Technology provider LG Business Solutions USA announced Tuesday it will be launching its warehousing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in the United States during industry trade show MODEX on Monday in Atlanta. Its CLOi CarryBot family of robots, introduced to Asian markets in 2022, includes two products: the Mounting Type CLOi CarryBot and the Rolltainer Type…
The annual Work Truck Week and American Trucking Associations Maintenance & Technology Council pile on stakeholder-specific dispatches each March. But this week bigger stories originated outside the convention halls in Indianapolis and New Orleans. The Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington is as good a starting point as any. Lordstown Motors gets an SEC comeuppance…
BlueGrace Logistics, one of the largest 3PLs in the United States, has acquired optimization platform Evos Smart Tools, which the company says will benefit customers by streamlining logistics. The logistics company announced the acquisition on Wednesday. Evos is a SaaS optimization platform that helps shippers boost resources and lower costs through advanced algorithms, Florida-based BlueGrace…
ArcBest continued to execute a freight swap during February, replacing transactional shipments with more freight from key accounts. The actions led to another decline in tonnage, which was mostly offset by higher yields that are supportive of margins, a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed. The company’s asset-based unit, which includes less-than-truckload…
Jobs in the truck transportation sector mostly treaded water in February while warehouse jobs continued their long slide, according to the monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the truck transportation sector, the loss of 300 jobs was the smallest one-month change up or down since August 2022, when an increase of 300…