iTECH: Wi-Fi Comes to Truck Stops

Wi-Fi "hot spots" are breaking out all over — maybe even at a truck stop near you.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
November 7, 2003

Can Automation Help Make Ports More Secure?

Customs authorities overseeing U.S. ports want to focus more intently on cargo that poses a potential security threat. But to do that they need relief from the demands of monitoring millions of incoming containers deemed no danger.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
September 10, 2003

iTECH: A Remedy for Trucking's Traffic Woes

Will there one be an INTI? The Integrated Network exists today in some measure in some parts of the country.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
July 7, 2003

iTECH: Data Mining for a Wealth of Information

In the task of data mining, questions or “queries” are analogous to the tools of the miner’s trade — a drill, a pickax, a shovel.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
May 5, 2003

iTECH: Managing the Multifaceted Operation

To meet multiple demands of users involved in more than one segment of trucking, software providers strive for greater flexibility in their offerings.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
March 17, 2003

iTECH: Smooth Operators

It’s been said that hiring a consultant can be like paying someone to look at your watch and tell you what time it is. But the people who form the management team at Double D Express do not subscribe to that notion.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
March 10, 2003

iTECH: The Key to Trucking Intelligence

Tim Van de Merwe, internal logistics manager for Associated Food Stores, has a happy tale to tell. Like most such tales, it begins darkly, with the cooperatively owned wholesale distributor in Salt Lake City struggling to keep track of the trailers in its yards.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
January 21, 2003

iTECH: The Right Stuff - Searching for Maintenance Software

If you want maintenance software, the first step is to recruit management to your cause. Then you can go shopping.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
December 9, 2002

iTECH: The Online Classroom - Open 24/7

Interactive online learning can be a valuable complement to traditional training and professional development programs.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
October 7, 2002

iTECH: Supply Chain Efficiency -- It's All About Timing

The basic concerns of supply chain management may not have changed all that much since terrorists attacked the United States approximately one year ago.

Stephen Bennett | Special to Transport Topics
August 26, 2002