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Special Skill Set Needed for Drivers Who Deliver Through the Front Door

We hear a lot about how consumers' changing lifestyles and shopping habits are impacting retail supply chains in areas like demand planning and inventory management. Much less is said, however, regarding the impact of these trends at the very end of the supply chain, where professional drivers deliver the last mile.

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DAT Solutions Launches InView Fleet Services

DAT Solutions LLC has created DAT InView, a fleet-management application that allows small for-hire carriers to track their power units and locate them instantaneously.

October Sales of Class 8 Trucks Down from Year Ago

Preliminary figures for the month of October, show that 47,200 Classes 5-8 vehicle orders were booked, up 14% from September but down 30% compared to the robust net orders in October 2014.

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Convoy Launches On-Demand Service for Regional, Local Trucking

Convoy is the name of a Seattle, Wash., start-up that is offering an on-demand service for regional and local trucking.

King Solutions Launches Truck Freight Management System

King Solutions has developed MyGameChanger, a cloud-based freight management system for truckload and less-than-truckload transportation data.

Matchback Systems Unveils Tool to Optimize Inland Street Turns

Matchback Systems Inc. has launched MatchAdvisor, an application to help customers optimize inland street turns, improve container utilization and reduce emissions.

Modest Profit Growth Predicted for European Road Freight Market

The European road freight market grew by 2.9 percent in 2014, but markets there have distinctly different dynamics in both supply and demand, which means no single, cohesive European road freight market exists.

Odyssey Logistics Debuts Service for Metals Industry

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. has launched an international logistics service for the metals industry.

Old Dominion Freight Line Teams With Mallory Alexander

Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. has entered into a strategic alliance with Mallory Alexander International Logistics LLC for ocean freight-forwarding services.

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Cheaper Diesel Causes Sales of Natural-Gas-Powered Trucks to Decline

NG powered Class 8 truck and bus sales continue, but at a slower pace compared to 2014, as well as when calculated as a percentage of the total market, according to a report from ACT Research. The "Natural Gas Quarterly" attributes the rapidly declining cost of diesel with making the return on investment for adoption of natural gas less lucrative.

CPG Supply Chain Leaders Focus on Transportation, Network Redesign, Report Says

The most pressing concerns for consumer packaged goods companies today are transportation and network redesign - priorities that just two years ago barely registered on their radar, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group and the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

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Truck Drivers in U.S. Pleased to Find They Are in Demand

After years of spending long hours behind the wheel without seeing their paychecks grow, U.S. truck drivers now have employers fighting for their services.

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