FR8Star offers transparency for the heavy hauling market Open deck heavy hauling is a smaller segment of the vast United States trucking economy, representing about $50B of the overall industry’s $750B annual revenues, but considered in absolute terms, it’s still a massive sector. Specialized heavy haulers move freight like farm equipment, mobile homes, and machinery […]
The rapid growth of e-commerce is driving deep changes in logistics, from tightening up trucking capacity to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery processes. To respond, logistics managers now need to think in terms of systems that they can leverage today to make processes more efficient, while also keeping an eye on longer-term developments that
Today, we’re all working to manage omni-channel order fulfillment while establishing a more efficient distribution and transportation network strategy to accommodate smoother inbound flow as well as next-day—or even same-day—delivery windows. To do this successfully, retailers, distributors, suppliers and manufacturers must innovate, adapt and evolve—or get edged out of their market positions. In an effort
Sometimes a buzzword gets so overhyped that it deserves some light-hearted mockery. That seems to be the case with “blockchain.” While it’s true that not every industry can benefit from a distributed-ledger technology, the trucking industry most certainly can. In fact, a new consortium called the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) is working to apply blockchain to
Three weeks into his new job as the chief executive of Omnitracs, Ray Greer sat for lunch with trucking media and analysts at the company’s Outlook user conference in Nashville, Feb. 27. Before leading Omnitracs, a mobile fleet management technology provider, Greer was the president of BNSF Logistics, a large third-party logistics (3PL) firm. BNSF
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In 2013, chemical engineer Paramvir Sandhu was working on new formulations for the Armor All/STP Products Company when an “entrepreneurial itch” led him to the trucking industry. He decided to start a trucking company, WF Logistics, with his cousin who had attended the same master’s program at Colorado State University. Their company was generating “a
On the heels of one of the best years in the company’s history, Daimler Trucks North America plans to continue efforts to diversify its North American parts distribution strategy and leverage global Daimler resources to develop and introduce new technologies related to connectivity, electrified powertrains and automated driving. Driven largely by 46,000 orders for the
Triple T Transport, a third-party logistics and transportation management firm, has gone live with Smart Capacity, a next-generation freight matching and carrier connectivity platform from Trucker Tools. Over the past several months, Triple T conducted an evaluation of freight-matching and trucker connectivity portals as part of a strategic technology assessment. At issue was a decision
The rise of logistics startups in the freight industry over this decade has been nothing short of game-changing – both in increasing operational efficiency and also in easing the way business is done. Industry front-runners comprising the who’s who in the logistics space are jumping on the technology bandwagon as they see vast dividends in
Convoy, backed by billionaire tech pioneers Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, and Uber Freight, an offshoot of the globally disruptive ride-sharing giant, are trying to grab a slice of the fragmented US truck brokerage market, taking different routes to lure skeptical drivers and capacity-hungry shippers. The two technology startups are attempting to persuade US shippers
