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On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller about the personal impact of the sale of U.S. Xpress to Knight-Swift. FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack hears that produce season is going to be weak this year — and that’s bad news for truckers. Plus, she looks at the…
Maersk, the world’s second-largest ocean carrier, gambled that a U.S.-led military force, Operation Prosperity Guardian, would allow safe passage through the Red Sea. That gamble has failed. On Tuesday, Maersk said it will suspend Red Sea transits indefinitely and reroute ships around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. The decision followed attacks on the container ship…
For nearly two years, capital markets have punished Zim, the Israeli containership line whose fleet is the 10th-largest on the ocean. Zim’s model, which involves operating a subscale, highly chartered fleet of smaller vessels almost wholly exposed to the spot market, took a beating when collapsing spot rates collided with its high COVID-era lease expenses….
C.H. Robinson on Tuesday provided details on a technological milestone it touched on during its first-quarter earnings call last week. The 3PL said it now processes 2,000 customer quote requests daily via email for 2,268 customers using a sophisticated large-language model. This AI technology, trained extensively on vast data sets, enables the company to efficiently…
Chart of the Week: Carrier Details Net Changes in Trucking Authorities – USA SONAR: CDNCA.USA Since the start of November, net active truckload operating authorities have dropped by 9,000 — an approximately 12% increase over the same period last year, according to Carrier Details’ analysis of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data. The operating authorities measured here…
Colorado State University researchers have found that ELDs are “potential cybersecurity threat vectors” and there is an urgent need to make them more secure. Researchers Jake Jepson, Rik Chatterjee and Jeremy Daily uncovered ELD vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized control of vehicle systems and data, as well as widespread fleet disruptions. Product designers, programmers,…