Technology
Commercial freight transportation businesses rely on data, intelligence, and novel solutions for operational efficiency. Transport Topics technology coverage investigates available technologies, real-world applications of business solutions, and the strategies necessary for advancement. News topics focus on the latest applied science, and issues range from autonomous vehicle and robotics innovations to management software, tracking and transparency, data analytics, blockchain, and the internet of things.
iTECH: No Middle Ground on Net Neutrality
Google’s recent move to forsake Net Neutrality — the premise that all content on the Web should be distributed evenhandedly — threatens to have serious consequences for trucking companies’ websites, especially if other Internet titans follow suit.
December 13, 2010Opinion: Alternative Risk Transfer Options
Ensuring the safe delivery of every load should be a top priority in the trucking industry. Yet, even with the most sophisticated technologies and best risk-management techniques, bad things can happen to good people — or good carriers.
December 13, 2010Fleets Seek New Technology to Aid Safety, Savings, Fuel
Managers of large fleets want to buy improved equipment and advanced technologies despite the recent recession but are insisting upon payback periods of four years or less, according to a recent survey.
November 29, 2010JBS Carriers Ordered to Install EOBRs on All Trucks as Part of FMCSA Deal
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it has ordered JBS Carriers of Greeley, Colo., to install electronic onboard recorders on its roughly 700-truck fleet.
November 15, 2010FMCSA Orders Colorado Fleet to Install EOBRs
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered a Colorado carrier to install electronic onboard recorders on its fleet by March, after deeming the trucking company in violation of federal hours of service rules.
November 9, 2010PeopleNet, Trinium Partner to Integrate Products
PeopleNet has partnered with Trinium Technologies to integrate PeopleNet’s communications system with Trinium's software, PeopleNet said.
November 8, 2010Purchase of EIS Makes McLeod Software Ready to Compete for LTL Business
McLeod Software’s purchase of Enterprise Information Solutions positions the No. 2 provider of enterprise software for motor carriers to compete for the first time for business from less-than-truckload companies — a trucking niche that appears hungry for new technology, vendors said.
October 17, 2010iTECH: Connecting Technology to the Corporate Suite
Considering the treatment that a budding chief information officer once might have gotten on the playground from a budding truck driver, it is no small thing in 2010 to hear that the successful trucking company desperately needs both of these people to move the freight and make a profit.
October 12, 2010Map-Maker Rand McNally Takes Stake in DriverTech
Rand McNally took a minority ownership stake in DriverTech LLC, positioning the Skokie, Ill., map maker to compete directly with other mobile communications providers.
October 12, 2010McLeod Acquires Maker of LTL Software
McLeod Software has acquired Enterprise Information Solutions Inc., a software firm specializing in the less-than-truckload market, the companies jointly announced.
