Motor

Tokyo, Japan, Akio Toyoda has seen the future, and it's called "Mirai". That's the name of Toyota's new fuel cell vehicle, which the company's president announced in a video released the day before the car's official launch.

Download the attached electronic white paper for more information about the challenges faced by transporters of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals and the best ways to solve them.

Additional capacity is not being brought on, as carriers are not betting on the come, they were burned in the Great Recession and they will not repeat the pain.

Don't tell the teamsters: but we’re in the middle of another technological revolution and driverless trucks are already here.

The report “Transitioning to Low-Carbon Fuel: A Business Guide for Sustainable Trucking in North America” is designed to help fleet operators and their value chain partners comply with new and future regulations.

Gentle Giant to arrange and provide transportation of 25+ truckloads of goods and athletic equipment for the 118th annual race.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillan said in his blog that he never thought Walmart's sustainability journey would lead to trucks like this - - radical carbon fiber trucks.

Anyone who has talked to a motor carrier knows that it costs a lot more to operate a truck today that it did three years ago. Despite the increased operating expense, shippers have been able to avoid significant rate increases to this point.

An increase in trucking loads is expected in 2014, good new for the 125,000 inland residents who hold jobs in sectors related to that industry.

Leaders from Teamster local unions that represent workers at YRC Worldwide Inc. (YRCW) overwhelmingly recommended to approve a tentative agreement and to send it out to the membership for a vote. The tentative agreement with YRCW, if ratified, will provide a pathway for substantial debt reduction and refinancing initiatives that will permit the company to protect and preserve more than 30,000 good American jobs.

So what's next for YRC? Whatever road YRC chooses, it’s clear that shippers and its own 26,000 Teamsters employees hold the key to long-term survival of the venerable 90-year-old company whose roots date to the golden age of trucking.

The Teamsters Union announced (January 17, 2014) that it reached a tentative agreement with YRC Worldwide Inc. (YRCW) that, if ratified by the membership, will provide a pathway for substantial debt reduction and refinancing initiatives that will permit the company to protect and preserve more than 30,000 good American jobs.

Consider what the world, and your life, would be like if there were no truck drivers. How would products get from the manufacturers to your door? What would happen to the world’s economy?

As the shale energy revolution is gaining speed in the U.S., transportation and logistics companies are experiencing an immediate and dramatic impact, according to a new PwC US report, Shale Energy: A potential game changer – Implications for the US transportation & logistics industry.

In a press release early Monday morning, Amazon announced it would be using the United States Postal Service to help deliver packages in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas on Sundays.

This report presents the findings of the 2013 annual survey and analysis, and compares the results of previous years’ surveys, creating a predictive indicator of emerging priorities in the trucking industry.

Despite the difficulties of monitoring trends in an industry as large and diverse as trucking, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) continues to proactively monitor the challenges facing the trucking industry.

All eyes are on Congress regarding funding to keep the U.S. government open. If the government does shutdown, between 800,000 and 2.1 million employees across the federal government will not be at work. This will include some who work to keep our freight moving safely across the country and the world.

The $280 billion truckload (TL) sector is expecting the remainder of 2013 to be much like the past three years: moderate demand with no increases in fleet capacity and rate increases in the 2-percent to 4-percent range.

Today’s savviest logistics practitioners are driving out costs from the transportation system and creating new “omni-channel” distribution networks designed to take advantage of customers’ changing buying habits. The results of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ 24th Annual State of Logistics Report, co-sponsored by Penske Logistics, shows that the sharpest logistics management professionals are saving their companies millions in transport, warehouse, and shipping costs.