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There are almost no container ships in the world left for liners to charter. Secondhand purchase prices are through the roof. It takes two years or more to get a newly built ship. How can liners find more capacity? There…

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Matt Blois continues his conversation with Vizient Vice President of Contracting and Program Services Mittal Sutaria and Senior Vice President, Emerging Solutions and Suppliers, David Gillan about the shining examples of resilient supply chains.  Vizient’s website lists three things the…

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Talking to experts can be intimidating, whether you’re the one conducting the interview or the one being interviewed. Nervous subjects can lead to confusing content and leave the audience wondering what the core message is supposed to be.  So how…

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Livestock haulers want federal regulators to keep in place the 16-month-long emergency hours-of-service waiver for truck drivers and carriers until at least the end of August despite an economy that has largely reopened for business. The first-of-its-kind, 50-state exemption was…

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With second-quarter earnings starting to roll in, one question will become paramount: What do they get compared to? This is not just an issue in trucking. The issue that Wall Street analysts have is that the usual year-on-year comparisons will…

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This is an excerpt from Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here. The problem: Companies making masks, swabs and diagnostic tests are laying off or furloughing thousands of workers as demand for their products is dropping quickly. News reports…

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In the end, 17 votes decided the end of a five-week United Auto Workers strike at Volvo Trucks North America. The third tentative agreement in the protracted labor dispute was rejected by the workers last Friday. But when the company…

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The abrupt closure of K-Ratio’s fuel hedging program in late June has left trucking companies scrambling as they await answers from the Chicago-based company as to what happened and when or if participating carriers will recoup money owed to them…

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DriverReach founder and CEO Jeremy Reymer chatted with Jim Mullen, chief administrative and legal officer of TuSimple, about the not-so-distant future of autonomous trucking. TuSimple is a San Diego-based, global self-driving truck company that is developing a commercial-ready, Level 4…

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