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Climbing rates, detention times turn LTL fleets toward trailer tracking tech

Historically, the less-than-truckload carrier market has resisted trailer tracking technology, since locating LTL cargo has been a simpler task compared with full truckload. But recent labor shortages, supply chain congestion and extremely tight capacity have created the perfect storm: exacerbated accessorial detention charges and growing tensions between shippers and LTL carriers. As a result, LTL carriers have implemented drop-trailer programs as a way to gain more capacity.

With drop-and-hook...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/climbing-rates-detention-times-turn-ltl-fleets-toward-trailer-tracking-tech

Day & Ross chooses PowerFleet trailer tracking solution for US fleet

Dan & Ross truck on the highway

On Monday, New Jersey-based PowerFleet announced that its customer Day & Ross will expand deployment of PowerFleet’s LV-500 solar-powered trailer tracking solution across its U.S. fleet of 3,000 trailers. PowerFleet is a leading global provider of subscription-based wireless solutions that track and manage assets like industrial trucks, containers, cargo and fleets.

Day & Ross ⁠— a pivotal player in North American transportation and logistics ⁠—  first deployed PowerFleet’s trailer tracking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/day-ross-chooses-powerfleet-trailer-tracking-solution-for-us-fleet

Carrier networks relying on 3G don’t have the time they think

Food-as-software will make a chunk of ag-sector trucking obsolete (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

While the 3G sunset deadlines will wrap in  2022 for cellular providers like Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, there are still some companies in the  trucking industry that have hesitated to upgrade their 2G or 3G cellular devices to 4G LTE for various reasons: budgetary concerns, uncertainty over which tech vendor to use and a belief that the deadline will continue to get pushed out. In a poll of carriers that haven’t yet taken action, 14% said they simply lack the understanding of what a 3G sunset...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carrier-networks-relying-on-3g-dont-have-the-time-they-think

Thefts on the rise: How camera technology acts as security system

Statistically speaking, summertime has the highest frequency of vehicle theft, which is why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declared July as Vehicle Theft Prevention Month. Not only do drivers need to consider shifts in behavior but also the technology solutions available to bolster safety and theft prevention. 

2020 holds the record for the highest number of vehicle thefts in the last decade, increasing 9.2% year-over-year to 873,080 thefts. These thefts ranged from entire...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/thefts-on-the-rise-how-camera-technology-acts-as-security-system

Spiking consumer demand for sustainability makes visibility-tech a must

Truck driving on highway with wind turbines

2020 marked a turning point in consumer behavior. Not only did the sudden stay-home requirements shift how people shopped for food and other basic necessities, research shows that the shared struggle of COVID-19 and the witnessing of California wildfires and Midwestern floods gave consumers the time, space and motivation to evaluate their priorities when selecting certain brands. Namely, consumers began to look for brands that valued not just their personal well-being, but the protection of the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spiking-consumer-demand-for-sustainability-makes-visibility-tech-a-must

Video technology offers safety and savings in litigious society

As video technology in and around the truck advances, it also results in pushback from drivers who feel uneasy with the perception of amplified monitoring. But increased use of camera technology irrefutably removes the guesswork in liability claims, whether a driver has an accident or must contend with cargo damage. 

In an interview with FreightWaves, owner-operator Henry Albert of Laredo, Texas, said, “I’d like to say that drivers are becoming more open-minded. Driver-facing cameras have saved...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/video-technology-offers-safety-and-savings-in-litigious-society

Private fleets are an expensive response to ongoing volatility

truck passing on highway

The hunt for available capacity is the ongoing refrain since the pandemic shifted consumer buying habits. According to a recent McKinsey survey of CPG companies, 80% of those companies have no expectation that pandemic-fueled transportation costs will decline anytime soon. 

A May report from BSI, a London-based standards and supply chain intelligence firm, suggested that while immediate effects of the pandemic are easing worldwide, the long tail of the pandemic is ongoing and may include...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/private-fleets-are-an-expensive-response-to-ongoing-volatility

Fleets delaying 3G-to-4G transition may face disruptions before sunset deadlines

White truck convoy road forest roadside - stock - credit Quintin Gellar and Pexels

Telecom providers are currently contending with two major shifts: the gradual phasing out of 3G networks and the introduction of the highly anticipated 5G infrastructure ⁠— one that promises sweeping advances in automation and supply chain communication. 

While trucking fleets still using 3G devices have, in some cases, until the end of 2022 to transition to 4G/LTE, many are procrastinating ⁠— and understandably so. Outside of the financial cost of upgrading, they will have to park their fleets,...

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Borderlands: Rural areas the next e-commerce frontier?

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Rural areas are the next e-commerce frontier; Texas FedEx distribution center acquired; Authentic Logistics opens Phoenix office; and CBP seizes counterfeit N95 masks in Houston. 

Rural areas the next e-commerce frontier?

The pandemic accelerated e-commerce growth across most countries during 2020, when lockdown policies restricted much in-store retail shopping.

Cities...

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All eyes on East Coast ports as volumes spike, Ever Given fallout looms

The Ever Given is no longer lodged in the Suez Canal, but the pileup it caused has everyone wondering what repercussions may materialize in the coming weeks. While most of the cargo containers transiting the Suez Canal move from Asia to Europe, significant volumes also travel from Southeast Asia and India to the East Coast of the U.S.

Over the next few weeks, interested parties will be looking to East Coast ports to see whether those repercussions mean a loss of domestic freight volumes. But...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/all-eyes-on-east-coast-ports-as-volumes-spike-ever-given-fallout-looms

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