Fuel Transport

Truckers get $7,800 COVID-19 vaccine bonus at Canadian carrier

A tractor-trailer of Canadian trucking Fuel Transport is driven on a snowy day.

A trucking and logistics company in Canada has taken an unusual — and expensive — step by giving a CA$10,000 bonus to drivers who already are or get fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Montreal-based Fuel Transport is paying out the bonus — equivalent to $7,800 — in monthly installments over a year. To be eligible, drivers will need to get their first shot by Jan. 15, a week before the U.S. vaccination requirement for foreign essential workers takes effect. 

“Once the mandate came down from the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckers-get-7800-covid-19-vaccine-bonus-at-canadian-carrier

Industry success calls for data sharing among competitors

Transparency has become a transportation buzzword in recent years, but visibility provider Tive has taken its dedication to information sharing to the next level. The company recently announced its new Open Visibility Network (OVN) partnership with both project44 and FourKites. 

Tive, FourKites and project44 believe that collaboration and data sharing among different visibility providers is the only way to expand the breadth and depth of visibility within the industry as a whole. In a model in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/industry-success-calls-for-data-sharing-among-competitors

The Daily Dash: UPS’ blowout quarter; Mayor Pete now Secretary Pete

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, the surge in e-commerce resulted in a strong Q4 for UPS, which easily beat analysts’ estimates. Plus, the U.S. Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg as U.S. Department of Transportation secretary, and Forward Air announces a general rate increase.

Times are good

As e-commerce surged in 2020, especially heading into the holidays, UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) saw demand for its services rise, and that led to a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-daily-dash-ups-blowout-quarter-mayor-pete-now-secretary-pete

Canada-based Fuel Transport adopts project44’s Advanced Visibility Platform

Fuel Transport has become the latest Canadian partner of project44, implementing the supply chain visibility company’s technology into its platform.

“Our API-led integration with project44 snaps perfectly into our existing software infrastructure,” said Ronald McIntyre, Fuel’s vice president of technology and innovation. “It provides accurate, timely data to our operations team, and ultimately, our customers. Instead of chasing data, we can focus on providing essential services during these...

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