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Echo Global Logistics | September 13, 2023

Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics, Inc., has introduced automated carrier negotiations to its online carrier platform, EchoDrive. This new feature enables carriers to bid on available loads and receive instant notifications of acceptance or counteroffers, streamlining the freight booking process. Dave Menzel, President and COO at Echo, stated, Echo co...

Supply Chain

Gatik | March 16, 2023

One of the leading autonomous middle mile logistics companies, Gatik, announced a multi-year commercial collaboration with Kroger to transport customer orders within the Dallas distribution network of Kroger. This collaboration will allow Kroger to use Gatik's autonomous box trucks to improve delivery frequency, reliability, and responsiveness. Under the terms of the agreement, Gatik's autonomous medium-duty box trucks will transport fresh, customer-favorite products fro...

Supply Chain Dive | January 21, 2020

The 2005 Texas City BP oil refinery explosion, the 2009 Colgan Air Crash, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have something in common, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — workplace fatigue was a contributing factor. Mental and physical fatigue costs the U.S. economy over $136 billion in health-related lost production time, OSHA said. In manufacturing specifically, over 57% of workers...

FedEx | September 28, 2020

FedEx is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery, CEO Fred Smith said during the annual stockholder meeting Monday. "This initiative deals with smaller turboprop airplanes and in this case the single-engine C208, which we are looking at putting in very remote and uninhabited areas as part of our network," Smith said. The company does not have plans to replace its current aircraft fleet with autonomous alternatives, he sai...