Volatile year shows growing pains of in-app freight pricing, value of negotiation
From 80 cents a mile to $5 in the course of a year — rates extremities brought on by the pandemic’s disruption have accelerated two trends that converge in increasing utility of brokers’ mobile freight engines, alongside carriers’ growing skittishness…
Trucking Needs to Lead the Way as COVID-19 Cases Surge
“You hear me say it all the time – nothing we do is worth getting hurt or hurting others,” said Werner CEO Derek Leathers in a new video to company associates about the importance of not letting our guard down on COVID-19. It’s a message the entire ind…
Cargo theft reports up 7% for third quarter
Average loss was $152,373
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18 carriers recognized for their safety records
Honored by TCA
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Netradyne Launches Smaller Dashcam: Driveri D-210
The D-210 in-cab camera joins Netradyne’s flagship Driveri (now named D-410), a vision-based safety platform that combines artificial intelligence with video, advanced onboard sensors and edge computing to detect, reason and determine causality of events.
Electrified Trucking: Getting in Gear Should Begin Now
There are complex questions to address in adding electric trucks to your fleet, but that’s all the more reason to get started sooner rather than later.
Giving back: Pink Kalmar Ottawa yard spotters auctioned to benefit breast cancer research
Kalmar Ottawa, TCI (California) and Avenel Truck & Equipment (N.J.) join an untold number of Overdrive readers who’ve devised awareness efforts ranging from specially themed trucks, raffles, auctions, convoys and more in service of awareness of the…
Port Bottlenecks Trigger Federal Investigation
Severe bottlenecks at a number of U.S. ocean ports have prompted the Federal Maritime Commission to look into whether ocean lines’ detention, demurrage, and container policies are making the situation worse.
Carriers’ operational costs fell from 2018 to 2019
ATRI’s annual Operational Costs in Trucking report found that the per-mile costs of trucking contracted from $1.821 in 2018 to $1.652 in 2019 – a 9% decrease. And other news: The updated ag, livestock definitions take effect Dec. 9; more IRS guidance o…
Council Aims to Digitize LTL
A group of more than 20 motor carriers, brokers/3PLs, shippers, and technology providers has formed the Digital LTL Council to develop a set of standards for the automation and digitization of less-than-truckload shipments.