Successful logistics companies tend to excel in several different areas, namely customer service, efficiency and transparency. Most of the high-tech products hitting the market exist to address these very same concerns. As the industry continues to navigate its fairly recent…
Truckers and other drivers along Interstate 16 in central Georgia should expect delays after a crash shifted an overpass in Treutlen County. Related: ‘Painful mess’: I-40 bridge closure costing trucking industry $1M daily According to the Georgia Department of Transportation…
Union Pacific is temporarily suspending eastbound service from West Coast port terminals to its Global IV intermodal facility in Chicago to help ease “significant congestion” at inland terminals, especially Chicago, and at the ports. UP (NYSE: UNP) hopes this suspension,…
A big jump in cargo revenue helped Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) significantly narrow pretax losses in the second quarter, with officials telegraphing the company will be profitable on an operating basis in the second half of 2022 because passenger…
Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their airplane for the first time on December 17, 1903. Since then air travel has revolutionized the world in countless ways. When airplanes first took to the skies, the mere idea of an airplane (or…
Port Houston’s container activity in June surpassed the record level of twenty-foot equivalent units for the same month last year, despite a decline in steel and auto volumes. Total June container volume was 292,627 TEUs, a 39% increase compared to…
The Fourth of July holiday weekend resulted in weaker U.S. volume comparisons year-over-year, but the overall trend for 2021 is still upward for intermodal volumes. Meanwhile, rail observers anticipate the start of the earnings seasons and the Class I railroads’…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) on Wednesday announced that it has secured a patent for drone technology that can be paired directly with delivery vans. The system, if it comes to fruition, could enable Amazon to optimize its last-mile delivery services by…
Uber Freight announced Thursday it has expanded into less-than-truckload freight. “Our vision is to become a one-stop shop for freight,” Michael Bailey, product manager for Uber Freight (NYSE:UBER), told FreightWaves. “Shippers can come to us for any type of goods,…
How NASA’s Mars Rover is helping to chart a path for autonomous trucks By Dr. Al Kelly Dr. Kelly is a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and a co-founder and Chief Scientist at Locomation. He conducted research for the…
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