Furniture retailer Ikea said an affiliate has acquired supply chain software provider Made4net. The deal is expected to improve the company’s end-to-end fulfillment network. The investment arm of Ingka Group, which is Ikea’s largest store owner and operator, made the acquisition on Wednesday. Based in Teaneck, New Jersey, Made4net is a cloud-based supply chain and…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 18 customer complaints of automatic emergency braking activating on Freightliner Cascadias without a hazard present. The false positives led the agency to open a preliminary evaluation, the first step in what could but rarely leads to a forced recall. Manufacturers often recall vehicles during the course of…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Thursday that it has more than doubled the capacity of its Disaster Relief Hub outside of Atlanta by pre-positioning 2.4 million relief items ahead of the 2023 hurricane season. The items will be distributed in the wake of natural disasters to nonprofits and other aid partners that quickly help impacted…
The United States is in a truck parking crisis. According to Dan Dunleavy, director of sales at Freight Ninja, for every 11 drivers there is one parking space. The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration lists the current shortage of more than 40,000 truck parking spaces as a national safety concern. And the American…
This story is part of a series concerning California’s impending regulations on zero-emissions vehicles, which have the potential to upend the American trucking industry. You can follow along with the stories here. As Sean Cocca said at the start of a recent webinar, the ACF rule is here. And then he followed up with an…