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Transportation Management Top Stories

Trucking Industry Pushes Back on Government’s Electric Mandates
Trucking leaders are livid at the Biden Administration's EPA’s electric truck mandates, citing technological and infrastructural challenges.
Maersk Sees Silver Lining in Red Sea Shipping Challenges
Despite major disruptions in the Red Sea disruptions continue, Maersk predicts smaller losses than expected due to higher freight rates and volumes.
Baltimore Opens 45-Foot Deep Channel Following Bridge Collapse
The 45-foot deep channel offers substantial horizontal and vertical clearances, helping support the port's economic recovery.
El Paso Border Delays Cost Juarez $32 Million Per Day in Economic Losses
Commercial truck delays at El Paso border crossings, initiated by reinstated Texas safety inspections, costing valuable time and money.

Transportation Management Resources

SMC3 Mercury Gate Case Study - Improving Workflows and Enhancing Efficiency with LTL APIs
In this case study MercuryGate needed a way to automate workflows. It turned to smc3 for help.
Scope 3 Emissions from Freight Transportation
Today freight transportation contributes approximately 8% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the International Transport Forum demand...


Transportation Management News

Transportation & Logistics Companies Gain Significant Benefits from Technology Investments
Transitioning a trucking or logistics enterprise to a virtual work environment was not an overnight process, but as companies gained momentum they also found ways to scale their operations to maximize efficiencies.

The Current state of Freight Transportation and Logistics Markets
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Lee Klaskow, Senior Global Transportation & Logistics Analyst and Sector Head, for Bloomberg Intelligence, a division of Bloomberg LP.

Finding Stability in a Turbulent Truckload Market
While there are many positive signs moving forward, the truckload market is inherently volatile and cyclical, and the market constantly balances shifts in supply and demand.

Location infrastructure for logistics
Radar helps product teams build and scale location-based experiences faster. Use Radar’s Trips product to deliver accurate ETAs, reliably detect arrivals, identify inefficiencies, and increase customer satisfaction.

5 Tough Love Tips for Choosing the Best TMS Software
Acquiring the best transportation management system for your company’s present and long-term success is doable, but it requires a certain amount of due diligence and change in perspective.

U-Turn in Last-Mile Delivery Customer Experience
In this case study, we look at the inability to meet customers’ expectations for timeliness and professionalism led to dissatisfaction and loss of the customer base.

6 Ways You Know it’s Time to Outsource Last-Mile Delivery
Companies take a hard look at whether to outsource to a last-mile delivery company for this mission-critical arm of the supply chain operation.

6 Lessons from CSCMP EDGE 2022 to Improve Shipping Freight & Supply Chain Inefficiencies
CSCMP EDGE 2022 was one for the books, with the conference being held in Nashville it was the perfect place for supply chain professionals to gather, discuss transportation challenges, and brainstorm creative solutions.

Inefficiency - Not Just the Labor Shortage - Is Breaking Supply Chains
This report reveals new data and actionable insights to help today’s shippers overcome their most pressing challenges.

Last-Mile Delivery Visibility
Visibility into last-mile delivery at every step, in every touchpoint, is key to earning customer loyalty and ensuring business success.

How Seasonal Changes Impact Freight Embargoes
As unexpected weather-related events become more common, what are the chances that freight embargoes could disrupt a somewhat upbeat outlook?

Uber Freight & E2open to Provide Real-time Transportation Rate and Capacity Options
Clients can optimize transportation spend while managing logistics constraints, leveraging carrier network and insights.

Optimize your workforce with accurate location infrastructure
Your workforce is the face of your business, which is why proper workforce management is critical to delivering great customer experiences. Use Radar’s location infrastructure to deliver accurate ETAs, identify insights into workforce efficiencies, and increase customer satisfaction.

Challenges with Dock Appointment Scheduling for Seamless Yard Operations
Businesses must choose an intelligent platform to address rising global supply chain needs when looking for the right yard management system, it needs to be sophisticated enough to manage all aspects of the shipping yard.

How to Maximize Your Yard Management and Dock Scheduling Investment
Great tech should not only enhance your business’s ability to optimize and automate tasks or functions, but it should also improve your user experience. This ebook details how companies need to get a return on their investment quickly and maximize their benefits from yard management and dock scheduling investment software.

Reimagining The Way Goods Move - Uber Freight’s Next Chapter in Logistics Transportation Management
Our newly combined organization brings Uber Freight and Transplace products and services together under the new Uber Freight Platform, a first-of-its-kind logistics solution and partner that unlocks unprecedented supply chain reliability, resiliency, and optimization.

Tracking and Reducing Transportation Emissions
Talk of greenhouse gas emissions seems to be everywhere today. Not only do emissions factor heavily into the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics investors care about, but it looks ever-more-likely that being a carbon emitter will soon have a direct economic cost.

How the Hybrid Network Becomes a Reality for the Future of Freight Transportation
It’s clear that everyone in the supply chain needs better options to keep goods moving and evolve their business operations in 2022 and beyond, this industry urgency is converging with important advancements in autonomous trucks and marketplace technologies, providing us with a preview of what’s ahead.

Examining the Future of Autonomous Trucking
A new report by Uber Freight envisions a future where autonomous trucks and human drivers operate alongside one another in a hybrid network to ease the burden of increased freight demand, enhance truck drivers’ quality of life, and create more value for everyone in the supply chain.

Why the Rise of Fourth-Party Logistics Providers, 4PLs, is Important to You
These supply chain partners offer comprehensive planning and execution for all shipments, boosting efficiency and lowering prices.


Featured Companies

Agistix
Agistix helps companies with complex supply chains to easily gain true visibility to every shipment they pay for - across all systems, carriers, suppliers and modes. Agistix’s complete offering of data and analytic tools work with a company’s…
Safe Drive Systems
Founded in 2008, Safe Drive Systems designs manufactures, and distributes aftermarket technological solutions for the automotive industry. We are the leading developer of a unique radar and camera based collision avoidance system integrated with a fleet management system.
OIA Global
OIA offers global logistics, packaging, and materials sourcing solutions to optimize supply chains worldwide. Since our founding in 1988, OIA has grown into a $1 billion supply chain management leader, with over 1,300 professionals and 69 owned offices in 27 countries.
Solvoyo
Solvoyo is a SaaS cloud based supply chain platform that breaks the chains of traditional supply chain planning. Unlike traditional enterprise software solutions that force customers to artificially divide their supply chain into separate modules, Solvoyo’s technology has no…
Rittal
Rittal North America is built on a strong tradition of innovation and takes pride in a progressive approach to engineering comprehensive and effective solutions that supports our customers in the pursuit of their goals. Rittal manufactures the world’s leading…
SEKO Logistics
SEKO provides complete Supply Chain Solutions, specializing in transportation, logistics, forwarding and warehousing. We also lead the industry with innovative and configurable IT solutions, which provide a seamless flow of information and give our growing customer base true supply chain…
FIDELITONE
A SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FIRM - FIDELITONE helps you earn customers’ loyalty through specialized services in inbound logistics, order fulfillment, last-mile delivery, and service parts management.
Optym
Optym provides best-in-class, new-generation automation and optimization software to transportation and logistics companies in the airline, railroad, trucking, and mining industries.
Airclic
Airclic is the company that customers count on to support their mobile supply chain operations, helping them become more efficient while lowering costs and enhancing customer relationships. The company is the trusted partner for food service, wholesale/retail, transportation and…
PITT OHIO
On-time pickup and delivery performance from transportation and logistics providers is essential to our customers. We are helping our customers with capacity surges and challenging lanes while maintaining our reputation as a carrier who delivers your shipments on time and…
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