On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer discussed the changes in the transportation industry over the past century with Bill Skinner, president, and Tim Kordula, vice president of risk management of Skinner Transfer Corp. In 1932, Earl R. Skinner began by delivering his neighbors’ milk to the local creamery in Reedsburg,…
The freight industry is buzzing with talk about a coming market shift. While high-frequency data does suggest that the ongoing freight recession is beginning to ease, the climb back up is expected to be slow for carriers. In today’s environment, carriers continue to grapple with an oversaturated market and less-than-ideal economic conditions, making it difficult…
ATLANTA — With AI in general and generative AI in particular the talk of the FreightWaves Future of Supply Chain event, Megan Orth of C.H. Robinson reached for several analogies to describe generative AI’s use at her freight brokerage and in logistics generally. “It’s kind of like APIs 10 years ago,” Orth said, referring to…
On episode 721 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is coming to you live from FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain in Atlanta. We’re getting into LTL, broker tech stacks, machine learning, and collaborative communication platforms. Plus, we’ll get you up-to-date on everything that went down at the event. With special guests Bobby Russell, EVP, Sales at…
WASHINGTON — Regulators want to hear “diverse experiences and perspectives” from the trucking industry on plans to update how the government rates motor carriers on safety to determine when a motor carrier is not fit to operate. To help accomplish that goal, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced it will hold an in-person listening…