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What’s the catch with sign-on bonuses? Online grocery logistics; being a Haul Star; Tive goes out-of-this-world and more

Also on the podcast: OPEC+ surprises with more oil in January.

Blythe Brumleve lists what to include in 2022 marketing and website budgets on this episode of Cyberly.

Average Vehicle Trip Length by Purpose

Congestion can be attributed to increased ship traffic, a lack of labor and crane availability, and the sea of empty containers rising throughout Southern California.

On this episode of Point of Sale, Grace Sharkey dives into how simple tech can drive robotics innovation forward.

Zach Strickland and Anthony Smith make their end-of-year predictions for 2022 on this episode of Freightonomics.

Learn why BMW is looking to the future of auto tech on this episode of Transmission.

Anthony Smith and Tony Mulvey look at early retail results after Cyber Monday.

Click here to Prepare Your Driver Trainers to Comply with the new ELDT Rule

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.

On WTT the cargo situation as we race toward Christmas, peak season insights, whether abandoned containers are an issue and if the supply chain bullwhip will crack next year

As demand for shipping increases, whales are more at risk of colliding with vessels. A new certification provides strategies to prevent collisions.

High-single-digit dollar gains reported despite higher costs, fewer discounts

Black Friday/Cyber Monday wrap-up; trucking markets; how supply chain shortages hurt an arcade brand; and more.

Mary O’Connell and Bill Morrisroe of iShared sit down to talk about shared truckload and how to get away from LTL overlength fees.

An environmental coalition urges Target, Walmart, Amazon and Ikea to clean up their maritime emissions and shipping routes.

Your weekly fuel report has arrived!

A major investment in electric and low-emission school buses and healthier air for children

“I wanted to find a way to reduce emissions that was nonregulatory and allowed shippers to select carriers based on operational efficiency [and] price,” says Eric Beckwitt, Freightera founder and CEO.

Marine fuel price up 47% since the beginning of the year

In the past, truckers had their own lingo to describe everything from the type of trucks on the road to nicknames for police.

Supply chain turkey of the year; how to get on the WTT Christmas special; where truckers can eat; are inventory leftovers the next crisis?

Also on the podcast: What the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve means.

Ranking the best and worst of state highways based on the Reason Foundation’s Annual Report.

B-Stock Solutions CEO Howard Rosenberg shares a sustainable avenue for retailers to get rid of overstock, late or unsold seasonal goods.

Host Mary O’Connell discusses process improvement with Cargo Chief’s Chris Arrendondo.

EIA forecasts global crude oil demand will exceed global supply through the end of the year.

Your weekly fuel report has arrived!

How pets and pet policies can help with recruiting and retention in the office and in the cab. Innovative new cannabis products and their supply chains.

On this episode of Net-Zero Carbon, Tyler Cole, director of carbon intelligence at FreightWaves, chats with Desiree Wood, founder and president of REAL Women in Trucking, about truck driver issues and what motivates her work. “I became an advocate by necessity — partly from self-preservation, but partly because I could see the drivers had few […]

Percent of bridge area rated poor in state

Season 3 of MadGaines Live is now on FreightWaves TV every Friday.

Steam Logistics war on noncompetes; Freight Alley growing larger; Redwood and Freightos partnership; Port of Boston and more on WTT

Don Lefeve of Robotic Research joins the show to discuss the very near future of autonomous trucking.

Also on the podcast: Is the tide turning in oil markets?

Experts explore different sustainable fuels and dive into how fleets can reduce their GHG emissions once they have started measuring.

Sudshare wants to be the Uber for laundry

TLDR: Unpacking climate provisions in the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and uncovering who will be using the planned 500,000 chargers nationwide. $1.2 trillion IIJA lotta money It’s understandable if many of you are bullish carbon nerds like myself and spent the past two weeks with eyes peeled for updates from climate negotiations at COP26 in […]

Check out the key initiatives in the plan here!

What Cyber Monday may look like for amazon sellers; Kraft-Heinz grocery supply chain; Turkey of the year and more on WTT

On this episode of Put That Coffee Down, Kevin Hill and Richie Daigle explain the upper hand in pricing freight.

On this episode of Rising Tides, Matt McLelland hosts a discussion about building a successful startup from ground zero.

Green bonds are designed to help companies fund environmentally sustainable projects that often have higher upfront costs.

16 companies control 80% of the world’s liner shipping, container production and box-leasing capacity

In this issue of the WTT newsletter, is the driver shortage a myth; are port fees a bluff; supply chain strikes heated seats and more.

Mary O’Connell and JP Hampstead, Director of Passport Research at FreightWaves, sit down to talk about Q3 earnings, what the future of acquisitions might be and what the most surprising thing to come out of earnings season.

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.

Your weekly fuel report has arrived!

TLDR: Summary of this week’s Transport Day announcements from the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland (shipping, aviation and ZEVs, oh my!), and a nice, long list of all the acronyms in this article: COP. NDCs. GHG. LNG. CO2. WMBC. COP again. WEF. SAF. FAA. ICAO. ZEV. BNEF. USDA. NZC (probably the most important of the […]

Shipping crisis solutions with Staxxon and Locomation. Central States Manufacturing teams up with Wreaths Across America, more.

How much does it really cost to own a new car?

On this episode of the show Dooner and The Dude focus on the early results from the Supply Chain Disruption Task Force’s recent moves

Also on the podcast: Why banning oil exports would have no impact on prices.

