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[Video] Riviana Foods: Using Optimized Load Building to Reduce Transportation Costs and Improve Sustainability

Talking Logistics

Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. We see this, for example, in the number of empty backhauls that happen every day. Finding available trucking capacity is often a challenge, especially when demand is high. The sad truth, however, is that a lot of capacity gets wasted too.

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Supply Chain Visibility: Beyond “Where’s My Truck?”

Talking Logistics

This is certainly true in the transportation realm, where real-time freight visibility solutions are helping companies answer — quickly and accurately — Where’s shipment? Where’s my truck? So now you’re exetending [the value of visibility] beyond transportation into warehousing.”. Where’s my order?

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Trucking Regulation Tweaks for 2020

LandLink

The federal government has proposed long-awaited changes to the hours-of-service rules that would increase truck drivers’ flexibility while on duty. Most in the logistics industry consider trucking deregulated. For example, a truck driver has 660 minutes (11 hours) of legal driving time during his or her 14-hour “on duty” time.

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Beyond Fleet Telematics: Video Keeps an Eye on Fleet Driver Safety

IoT World Today

Video monitoring of driver behavior is adding a new level of awareness to help enhance driver safety, and potentially save companies money. The deployment of connected cameras and video analytics platforms comes as many large U.S. Putting more video cameras inside cabs and other places on fleet vehicles may be the next natural step.

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BASF Video Case Study: The Value of Real-Time Freight Visibility

Talking Logistics

It got to the point where we were disgusted with the daily phone calls from customer care, angry phone calls from the business team because it happened again, the truck didn’t show up when expected. In addition to improved customer satisfaction, Wehrle shared these examples: The data we’re getting has been hugely successful.

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the importance of the rivers in the transportation

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

When we talk about the transportation through water in the logistics of the world we immediately think about the maritime carriage. The nowadays’ importance of the river transportation relies on the fact that it combines the advantages of the maritime transportation compared to other means of transport.

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How To Attract and Retain Truck Drivers in a Hot Freight Market

Blue Grace Logistics

What’s covered in this article: The negative impacts of Covid-19 on the trucking industry. Ways to improve practices in the trucking profession. Technological advances in trucking. The global scarcity of professional truck drivers is evident. It is equally difficult to retain truck drivers. Image Source: [link].