Efforts to streamline via technological collaboration the scheduling of truck drivers waiting dockside are well underway, according to executives speaking at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event in Cleveland. Convoy, J.B. Hunt and Uber Freight have been working officially since December to create and standardize a process that uses technological tools such as application programming…
CLEVELAND — China is far less the globally threatening bogeyman it projects as its 40-year economic boom cycle ebbs, geopolitical strategist George Friedman says. And all the saber-rattling about China invading Taiwan needs to be taken with a grain of salt as well. “The United States has done something really cool that very few people…
Online marketplace PalletTrader reported Wednesday that it has reached 1 million transactions since its launch about eight months ago. The milestone comes as it rolls out an expanded service, which handles the e-commerce management for companies that would rather outsource, announced at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event in Cleveland. The standard PalletTrader service, which…
A letter obtained by FreightWaves shows less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. is seeking to defer health and welfare as well as pension contribution payments for the next two months. A Friday letter penned by Yellow Chief Financial Officer Dan Olivier is asking for a deferral for plan contributions for the months of July and August. The…
Trade has proven time and time again that it can show the health of a country’s economy and the health of logistics. The movement of trade is influenced by supply and demand, not by the thumping of chests of politicians. You have hand-wringing today about the health of China, but if you follow trade, you…