The Paycheck Protection Program has run out of money. With a May 31 deadline still a few weeks away — a date that is now mostly meaningless — the Small Business Administration confirmed reports that lenders who went online to…
Union Pacific to open intermodal terminal in Southern California Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) announced Tuesday that it will open an intermodal terminal in Southern California’s import distribution region near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The terminal, which…
When Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) launched Level 5 in 2017, it had grand plans for the autonomous vehicle (AV) division. “This is too strategic an area for us not to be a player,” Luc Vincent, the Google executive tapped to lead…
In a nutshell, Doppler radar is a specialized tracking system that uses the Doppler effect (Doppler shift) to determine the location and velocity of storms and precipitation. Now, let’s crack open that shell and get to the nuts and bolts…
A&R Logistics will get a holistic view of driver operations by employing Idelic’s Safety Suite. A&R, a supply chain services company with a niche in the chemical industry, announced its partnership with Idelic, a software company that focused on trucking…
Results of a quarterly industrial real estate survey conducted by Prologis (NYSE: PLD) showed a surge in activity in response to “strong retail sales and inventory restocking.” After steadily increasing from a reading of 56 in the fourth quarter to…
A subsidiary of Chorus Aviation (TSX: CHR) last month began flying packages for Purolator Inc., Canada’s largest courier, with turboprop aircraft under a three-year contract to serve the U.S. cross-border market, the companies announced Wednesday. The expanded air capacity is…
A survey of 500 restaurants and 1,000 consumers released in February found that 62% of restaurant revenues in 2021 are expected to come through online channels. In addition, the survey, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of payments provider Square…
Global real-time transportation visibility provider project44 recently announced it has expanded its capabilities in China to allow shippers to track and monitor their truckload shipments within Asia. FreightWaves interviewed the company’s chief product officer, Vernon O’Donnell, to discuss the development…
A year after the global pandemic nearly zeroed out Class 8 truck orders, the reopening of the economy is stressing supply chains, making it unlikely that any of April’s 33,500 orders will be produced this year. The situation is practically…
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