Strong economic growth and growing populations will drive increases in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption through 2050

SONAR Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) allows carriers to compare their lane rates with the market to see where they fall.

The two sat down with the hosts of FreightWaves’ Freightonomics as part of the F3 Virtual Experience.

WTT is live from F3 with Embark Trucks CEO/co-founder Alex Rodrigues plus guests from TriumphPay; SalesForce; Redwood; Trucker Tools and more

A climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, hosted Transport Day on Wednesday, when global leaders signed on to create at least six green maritime routes by 2025.

Convoy co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis sat down with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller for a fireside chat at Thursday’s F3 Virtual Experience.

Schneider aims to “eradicate manual processes and paper because it is completely inefficient,” said Erin Van Zeeland, group senior vice president and general manager of logistics services at the company.

Aggressive driving is a major concern of the American public and a real threat to the safety of everyone on the road.

Company demos presented during FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience show how automation can provide cost and time savings.

From yard management and ELD integrations to payments and email programs, companies displayed their FreightTech during F3.

WTT live from day 2 at F3 with guests from Daimler, ArcBest, Reliance Partners, Lean Solutions Group and DF Dedicated Fleet

Go behind the scenes at F3 with Dooner in this edition of the WTT newsletter

“[What] speaks to M&A in our space right now is, a fast-growing, value space organization is actually worth more than a slowly growing, stable, profitable business,” says CarrierDirect’s CEO of the current brokerage market.

Tesla has been many things, but to Ed Niedermeyer, the company is a case study filled with both good and bad lessons on how to build a company.

“As that system proves out over billions of miles of experience and proves the real safety of the technology, we think that will be a key building block towards fully autonomous trucks,” says Plus COO and co-founder Shawn Kerrigan.

Risks are nothing new to in-transit cargo. Supply chains have always faced unforeseen disruptions. And an influx of data and modernization can be just as challenging…unless it is used correctly. With IoT Technology, real-time analytics, and the digitization of supply chain operations, supply chain managers have the ability to be truly proactive.  Sensitech’s SensiWatch® Alert Solution […]

25,000 personal care products now available in 6 markets

Finding capacity and orchestrating communication along supply chains.

WHAT THE TRUCK?!? is live from F3 with guests from Waymo, Daimler, Gatego, Armstrong Transportation and Loadflex

What makes visibility systems useful for supply chains is when it flows that information into a company’s planning systems, says Kevin O’Meara, vice president of integrated supply chain at Shaw Industries Group.

FreightTech companies demonstrated products and services designed to improve efficiency in supply chains.

Reliance Partners’ Mark Vickers discusses how usage-based insurance introduced to freight markets moving into Mexico is a relatively new product that protects a shipper against the very different Mexican laws on liability.

In building out a hydrogen infrastructure, Cummins Inc. New Power President Amy Davis says make the hydrogen first, then make it cleaner.

Your weekly fuel report has arrived!

TLDR: A big international climate treaty meeting in Scotland (blah, blah, blah), 72 recipients of the latest EPA Green Freight awards, and the difficult task of choosing between steak and ice cream. COP26Climate pundits, activists, and investors all around the world have watched this week as climate negotiations kicked off in Glasgow, Scotland at COP26. Thousands […]

Cold weather affects your vehicle in more ways than you might expect:

Redwood Logistics teamed up with FreightWaves to survey shippers about their sentiments for 2021 and beyond.

Neste is supplying Cox Petroleum Transport with a fuel that can bring immediate emissions and cost savings: renewable diesel.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Transportation employment update

We’ll find out if the vaccine mandate applies to truckers; fight food insecurity; provide port crisis tips; and meet Fernish

Is the cold email your go-to marketing strategy? Find out if that is good or bad on this episode of Cyberly.

On this episode of #WithSONAR, Luke Falasca and Kyle Taylor look at whether we have hit a pre-peak season market peak.

“The customer demand will change so much faster than the industrial processes, and I think that to be early might be challenging, but to be too late will be devastating,” said Anna Borg, president and CEO of Vattenfall.

Also on the podcast: Time to tap strategic oil stocks?

Since July 2020, the Outbound Tender Rejection Index has sat above the 20% mark, meaning nearly one in five loads that shippers tendered were rejected by carriers for higher-paying loads in the spot market. While many shippers wait desperately for rates to return to normal, analysts suggest that the market is not expected to normalize […]

Freight railroads are committed to delivering the best possible service product for customers and consumers

HireRight’s Justin Reed joins the show to share the hard data behind the current state of recruiting during the pandemic.

UniGroup’s Scott Kluesner describes the efforts made to deliver the best special commodity services during the pandemic.

Jett McCandless shares his story: From humble beginnings to historic growth and all the hurdles along the way, this is one you won’t want to miss.

Nighttime crash reductions associated with good, acceptable & marginal headlights

Harbor Trucking Association’s Matt Schrap talks about the struggle at the ports; The Wall That Heals gets a new landing; and more.

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.

Andrew Cox links up with old Great Quarter, Guys host Seth Holm for a reunion episode all about capital.

Kaylee Nix chats with Dennis Oates about molding shipping strategies to fit your business needs on this episode of At Your Doorstep.

2 in West Virginia, 2 in Georgia, 1 in Tennessee

Sebastian Blanco looks at how different chips can play a big role in making auto production simpler.