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Schneider | June 08, 2022

Schneider, a leading multimodal transportation, intermodal, and logistics services provider, said that it has acquired deBoer Transportation, a Wisconsin-based carrier. The company is intended to be quickly integrated into Schneider's existing businesses, with drivers and equipment deployed to support growth potential in Dedicated and Power Only operations, in line with Schneider's strategy. Blenker, Wisconsin-based deBoer Transportation is a regional and dedicated c...

Transported Asset Protection Association | February 16, 2020

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has launched the most comprehensive industry security standards in its 23-year history to help protect freight facilities and trucking operations from the escalating threat of cargo crime, which now costs supply chains losses of millions of dollars per month. The 2020 revisions of the Association’s Facility Security Requirements (FSR) and Trucking Security Requirements (TSR) – which take effect on 1 July 2020 and are valid for three...

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Aurora Innovation, Inc. | May 19, 2022

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR) and FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) announced the expansion of their pilot program to autonomously move FedEx shipments on an additional commercial lane in Texas. In March 2022, Aurora's next-generation autonomous trucks – based on the new Peterbilt 579 – began to transport FedEx shipments between Aurora’s new terminals in Fort Worth and El Paso. Aurora is making the 600-mile trip on a weekly basis with safety drivers on board an...

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Loadsmart | November 21, 2020

Loadsmart, a leading advanced cargo innovation organization, today reported the fruitful finish of its Series C fundraising. The $90 million round was driven by BlackRock, Inc's. oversaw reserves and included unmistakable vital speculators from the transportation space, for example, TFI International Inc., a North American pioneer in the transportation and logistics industry, and Maersk, the world's leading ocean carrier and a Loadsmart investor since Series A. The arrangement was co-dri...