of 2017. In the report, ATA projects the shortage to reach 50,000 by the end of 2017 and if current trends hold the shortage could grow to more than 174,000 by 2026.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 19, 2021

Chris Fish was appointed Senior Vice President of Dedicated Contract Transportation in 2017. Bulk food carriers like Ruan must meet a higher standard in areas like driver training, licensing, weighing & sampling, and food safety. Cutting edge technology in their trucks, terminals, and offices. About Chris Fish.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 19, 2021

Chris Fish was appointed Senior Vice President of Dedicated Contract Transportation in 2017. Bulk food carriers like Ruan must meet a higher standard in areas like driver training, licensing, weighing & sampling, and food safety. Cutting edge technology in their trucks, terminals, and offices. About Chris Fish.

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10xLogistics

AUGUST 26, 2017

It still is amazing to me how many CEOs spend more time in meetings than out in their facilities. CCJ Report on July Truck Tonnage Looking at the Net Income and EPS of the large publicly held carriers and you see that it has, so far, been a "ho hum" year as their income is struggling to keep up with expenses. More to come on this.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 7, 2017

For my son, it’s on to swimming, where he competes in the butterfly and IM, with his first meets next week. Heavy & Medium Duty Truck Preliminary Orders Show Q/Q Decline, Up 37% from Last Year. For me, it’s finally mowing the lawn and doing all the other things around the house I’ve been ignoring for months. ACT Research: N.A.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

There’s less and less margin for error, especially when it comes to meeting customer delivery expectations. One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 was that traditional software user interfaces would start migrating toward chatbots and virtual assistants. I’ll share some highlights in a future post.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Most recently, Ulrike Just was responsible for the sales and service business of KION Industrial Trucks & Services (ITS) in the UK and Ireland. Linde Material Handling GmbH, a KION Group company, is a globally operating manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse trucks, and a solutions and service provider for intralogistics.

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Logistics Manager

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Dubai-based DP World recently received six forklift trucks from Konecranes to the DP World Jebel Ali Terminal 1 in Dubai, UAE. The forklifts were originally ordered in November 2017. Delivered in June 2018 the forklift trucks are the Konecranes SMV16-1200C model.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

Global sales for such products, which are used in factories, warehouses and logistics applications, reached $6.131 billion in sales in 2016 and are on track to hit the $6.358 billion mark in 2017, according to VDC Research Group. For the handheld scanner sector, Gupta says early-2017 results indicated that overall revenues are 9.6%

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Stord

DECEMBER 31, 2017

According to the Wall Street Journal , trucking companies hired 6,700 workers in March 2018, giving that sector the strongest sector growth since 2012. Not surprisingly, to meet demand warehouse and storage payrolls added 2,500 hires in early 2018. Fleets are being called upon to deliver goods, but can’t meet demand.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 9, 2019

Rick Owens, the independent Landstar agent named 2017 Safety Officer of the Year: “Meeting face-to-face with the customer during a M.U.S.T. Owens’ practice of putting safety first began in 1994 as a teenager working part-time at his family’s trucking company. visit and supporting the customer’s safety efforts is what we do best.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. That all changed with the summer of 2017. A 2017 study from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) found that 19.5

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leilani and Cheyenne are the first female students enrolled in Patterson High School’s trucking driving program. What sets them apart is that they both share a passion for trucking and see the vast opportunities that industry offers. Leilani is a senior and is enrolled in one of the first high school trucking programs in the nation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Since 2017, Konecranes has provided dependable, robust and cost-efficient reach stackers under the Konecranes Liftace label. Smart systems integrate with Konecranes TRUCONNECT Remote Monitoring, allowing a near real-time view of truck usage and the progress of KPIs as well as easier planning of preventive maintenance.

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Penske Move Ahead

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Truck Renting and Leasing Association (TRALA) reported over the weekend that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) listed its 90-day waiver from the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate, for rental trucks on its website. Penske Offers Free, Simple Solutions to Log Hours in Rental Trucks.

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PINC

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Inability to locate empties to meet outbound load schedules 4. Truck driver detention 8. Lack of shipment and trailer visibility needed for efficient shuttling between plant and distribution centers 3. Inefficient yard trailer management requiring higher spotter and shuttle spend 5. Gate congestion 6. Demurrage or detention charges 7.

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Penske Move Ahead

JANUARY 30, 2019

Penske Logistics professional truck driver Jim Clark attained a great honor within the transportation industry when last night he was selected to serve on the American Trucking Association’s (ATA) 2019-2020 America’s Road Team. He was one of 34 finalists judged by a panel that included trucking executives and transportation media.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

TMW Systems Becomes Charter Member of Blockchain in Trucking Alliance. FourKites’ Real-time Visibility Platform Now Fully Integrated with Manhattan Associates’ TMS 2017. The Number of Retailers Offering Same Day Delivery has Tripled in the Past Year to Meet Elevated Customer Expectations, According to a New BRP Survey.

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Freight Center

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What are the true costs to the environment in meeting customer expectations this time of the year? While consumers are shopping online more which reduces emissions, the modern shipper will need more packaging materials to meet the online buying demand. FreightCenter Goes Green. We are also a SmartWay Transport Partner.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

2017 will be the year of renewed focus and interest in adopting newer transportation management systems (TMSs) to boost productivity and find the biggest cost savings among shipping transportation providers. However, global use of the TMS is expected to have a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of seven percent between 2017 and 2021.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

The trucking sector of the logistics industry experienced this boom firsthand — ground carriers seeing massive growth in demand for the transportation of smaller loads, characteristic of e-commerce cargo. The trucking capacity shortage. Growth in demand is one half of the coin that is the shortage in truck capacity.

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Freight Center

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

More Trucks on the Road. That hasn’t happened in 2019, largely because carriers reinvested a lot of the income they made in 2017 and 2018 into buying new trucks. New orders for heavy trucks hit a record high of 53,100 in August 2018, 150% higher than they were in August 2017. Here’s why.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That’s because from late-November through December 23, retailers and other shippers scramble to secure trucking capacity in order to stock their bricks-and-mortar and virtual stores. percent in 2017. economy is absorbing capacity “faster than trucking companies can add trucks and drivers.” percent in the third quarter.

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Penske Move Ahead

JANUARY 19, 2018

Today, the Truck Renting and Leasing Association ( TRALA ) announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published the waiver TRALA requested for short-term rental trucks in the Federal Register. Motor carriers must have a “satisfactory” rating in order to utilize this waiver.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Every Wednesday night – for the past 10 years – volunteers have loaded up a Penske rental truck with furniture and other household goods for delivery to help individuals and families start new lives in Ottawa. HelpingWithFurniture (@hwfottawa) October 12, 2017. HelpingWithFurniture (@hwfottawa) September 27, 2017.

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Transporeon

MARCH 5, 2018

According to the American Trucking Associations, trucking revenues were $676.2 percent in 2017, while trucks moved more than 10.4 The truck driver shortage is getting worse. The truck driver shortage is getting worse. trucking rates can be attributed not only to the strong U.S.

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