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Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight | December 07, 2022

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight announced the formation of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) which aims to solve transportation scheduling challenges by establishing the freight industry's first formal set of appointment scheduling application programming interface (API) standards. Complex, pervasive, industry-wide challenges such as this require collaborative, industry-wide solutions; the makeup of the SSC's founding members underscores the need to stan...

Wheels Report | May 22, 2020

Using electric, autonomous drones for package deliveries can result in "operational costs [that] are at least 70% lower than a van delivery service," Pedro Pacheco, a senior director analyst at Gartner. These cost savings come from avoiding traffi...

Supply Chain

ZUUM Transportation | June 17, 2021

ZUUM Transportation has been chosen as the Top Supply Chain Projects Award recipient for 2021 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Top Supply Chain Initiatives (formerly known as SDCE 100) highlights successful and creative transformation projects that provide bottom-line benefit to small, medium, and large businesses. These projects demonstrate how supply chain solutions and service providers assist their customers and clients in achieving excellence and successfully prepare t...

Hapag-Lloyd | February 06, 2020

Hapag-Lloyd is adding near real-time monitoring of its reefer containers to their product portfolio: “Hapag-Lloyd LIVE”. The monitoring tool will increase the transparency of the cold chain by offering customers a number of data sets about the condition and location of their reefer containers. The product will initially be launched to a selected group of customers and will gradually be made available as the reefer fleet of some 100,000 containers is being outfitted with the monitorin...