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Report: U.S. Consumers Are Reluctant to Order Mission-Critical Items for Delivery

A report on current consumer perception and trust for high importance or time critical deliveries, such as medical devices and travel documents indicates there many opportunities to improve.

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Equipment Shortages Snarling U.S. Supply Chains

Logistics executives say sea containers and the steel trailers needed to ferry goods on trucks are in short supply, as efforts to cope with steep inventory imbalances send new backups rippling across supply chains.

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Interview with VW's Trucking CEO

The 55-year-old Swede was named chief executive officer of the Traton trucking unit after a management shakeup last year. He’s to steer a turnaround of the business after Europe’s biggest carmaker struggled for years to improve cooperation between its different commercial-vehicle brands.

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Korean Air Weathered Pandemic Turbulence With Style

Cargo has turned out to be the difference maker for airlines navigating the pandemic. Just look at Korean Air, which has prospered largely because it expanded its substantial cargo business.

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Podcast | The Plight of the Drayage Driver: When Will It Get Better?

The life of the drayage trucker in “normal” times is a difficult one. And these times are anything but. Drew Herpich, chief commercial officer with Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group. He discusses the pressures that are weighing on drivers today, and the prospects for relief.

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How the Changing Nature of Grocery Shopping Impacts Food Logistics

With rapid advances in technology, and a new era of consumer connection and convenience, food logistics is changing.

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How Visibility Can Ease the Pain of Long Chassis Return Times

The trucking industry is still far from solving some of its deepest challenges since the pandemic, such as the shortage of intermodal chassis in circulation.

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How Technology Can Enhance the Uncontracted Freight Process

Businesses are moving away from archaic long-term freight contracts, chasing cheaper and contemporary alternatives. The new, digital and uncontracted freight era has begun.

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California to Approve Plan to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

California is expected to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035 as the state takes dramatic steps to reduce emissions and combat the climate emergency.

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Truck Stop Operator Explores Accommodating Self-Driving Trucks

Truck stop operator Pilot Flying J is taking an equity stake in automated vehicle startup Kodiak Robotics, the first step in what Pilot says will be a broader plan to outfit its highway stations to greet robot trucks.

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Watch: Closing the Loop in Reverse Logistics

Seth Marks, chief merchandising officer with Channel Control Merchants, details the major issues that logistics providers are facing as they deal with increasing volumes of returned products.

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Container Capacity at Felixstowe Drops 37.6% on First Day of Strike

The first day of the strike at Felixstowe — the U.K.’s biggest container port — brought a sharp decline in the incoming TEU capacity at the port.

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