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.
12,000 miles a month, surprisingly clean truck stop showers, and dogs riding shotgun — inside the cab with an American road warrior. Long-haul trucker Josh Giesbrecht lives a strange and solitary life, spending weeks on the road at a time while hauling cargo from point A to point B, covering…
Several major U.S. ports reported mostly higher cargo volumes in July compared with a year earlier, highlighted by a record month in Virginia and rising imports in California. The Port of Virginia said it handled 226,000 TEUs in July, an increase of 9% from a year earlier, with truck volume…
The Cass Truckload Linehaul Index, a measurement of changes in base linehaul rates, rose 3.6% year-over-year in July, according to Cass Information Systems. The increase matched the same rate that it grew year-over-year in June. Read more here.
