EMCVoice: How Big Data Is Changing Long-Haul Trucking
By Erin Richey On a long stretch of highway, a semi-trailer sends a message to a trucking company that the truck’s refrigeration unit is warming up. Before the temperature in the trailer has a chance to affect the product being transported, the company notifies the truck driver of where to get [...]
Can big data overcome supply chain selfishness and silo management?
Software is giving us new insights into large-scale efficiency, but logistics veterans say companies aren’t always ready to think big.
Big data and machine learning may help reduce freight costs
If companies wish to reduce freight costs, collecting and analyzing data may be a good place to start.
Trucking Regulations: What Shippers Need To Do
There has been an increase of trucking regulations as of late. We explore how shippers respond in order to better manage freight.
How big data will help with traffic management
The collision of big data and the internet of things, with a network of connected cars and sensors, means traffic management is getting smarter
Big data shows how 'selfless' driving could ease traffic congestion
Would you take a longer route to work for the good of all?
Short-Haul Carriers get Creative to Find Drivers
Trucking firms use better benefits, contests with cash prizes, employee appreciation barbecues to encourage employees to stay put.
Finding the Right Data in ‘Big Data’
There is a lot of talk about how trucking can maximize the value of “big data,” but sometimes lost in the discussion is how to ensure fleets are using the right data.
Big data finds the loneliest roads in the U.S. ripe for a road trip
Geotab, a fleet-tracking company, put all of its big data to use, bringing us the 50 loneliest roads in America, one for each state. It also created a handy interactive map, which you can interact with here.
5 More Tips to Fight The Capacity Crunch in Trucking
Is the capacity crunch in trucking getting you down? You don't have to fall victim to it. Use these 5 tips to continue to fight back.
How do you define regional haul?
There are some common themes about regional haul but just as many disagreements about how fleets and drivers see regional haul.
Your guide to trucking and freight brokerage factoring
Find out how factoring can be the solution for your trucking or freight business’ cash flow.
Serious Considerations When Hauling Temperature Sensitive Loads
Whether your business is frozen food, pharmaceuticals, fine chocolates, chemicals or home improvement products, shipping your materials or products at the wrong temperature can mean major problems down the road. Here are a few things to keep in mind when dealing with temperature s
Supply chain trends trucking needs to watch
What supply chain trends will impact motor carriers
Supply chain economics and how local trucking companies are responding
One of the big business challenges of the last year can be summed up in two words: supply chain. Defined as the network between a supplier and business before it reaches a customer, supply chains impact everything from retail items at the local grocery store to parts for manufacturers and numerous areas in between...
What makes a successful shipper of choice? 4 experts weigh in
A tight trucking market drove shippers to adjust their operating models and position themselves as good customers to carriers.
What is a Full-Service Freight Factoring Company?
What makes Apex America’s favorite full-service factoring company is that we want our clients to succeed and grow their trucking companies.
How to Keep your Import Data Confidential
How to avoid competition learning about your international business. Avoid sales calls too! Did you know that your confidential ocean import and export bill of lading manifest information is available for review? We can help.
Brokers cannot agree how many dry bulk ships exist |
Extraordinarily varying data sets are making business decisions very hard for the world’s supra and handy owners. Analysis by Alphabulk, part of AXS Marine, shows a huge variance – close to 1,000 ships – on the existing total bulker fleet (see chart below). Alphabulk took the bulker fleet numbers from four leading brokers – BRS …
How Politicians Have Conspired To Make Trucking Deadlier And Drivers Exhausted
The inside story of how the trucking industry and politicians have conspired to make our highways less safe.
