2020

Free new digital tools designed to help truckers, fleets protect their health, maintain supply chains Transflo recently made available free digital tools intended to provide truck drivers and fleets information about safeguarding driver health and maintaining supply chains during situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. “Truckers are essential to our economy and they want the latest information

Geotab analysis highlights heavy-duty trucks are still delivering essentials despite reduction in overall commercial vehicle traffic across North America On average, Canada is operating at 75% of normal commercial transportation activity across all vehicle types since March 15. In the U.S., commercial vehicle activity is at 76% of normal. Though commercial vehicle traffic overall has declined, heavy-duty trucks maintain 84% of normal

LONDON–(Business Wire)–Loadsure today announced an investment of £1.1M led by Insurtech Gateway, alongside other corporate and angel investors. Attracting interest for its radically simplified and efficient approach to spot freight cargo insurance, the company has launched a fully automated, end-to-end digital process. As a result, Loadsure empowers brokers, shippers, and carriers to cut per-load insurance

Article written by Darryn Pollock Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) GETTY IMAGES ConsenSys, a blockchain software company founded by one of the co-founders of Ethereum, has managed to leverage a position into Japan to conduct sales of its blockchain software solutions through a partnership with Hitachi Solutions. Hitachi Solutions is a core IT company of the Hitachi

Article written by Wayne Rash eWEEK TREND ANALYSIS: The COVID-19 coronavirus has thrown the supply chains for some industries into disarray, but when you add the oil price war into the mix, the result is near chaos. A good analytics program can offer predictive help in situations like this. What’s happening is complex, and it’s

How Cognitive Analytics Can Transform Your Supply Chain (Graphic: Business Wire) LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Quantzig, a leading analytics advisory firm that delivers customized analytics solutions, has announced the completion of its free resource on how cognitive analytics is helping businesses to reshape supply chain. Modern-day supply chains are multifaceted with numerous interconnected logistics networks. All these logistics networks

Article written by Seth Clevenger Inside the Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters of Atlantic Logistics. (James Crichlow/Atlantic Logistics) The third-party logistics business is undergoing a dramatic, technology-­driven transformation. The rise of digital freight matching, automated transactions and end-to-end shipment tracking is altering the way that 3PLs interact with their shipper customers and motor carriers alike. Although demand

MAYNARD, Mass., March 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kuebix, a leading transportation management system (TMS) provider and creator of one of North America’s largest connected shipping communities, has been recognized as a Challenger in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems. Kuebix is a Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) Company. “Our velocity in the marketplace continues with