Logistics

Discarded plastic that winds up in oceans traps marine animals, pollutes waters, breaks down into microplastics and can end up on the dinner plates of seafood lovers.  Maybe you heard the World Economic Forum's dire prediction: There will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by weight by 2050....

CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) is shuffling its leadership roster, the company announced Monday. Kevin Boone is now executive vice president of sales and marketing, after having served mostly recently as chief financial officer at CSX.  Mark Wallace, who has been serving as executive vice president of sales...

On today's episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about moving freight 145 million years in the making: dinosaurs. Find out how velociraptors for one of the most popular film franchises on Earth, "Jurassic Park," are moved. Plus, pulling tugs, moving wine and an inside look at the world of...

Loadsmith ⁠— a fast-growing midmarket brokerage in Denver ⁠— has selected San Francisco-based Parade as a core technology partner to accelerate its capacity management and digital brokerage platform.  To maintain its authentic customer and driver experience in the transition, Loadsmith has also...

Social media giants are trying to engage their users in new ways and offering e-commerce shopping options within the platforms has become a common approach in recent months. Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) is the latest to expand its shopping offerings, announcing Shopping Lists. The service allows Pinners...

Difficulty finding drivers remains high, as does overall truckload demand. Early retirements, diminished driver school enrollments and compliance with the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse are just a few of the hurdles facing fleets, which are struggling to keep equipment running. More carriers...

In April 2013, agents from the FBI and IRS raided the Knoxville headquarters of the largest truck stop chain in the United States: Pilot Flying J. It was part of a massive investigation into a fuel rebate scam. In all, 14 former Pilot employees pleaded guilty in what was known as "jacking the...

Global logistics real estate provider Prologis says it is on track to meet its goals for 100% carbon-neutral construction and 100% LED lighting across its 984 million-square-foot portfolio of buildings by 2025. In advance of World Environment Day on Saturday, Prologis on Thursday shared its 2020...

Brain E. Gorton, Conrail's president and chief operating officer since April, recently chatted with FreightWaves about his vision for Conrail, a U.S. Northeast terminal railroad jointly owned by CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC). As described in an October 2019 FreightWaves piece,...

FourKites, a global real-time supply chain visibility platform, announced Monday that the U.S. Patent Office has awarded the company a patent (U.S. Patent No. 11,1017,347) for its Smart Forecasted Arrival (SFA), which provides visibility to freight while in transit even if the truck or other mode...

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Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) told the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack in late May.  The Lisle, Illinois-based truck and bus manufacturer said it is "minimizing potential impact" by working with third-party cybersecurity experts and federal...

Until a reversal on Friday, the share price of Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) had been skyrocketing, adding 59% to its value in the past two months. Nothing is happening in the business to drive such appreciation. If anything, the clock is ticking before competitors in the electric delivery van...

The Democrats' version of the highway bill retains many of the truck-centric policies of last year's version with two notable add-ons: guidance on truck brokers and dispatch services and a policy for using truckers' electronic logging devices (ELDs) for government research. The $547 billion "...

OneRail has expanded its final-mile delivery offerings to include an additional 1 million couriers as part of its Logistics Partner Network. OneRail coordinates rate shopping and the execution of shipments across all final-mile shipping modes, completely automating dispatch and tracking. The...