Accellos Inc. has acquired HighJump Software and will merge their operations in North America, Asia and Europe.

LLamasoft and Chainalytics have formed a partnership to integrate Chainalytics' proprietary Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) truckload data with LLamasoft and Chainalytics' mutual North American customers.

Tim Voulopos grew up around transportation, majored in logistics and then worked his way up to an executive position at Cardinal Logistics Management. Today there is more technology and fewer drivers, which presents a real challenge, but the basics of trucking really haven't changed, he says.

GE Capital Fleet Services has introduced a telematics application that allows truck fleet managers to track assets such as trailers, forklifts and generators in real time.

Pegasus TransTech Corp., a vendor of document-scanning applications for the transportation industry, has released a new version of Transflo Mobile.

Companies that view transportation management as a core competency with a strategic impact approach technology acquisitions as investments and not merely as costs, says Mike Joseph, director of business development at LeanLogistics. Joseph discusses how this mindset is reflected in other supply chain trends.