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Order Backlogs Lessen, Contract Rates Fall

With consumer demand stagnating and capacity loosening over the past 12 months, the spot market has continued to soften, causing owner-operators to enroll with larger fleets.

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Transportation Platform Streamlines Procuring Freight

Trimble Transportation

This agile transportation procurement platform assists carriers and shippers in uncovering better ways to move freight together.

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Fleet Management

Kiosk for Supply Chain TMS Keeps Drivers In-Cab to Improve Safety

The IntelliTrans mobile app delivers driver’s GPS coordinates to confirm they are on-site, enables drivers to review and acknowledge gate agreements, safety requirements, shipment details and other information and e-sign.

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Virtual Job Assessment Tool for Commercial Drivers

VJT for Drivers enables recruiting teams responsible for large volume hiring to quickly, ethically and more accurately identify best-fit candidates based on job-specific content.

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Supply Chain Education

British International Freight Association, Manpower Develop Training Program to Recruit Candidates in Freight Forwarding

British International Freight Association (BIFA)

The Freight Development Pathway to help identify, attract and train suitable candidates from outside of the freight forwarding and logistics sector for career opportunities with freight forwarding and logistics companies.

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67% of Americans Say Video-Based Safety Systems Would Improve Driver Safety

Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions

The vast majority of respondents (89%) believe commercial truck drivers could benefit from further safety training.

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Optimizing the Supply Chain to Lower Fuel Costs

iGPS Logistics, LLC (formerly known as Intelligent Global Pooling Systems)

As supply chain woes continue and gas prices remain at record highs around the country, many businesses are looking for ways to cut down on fuel usage. Here's some options.

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Echo Global Logistics Acquires Fastmore Logistics

Echo Global Logistics

The acquisition provides Echo with a unique point of entry into an expansive network of expedited brokerage for the international freight forwarding market.

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Emerging Technologies

Nearshoring, Autonomous Vehicles, Data Science to Create Seismic Shift in Future of Freight

Cloud services providers, megaretailers, vehicle manufacturers and tech startups are pursuing the transportation industry and its profit streams.

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Fuel Costs Overturn Driver Shortage as Top Trucking Issue: ATRI Study

American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)

Fuel prices were ranked as the top industry concern, replacing the driver shortage, which had been the No. 1 issue for five years in a row.

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How Low Mississippi River Levels Impact the Global Supply Chain

Everstream Analytics

It’s in the range of possibilities that some areas could shut down barge traffic altogether and present a significant impact on already disrupted supply chains.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Biden-Harris Pledge $703M to Improve Port Infrastructure, Strengthen U.S. Supply Chains

More than 60% of the funds will benefit ports in disadvantaged communities and several of the projects will help reduce emissions at the ports through electrification.

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