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Fleets struggle to turn safety data into action
I barely saw the aggressive driver swerve off a side street before he entered the lane right in front of me. In response, I hit the brakes hard, but the loaded trailer hitched behind me forced the truck to keep rolling much farther than…
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Americold forms $1.3 billion joint venture with private equity firm
Companies leasing industrial real estate for logistics use are increasingly moving large-scale distribution activity away from coastal port markets and toward lower-cost inland logistics hubs, according to a report from Cushman &…
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Trucking fleets embrace gen AI, but data problems slow growth
Industrial cable, connector, and accessories distributor Lapp USA has turned a labor-intensive, error-prone inventory process into a nightly automated workflow that provides reliable visibility, reduces costs, and improves customer…
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U.S. Bank: Shipper spending rose sharply in Q1
Shipper spending rose sharply in the first quarter of 2026 as tightening capacity and a surge in diesel fuel prices pushed freight costs significantly higher, even as shipment volumes remained largely flat, according to the latest U.S.…
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Gartner: Companies who choose AI over new hires will pay penalty
Industrial cable, connector, and accessories distributor Lapp USA has turned a labor-intensive, error-prone inventory process into a nightly automated workflow that provides reliable visibility, reduces costs, and improves customer…
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How to train your trucker
I barely saw the aggressive driver swerve off a side street before he entered the lane right in front of me. In response, I hit the brakes hard, but the loaded trailer hitched behind me forced the truck to keep rolling much farther than…
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China places AI-powered robots at center of Five-Year Plan
In its latest Five-Year Plan of strategic economic moves, China will aim to pivot its artificial intelligence (AI) research towards physical applications with robots as main drivers for economic growth, according to the International…
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Aurora and Volvo team up for autonomous truck route from TX to OK
The global rollout of self-driving cars has been slowed by regulatory and liability concerns in many regions, but the pace of adoption in China has now jumped to a point where trucks equipped with assisted driving systems collectively…
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Logistics Plus founder and CEO Jim Berlin steps down to become chairman
“Most supply chains today don't have a visibility problem,” explains Vishwa Ram, Penske Logistics’s vice president of Data Science and Analytics. “They have a fragmentation problem. So, if you are within a single system, you have perfect…
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Transforming inventory operations | DC Velocity
Many of us rely on GPS (global positioning system) technology every day. But what we may not realize is that the system is vulnerable to criminals, hackers, and a range of other bad actors. Between jamming GPS signals and mimicking real…
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