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With Road Ready’s suite of wireless sensors, OE trailer system and fleet software integrations, the company aims to provide comprehensive, scalable and inclusive fleet telematics solutions. Road Ready from Clarience Technologies is participating in a program with Penske Truck Leasing and Penske Logistics to evaluate the Road Ready trailer telematics system. Launched in 2017, Road Ready […]

DALLAS, Aug., 4, 2020 – Drivewyze has bolstered its industry-leading PreClear weigh station bypass service with 12 new locations in Montana and Illinois. The new sites expand the company’s weigh station services in both states to offer drivers even more bypass opportunities. Montana now has 12 active Drivewyze sites, while Illinois has 17 bypass locations.

Digitized end-to-end workflow solutions provide greater efficiency, compliance and safety in freight transportation with lower operational costs GREEN BAY, Wis., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — KBX Logistics, an independent Koch Industries company, today announced their partnership with Transflo (the largest supplier of POD solutions in the transportation industry today) to expand their electronic Bill of Lading (eBOL) and electronic

FMCSA codifies sod turfgrass as ag commodity, for now The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said in a Federal Register notice to be published Aug. 5 that it interprets sod turfgrass as an agricultural commodity, thus allowing sod haulers to operate under the same hours of service waivers as other ag haulers. The agency, in response to an

Spot truckload freight rates increased for the second week in a row, bucking typical trends for late July, said DAT Solutions, which operates the DAT One load board network. Spot rates usually taper off during July, but they’ve been elevated as shippers and freight brokers turn to the spot market to help them manage imbalances in their

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Aug. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PowerFleet, Inc. (Nasdaq: PWFL), a global leader and provider of subscription-based wireless IoT and M2M solutions for securing, controlling, tracking, and managing high-value enterprise assets, announced it will be outfitting a large portion of the full Day & Ross trailer fleet with PowerFleet’s LV-500 solar tracking solution and

DALLAS, Aug. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — TriumphPay, the nexus of billing and payments in the transportation industry, today announced its platform is now fully integrated with HubTran, a leading transportation industry automation platform. The integration allows carriers get paid faster by allowing brokers to approve paperwork in the HubTran platform within seconds of its submission by carriers

You have probably heard the words “Digital Freight Marketplace,” or DFM, used across our industry, but we’d like to offer a primer on what makes a DFM different than a Digital Freight Brokerage, or an online brokerage that connects freight shippers with carriers via apps and the internet – in most cases inefficiently. DFMs are