The U.S. Postal Service’s 2024 National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign is underway, offering information on how dog owners can help ensure safe mail delivery and enhance employee safety. The campaign – “Don’t let your dog bite the hand that serves you” – started on Sunday and runs through this Sunday. According to a Postal Service…
ATLANTA — Jordan Graft sees a lot of corruption, bad actors and fraudsters in the trucking industry. “People used to be able to hire a carrier based on three emails, passing a rules assessment and an insurance certification and that’s just not possible anymore. The world’s just changed,” Graft, founder and CEO of Highway, said…
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…