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Five Reasons Shipping Software Needs to Embrace Multi-Carrier Parcel Management
Shipping operations have become enormously more complex and difficult to manage. To meet these challenges, businesses need to go beyond traditional fixes and into the realm of comprehensive carrier management systems.
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Canadian Bridge Blockade Stretches Fragile Auto Supply Chain
Protestors blocking traffic between the U.S. and Canada to oppose vaccine rules have further stretched an auto supply chain already worn thin by pandemic-related labor shortages and a scarcity of chips.
Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.
Driving Truck Fleets Forward With Proactive ESG Strategies
Looking to the future of truck leasing, industry consultants and executives have begun advocating solutions that will significantly reduce emissions over time.
U.S. Truckers Plan Anti-Vaccine Convoy to Washington
A group of American truckers are seeking to import a Canadian movement to protest against vaccine mandates, with thousands of members on social media pledging to bring the demonstration to Washington, D.C.
A freight truck drives at sunrise. Photo: Getty Images.
Americans Face Record Metals Prices as Shipping Costs Surge
Surging prices of the raw materials needed for your refrigerators, automobiles, window frames and plumbing show no signs of abating as America’s supply chain crisis spills into another year.
Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside an office communications room. Photo: Bloomberg.
Two Tools to Mitigate Ever-Rising Trucking Rates
Transportation is by far the most expensive part of logistics, accounting for up to 70% of a company’s total logistics costs.
How to Beat the Capacity Challenge in LTL Shipping
The less-than-truckload (LTL) market has accelerated its transformation in the last 18 months due to the pandemic. Healthy economic conditions have caused a shift in consumer buying behavior, resulting in more online shopping. The truck driver shortage and labor crunch add to the capacity deficit. In the past, demand was predictable, but with inventory shortages, carriers went from drought to feast.
Ottawa Declares Emergency After Trucker Protests Spin ‘Out of Control’
Canada’s capital city remained under a state of emergency Monday as police tried to rein in protests against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.
Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.
Vaccine Protest Snarls Canada-U.S. Border Crossing for Fifth Day
Two lanes of traffic have reopened at one of Canada’s busiest border crossings five days after a group of vehicles blocked the highway to protest vaccine mandates for truckers.
Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest against vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario. Photo: Bloomberg.
Trucker Protest Strands Beef Shipments at U.S.-Canada Border
Protesters who are rallying against vaccine mandates are holding up shipments of Canadian beef to the U.S.
Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.
Truckers Protesting Vaccine Rule Stay Put in Canada’s Capital
Raucous protests in Canada’s capital continued Sunday over trucker vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 health restrictions, but the crowd thinned from its height a day earlier after drawing military and political rebukes for poor behavior.
Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.
Sleepy Truckers Get Forgotten in Supply Chain Crisis
President Biden’s sweeping infrastructure law was supposed to ease problems for the trucking industry and relieve supply chain woes, but the law overlooked a vital necessity for truckers: Parking.
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