Fri.Jul 04, 2025

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The Rise of Broker Consolidation – What It Means for Small Carriers

Freight Waves

If you’ve been in the game long enough, you’ve seen this coming. Quiet acquisitions. Big-name brokerages merging. The same five players showing up on every load board. Broker consolidation isn’t a trend—it’s a tidal wave. And like every major shift in this industry, it’s the small carriers who feel the hit first. But this ain’t a doom-and-gloom story.

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Proof of Delivery for Advanced Transportation: Smarter, Faster, Verified

Loginext

Smarter, faster, and verified- modern Proof of Delivery for Advanced Transportation ensures transparency, reduces disputes, and enhances customer experience across logistics operations. The post Proof of Delivery for Advanced Transportation: Smarter, Faster, Verified appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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ATRI report: Rising costs continue to squeeze trucking industry

Freight Waves

Rising costs collided with depressed freight rates, according to ATRI’s latest operational costs of trucking benchmarking report. According to the data, the industry’s average cost of operating a truck declined slightly by 0.4% to $2.260 per mile. That’s good news but the freight devil lies in the details. When removing lower fuel costs, marginal costs increased 3.6% to $1.779, the highest costs ever recorded by ATRI for non-fuel operating costs.

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Pallet Pooler’s Sustainability Progress

Logistics Business Magazine

The latest sustainability report from a leading European pallet pooling specialist reveals a collective saving of more than 40,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions – the equivalent of 177 million miles of driving. IPP, which has its UK base in Coventry and specialises in providing reusable wooden pallets for major manufacturers and FMCG brands, is part of Faber Group, which has published its third annual sustainability report.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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How to Sell Your Safety Record to a Direct Shipper

Freight Waves

Let’s get something straight—shippers don’t just buy capacity anymore. They buy consistency. They buy professionalism. And most of all, they buy risk reduction. You can have the cleanest trucks, the most reliable drivers, and the best on-time percentage in your market, but if you can’t sell your safety record in a way that builds confidence and earns trust, you’ll keep getting passed over for the guy with flashier marketing or deeper pockets.

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Right-sizing for Growth

Logistics Business Magazine

Online power-tool retailer, UK Planet Tools, has invested early in ‘right-size’ packing automation to remove constraints on growth and build-in flexible capacity for peak. Starting out in 2010 as a local retailer of high-quality tools and fixings, serving customers in and around Milton Keynes, UK Planet Tools has grown rapidly to become one of the largest online suppliers to the building trade for power-tools and related products.

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Amid Industry Pullback, Radius Logistics Bets on the Canadian Economy with 75,000 SF Expansion in Mississauga

Radius Logistics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MISSISSAUGA, ON — Radius Logistics, a leading Canadian third-party logistics (3PL) provider, is proud to announce the opening of its new 75,000 square-foot warehousing and distribution facility in Mississauga, Ontario. Strategically located near Toronto Pearson International Airport and key transportation corridors, the site significantly strengthens Radius’ national logistics network.

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U.S. English language proficiency enforcement bears watching

Truck News

In April, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers.