Is the semiconductor chip shortage tapering off, and what’s happening with electric vehicles? Those were some of the questions that Susan Golicic, professor of supply chain management at Colorado State University, addressed at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event in Cleveland on Thursday. Over the past three years, manufacturers struggled to produce new vehicles because…
California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule does not go into effect for another six months, but it is already having unintended consequences for the drayage industry tasked with moving cargo in and out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Speaking at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain even in Cleveland on Thursday, Harbor Trucking…
Global marketer Andrew Lark used a racing analogy to compare how freight companies can survive and even grow their businesses during a recession by focusing on customer experience and marketing. “There’s a great quote that I really love that says the best operators — and many of you are the best operators — know how…
While technological tools to inform local emergency service providers responding to a train derailment have a useful purpose, there are still gaps in how best to disseminate key initial information, according to witnesses at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing on the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio. Key…
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are proposing a sweeping rule that would require all trucks over 10,000 pounds to be equipped with an automatic emergency braking (AEB) system and an electronic stability control (ESC) system that works in conjunction with AEBs. The proposal, issued jointly on Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the…