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APL Logistics Launches ShipMax Alliance Service
APL Logistics has introduced ShipMax Alliance, a collaborative shipping service that optimizes high-frequency truck deliveries.
Autonomous Vehicles Promise Tremendous Societal Benefits
The widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could eliminate the more than 30,000 annual U.S. road fatalities, improve travel time by as much as 40 percent, recover up to 80 billion hours lost to commuting and congestion, and reduce fuel consumption by as much as 40 percent.
DAT Solutions Launches Freight Market Analytics Service
DAT Solutions has launched an online analytics service for transportation and logistics professionals to access truck and load data on the 149 key market areas in North America with the highest concentrations of inbound and outbound freight. Through a Tableau web portal, customers access a set of trucking freight data visualizations. Users also have the option of importing data into their own systems.
MiX Telematics Adds Driver-Engagement Platform
MiX Telematics, a provider of truck fleet and mobile asset-management technology, has introduced MyMiX, a driver-engagement platform designed to help customers run safer and more efficient fleet operations.
UDrove and ITS Dispatch Integrate Product Lines
UDrove and ITS Dispatch have integrated their product lines, providing a Web-based means of managing the operations of carrier fleets and freight brokers.
Are Purchasers of Transportation Management Technology Really Using All of That IT?
Transportation management software providers have been in a race in the last few years to build out their software and capture more business. ERP players have also been building or buying TM. A profusion of new modules, emerging players, new niches and acquisitions are reaching a fevered pitch. And we are certainly not at the heights yet.
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XPO Logistics Agrees to Acquire Con-way Inc.
XPO Logistics Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire Con-way Inc., the Fortune 500 provider of less-than-truckload and full truckload transportation, contract logistics and truck brokerage.
Roadrunner Renames Transportation Management Unit
Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc., an asset-light provider of transportation and logistics services, has changed the name of its Transportation Management Solutions operating segment to Global Solutions.
High Backlogs, Tough Comps Lead to 5th Consecutive Decline of Net Orders for Classes 5-8
For the month of August, 37,200 orders for vehicles in classes 5-8 were booked, down 8 percent from July and down 14 percent compared to August 2014. However, these numbers are preliminary. Actual numbers will be published in mid-September.
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What Must We Do to Overcome the Truck Driver Shortage?
Transportation capacity problems have been a volatile issue over the past 20 years or so. A thorough analysis provided by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, in its "State of Logistics" report, indicates that by 2017, shippers in the U.S. will face shortages in trucking resources again, predominantly a trucker shortage, in the near future due to an array of developments that may cause shippers to find loads left on the ground, shipping costs rapidly escalating, and shrinking profit margins that stun stakeholders.
Freight Brokering Industry Flourishes as Bond Renewal Period Approaches
Thousands of brokers are currently in active search for the best freight broker bond renewal deal on the market. The reason for the shopping spree is that renewed freight broker bonds are an indispensable requirement to stay compliant and licensed for the new season.
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Sales, Prices of Used Class 8 Trucks Continue to Rise
Used Class 8 truck metrics were generally in line from June to July, with average age and miles up an incremental 1 percent each. Compared to last year, average prices were up 2 percent in July and 6 percent year to date, according to the latest release of the State of the Industry: U.S. Classes 3-8 Used Trucks, published by ACT Research.
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