Moving a box from A to B is much the same in any country, but paperwork, processes, terminology and regulations vary greatly, presenting a barrier to global TMS rollouts. Elie Hiller of Transwide discusses ways to meet this challenge.

XPO Logistics Inc. has agreed to acquire NLM, reportedly the largest provider of Web-based expedited transportation management in North America.

Descartes Systems Group is offering a new optimization application to help retailers and distributors make deliveries on the same day that an order is taken.

GE Capital Fleet Services has developed a suite of analytical tools to help truck-fleet managers benchmark and optimize performance.

September is typically the second-weakest order month of the year for Class 8, so modest activity was expected. Class 8 net orders were 19,018 units. Meanwhile, the medium duty market was able to mostly offset a sharp pullback in bus orders to net 16,745 units in orders. This updated status of the North America commercial vehicle market was included in the State of the Industry report, recently released by ACT Research Co. (ACT). The report covers Classes 5 through 8 vehicles for the North American market.

Executives want to know that their organization isn't wasting time or money. For logistics organizations, that means trucks should only be doing what is necessary to support the business, and nothing else, to ensure that time and money are invested only in value adding activities.

Comdata Inc. has launched Release Two of FleetAdvance, a software application for truck fleet management.