You don’t need to be a freight analyst to know that profit in trucking is made—or lost—between the loads. It’s not just about what you haul. It’s about how you move between hauls. That’s where fuel ...

May 14, 2009 How can companies maximize truck capacity utilization and at the same time plan trips so that the burden on the environment and transport costs are reduced? A new software system couples ...

If your entire week is shaped by whatever pops up on the load board that morning, you’re not running a plan—you’re reacting. That approach is what keeps carriers in the cycle of inconsistent weeks, ...

Even at a time when artificial intelligence is working its way into everything we do, many trucking fleets still use transportation management software with outdated load-planning tools. These often ...

Zahi Mitri knew there had to be a better way. The vice president of innovation and technology at Challenger Motor Freight was frustrated that the company was still planning loads the old-fashioned way ...

Venture capital and private equity investors have poured billions into the trucking and logistics (T&L) industry to fund startups whose aim is to digitize the load-matching process. Most of these ...

ATLANTA. When it comes to adopting electronic logging devices (ELDs), a panel of three fleet executives here at McLeod Software’s 2017 User Conference argued that the biggest challenge is not the ...

Overdrive‘s sister fleet publication CCJ each month features an innovator among fleets with a focus on a particular aspect of the business. Last month, that innovator was the Load One expediting fleet ...

In large-scale combat operations (LSCO), the U.S. must move and maneuver forces through intra-theater and inter-theater modes of transportation. This complex challenge requires efficient integration ...