MedAssets, Inc. MDAS, -0.38% today announced that it promoted Bharat Sundaram to president of its Spend and Clinical Resource Management (SCM) segment, effective immediately. In this role, Mr. Sundaram will provide overall leadership and set strategic direction for operations, product development, implementation, client service, and sales and marketing. He reports…
The Swiss Alps are an unforgiving landscape of rugged, rocky peaks and lush, green valleys. Connecting communities that would be otherwise isolated by the vast mountain range — including cultural and economic hubs such as Zurich, Milan, and Turin — is no easy task. Tunneling and track-laying for the 35-mile…
Reston-based CargoSense is ensuring your frozen turkey gets a cushy ride to your dinner plate. The company has designed a “black box” that tracks how pharmaceuticals and refrigerated products are treated during shipment. The platform captures data like temperature, light and humidity, put also pressure and even how the object is tilted during…
It’s official: The transportation and logistics industry is a hotbed of mergers and acquisitions. Major transportation company FedEx is currently in the process of finalizing its most recent deal to buy European delivery company TNT. The $4.8 billion TNT acquisition marks the shipping giant’s second major acquisition of the year,…
DALLAS — Gather a group of executives involved in some facet of trucking and let them start talking about autonomous vehicles, and in particular autonomous trucks, and the picture becomes crystal clear — they are coming, like it or not, believe it or not. But they won’t dominate the market…
Noting that it was a “milestone borne out of terrible tragedy,” the U.S. Department of Transportation today released a long-awaited survey on the lack of safe parking for truck drivers and announced a national coalition of federal agencies, trucking and safety groups to find solutions. The tragedy they referred to…
HEYBURN, Idaho — Volvo Trucks rolled out a drivetrain system that management hopes will give the company a larger presence among liquid and bulk haulers, regional distribution carriers and trucking companies that often deal with diminishing loads or empty backhauls. The adaptive loading system, built around an electronically controlled suspension, switches…
Welcome to 2015. You are living in a world where a watch is a computer and a table is an air conditioner. Samsung is the next company to have overlap in the invention arena. The compay’s newest invention is a television set. Nothing unusual for Samsung, a company known for its…
With their kids out of the house, empty-nesters Dan and Cristy Dornbusch cruise U.S. highways with an array of domestic comforts — TV, microwave convection oven, running water — in their vehicle. They’re not just savoring the scenery: The Dornbusch duo operates a Freightliner M2 truck lugging loads of metal…
Truck capacity isn’t tight, Abtin Hamidi believes, it’s just hidden where shippers can’t find it. Effective use of Internet-based technology can help unlock that capacity, lowering transportation costs for shippers and providing better freight at a good rate for carriers, Hamidi said. Read more here.
