Trucking

More and More Professional Drivers are in Favor of New Camera Monitoring Systems

This look at the past week in images features wild weather, a truck spill and a progress report on a major bridge repair.

The coronavirus pandemic inspired retirement-age drivers to leave the industry en masse while also shutting down driving schools for months on end, exacerbating the existing shortage.

Truck drivers transported millions of dollars worth of contraband tobacco from North Carolina to Mohawk territory in New York as part of a U.S.-Canada smuggling ring that involved Hells Angels members and snowmobiles, according to federal prosecutors.

The servitization of the trucking industry means there is a need for carriers to have better transparency of their available equipment in order to add new revenue streams.

Government Agency
Seeks Long-haul Truckers
for Nuclear Materials

Bureau of Transportation Statistics – Employment by Industry

The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline should serve as a wake-up call to the trucking and logistics sector, where companies keep getting targeted by hackers even though many incidents are preventable.

Shippers continue to struggle to find a reliable way to get freight into the U.S., which is causing major changes to surface transportation patterns.

Stats for Average Truck Speeds on Select Metropolitan Area Interstates

ARCs — paired with freight optimization services — can lead to operating margin improvements as high as 30% and utilization increases of up to 130% for carriers.

Loadshop is a growing digital freight marketplace that continues to expand its capabilities while driving efficiency and transparency for both shippers and carriers

What is the Carbon Footprint of a Truck?

How brokers and logistics providers choose to navigate the current capacity crunch will affect both their own chances of success and their relationships with their carrier partners for years to come.

Companies relying on older cellular networks to run their remote monitoring and telematics applications will soon start to experience performance issues and reliability drops ahead of widespread network shutdowns.

Vehicle Transport leverages partnerships within Agero’s Swoop Dealer Portal to quickly get drivers back on the road after breakdowns or accidents.

Waggoner delivered record EPS in a difficult environment.

The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is a central piece of a multiyear surface transportation reauthorization bill that Congress is negotiating to replace the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.

The brokerage will pour money into new tech, new modes and new people.

Driver surveys examining turnover rates have consistently shown that drivers value three things: pay, time and respect.