Article written by Clarissa Hawes The long-awaited trial in the overtime compensation class-action lawsuit brought by former Total Quality Logistics (TQL) employees has been pushed back because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bench trial was scheduled to start on July 13. However, Bruce H. Meizlish, the lead attorney from Cincinnati, representing former TQL employees in the […]
June 25, 2020
In this special report, we celebrate the amazing people and companies in our industry who have stepped up with hard work, impressive innovations, and extraordinary measures to help meet Covid-19–related supply chain challenges. Whoever would have thought that the turn of a new decade would bring such a cataclysmic event to our world? Our economy
Article written by Harrison White In the Carrier Update presented by PowerFleet, Zach Strickland discusses tender lead times declining before the holiday, and in the Shipper Update, Anthony Smith notes that jobless claims are slowing. Original Source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/capacity-tightens-rapidly-as-lead-times-drop-freightwaves-now
Article written by Connor D. Wolf Convoy brokers at work before the pandemic. (Convoy) [Ensure you have all the info you need in these unprecedented times. Subscribe now.] Convoy unveiled a new machine-learning system that’s designed to assess carriers’ safety histories, the company announced June 24. The system processes millions of records daily to better correlate
Article written by Susan Galer When Shamir Rahim, founder and CEO of VersaFleet, transformed his bio-medical startup into an AI-powered transportation management system, he never imagined being at the epicenter (in a good way) of a supply chain revolution during a worldwide pandemic. As anyone desperately searching for toilet paper discovered earlier this year, the