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Mental health in supply chain, breaking down The Ice Road trailer, 3g sunsets and more.

Amazon confirmed its annual Prime Day event will be held in Q2 (likely June), as it seeks to improve on a record Q2 2020, when revenue grew 40%. But there’s also major supply chain reasoning behind the decision.

The headlines are touting Target’s store fulfillment numbers, but Home Depot’s right behind, fulfilling 55% of online orders from stores. This is particularly advantageous for Home Depot, which sells goods that are more often heavier and bulkier than its retail counterparts.

The best-in-class retailers navigated well, and managed to grow inventory considerably in the first months of the year.

On today’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Jenny Abernathy, vice president of enterprise capacity development and driver recruiting at CRST International, about strategies to engage future leaders of the trucking industry.

On this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel explores how one alternative milk company is aiming high on the stock market.

On this episode of Navigate B2B, Steve Ferreira drops some personal news and some insider knowledge about shipping stocks on Wall Street.

A tool for combating nuclear verdicts, truckers needed to haul nuclear weapons, Kyrie Irving teams up with Fleeting, more

Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter from FreightWaves that adds perspective and context to happenings in the trucking world.

Scott Prince, CEO of CarrierHQ, shared on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? how his company is modernizing insurance.

The chip shortage has been going on long enough to generate some survey data, and there are some positive things to be found there, but overall the picture is bleak. The general trend seems to be that the impact will be massive and it will last at least through most of 2021, but there are […]

On this special episode of At Your Doorstep for FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Kaylee Nix looks at how annoying paperwork can become less time consuming with machine learning.

This is an excerpt from Monday’s (5/13) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest. There’s a startup that was first created to deliver essentials to college kids but is quietly capturing the imagination (and venture capital) of the tech world, and it’s time the logistics world took notice. Gopuff, founded by two friends at Drexel […]

With most CPG companies already having reported first-quarter earnings, the CPG-related news this week centered around descriptions of consumer strength from their retail partners. In addition, the largest CPG companies, such as Unilever, are making bigger pushes into sustainable packaging. Finally, Oatly shares soared in their debut on Thursday.  To sign up for The Stockout, […]

Logistics is the name of the game when it comes to getting health care supplies to patients in disaster zones or places experiencing disease outbreaks.

Dooner and The Dude are back for Day 2 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME with interviews from all across the logistics industry.

Gatik’s Sam Saad talks about his autonomous vehicle company’s expanding Walmart partnership, Isuzu manufacturing deal and other trends in the transportation industry.

Upgrading fleets and equipment from 3G mobile technology to LTE requires upfront planning with a strong partner.

The Shipper of Choice Award recognizes companies that attract carriers because they make it easy to do business.

Consumers reversion to services has not come at the detriment of durable goods spending. Over the past four weeks, the mix of durable goods-to-services spending has remained stable.