31 Aug Female Truckers Start Cross-Country Trip to Honor Women’s Suffrage WASHINGTON — A team of female truck drivers started a westward journey Aug. 31 to honor the legacy of the first woman who voted. Read more...
31 Aug Crossword Puzzle Solution for August 31, 2020 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the August 31, 2020 print edition. Read more...
31 Aug Amazon’s Boler Davis in Mix to Become First Black Logistics Chief When Alicia Boler Davis was elevated to Jeff Bezos’ vaunted S-Team leadership council earlier this month, she became the first Black executive to enter Amazon .com Inc.’s upper ranks — and a candidate to run the company’s far-flung logistics empire. Read more...
31 Aug Vast Grid Damage Will Leave Some Laura Victims in Dark for Weeks Parts of Louisiana will be without power for weeks after Hurricane Laura caused “catastrophic” damage to the region’s grid, mangling steel transmission towers and snapping utility poles as if they were twigs. Read more...
31 Aug Idelic Updates Suite of Safety Tools, Unveils Performance Dashboard Idelic, a data and analytics firm that focuses on crash prevention, announced the release of its next generation of fleet insight tools along with a new performance dashboard. Read more...
31 Aug Amazon’s Drone Delivery Fleet Hits Milestone With FAA Clearance Retail behemoth Amazon .com Inc. took a big leap toward delivering goods from the sky by becoming one of only a handful of companies certified by the U.S. government to operate as a drone airline. Read more...
31 Aug Intelligent Trailer Technology Advances Imagine that a half-loaded trailer sitting in a yard for five days could tell you that its right front outside tire had low air pressure. For a trailer equipped with telematics technology capable of powering itself untethered to a tractor, such a scenario is not only possible, but doable. Read more...
29 Aug Private Carriers Have Adjusted Their Operations for the Long Haul Our 2020 Top 100 Private Carriers list shows that the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping private carriers in ways that will last long after the novel coronavirus subsides. Read more...
29 Aug Unveiling the 2020 Top 100 Private Carriers List Through financial and logistical challenges, the companies on this year’s Transport Topics Top 100 Private Carriers list have been finding ways to navigate this turbulent time while ensuring that shipments continue to reach their destinations. Read more...
29 Aug Private Fleets Respond to Higher E-Commerce Demand Private fleet operators have been riding a roller coaster since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March. Read more...