Distribution of coronavirus vaccines isn’t limited to FedEx and UPS. Many freight transportation and logistics companies are already playing a large role in the global immunization campaign.
Samsara announced the Workflow Builder and App Designer features for the Driver App are available for all Samsara customers starting Tuesday.
Heather Kettelhohn told the North American Supply Chain Summit she arrived at Cummins Inc. just four days before the pandemic began to shut down the company’s global operations. She had to learn on the fly while applying her decades of planning expertise.
Third-party logistics provider FitzMark announces its third brokerage acquisition of the year and fourth in the past two years.
Walmart pilot to remove safety drivers from behind the wheel of trucks manufactured by Gatik, the autonomous box truck company.
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of 2020 presidential campaign earlier this year and endorsed Biden, as secretary of transportation. “I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because this position stands at the nexus of so many of the interlocking challenges and opportunities ahead of […]
Executives from J.B. Hunt, MoLo Solutions, United States Cold Storage, K-Ratio dig into the tricky nature of freight contracts for brokers and 3PLs in an uncertain freight market during FreightWaves’ North American Supply Chain Summit.
USA Truck will deploy Trucker Tools’ Smart Capacity solution, while Penske adds tracking solution as Trucker Tools continues to add large transportation partners to its platform.
Uber’s (NYSE: UBER) acquisition of Mexican grocery delivery startup Cornershop was approved on Monday by Mexico’s Federal Commission of Economic Competition (COFECE). The approval from COFECE was the last part of the acquisition. Terms of the deal, which gives Uber a majority stake in the company, were not disclosed. The acquisition furthers the expansion of […]
AB InBev is on track to reach its 2025 100% renewable energy goal in 2021. This Ffireside chat from the North American Supply Chain Summit covers the company’s sustainability efforts across the entire supply chain.
The chief customer officer looks to be the bridge between logistics departments and C-suites.
The latest ACTION TRAC® innovation supplies customers insight into the nebulous period of the
LTL shipment life cycle, the time the pickup is requested through the time the shipment is picked up.
Tive Inc., a supply chain visibility platform, announced on Tuesday that it secured a $12 million Series A funding round. Leading the round was RRE Ventures, followed by Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from existing investors NextView Ventures, Hyperplane Ventures, One Way Ventures, Fathom Ventures and others. Riding a wave of interest in real-time supply […]
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine could begin rolling out next week in much the same pattern as the Pfizer vaccine this week, but there are some operational differences.
Speaking during the North American Supply Chain Summit, Dollar General’s Meghan Nicholas says organizations need to map out a digitization plan — and be prepared to pivot.
More than 45 trucking companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a Texas-based logistics files Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Plus will sell trucks powered by its automated driving system on Full Truck Alliance, the Google-backed Chinese digital freight-matching platform.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Boyle Transportation’s pharma expertise leveraged in vaccine delivery. Plus, Frozen Food Express boosts driver pay and Forward Air adds California LTL terminals.
TravelCenters of America caps its first year under new CEO Jonathan Pertchik by posting practically all its assets to secure a $200 million loan to carry out the turnaround expert’s business makeover.
Officers at the Laredo Port of Entry seized narcotics valued at more than $2.8 million in two recent unrelated cases at the World Trade and Colombia-Solidarity bridges.
