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Robotic Research, best known for its leader-follower autonomous military trucks, made it 20 years without raising outside money. Defense contracts and other pay-as-you-go customers put black ink on its balance sheet and cash in the bank. Now it has more. The private Clarksburg, Maryland, company...

Drone delivery technology has accomplished some incredible things in 2021, delivering everything from hot wings to 3D-printed organs. Drones are already capable of piloting themselves, flying hundreds of miles on a single charge and navigating landscapes from the cities to the suburbs and...

  On this episode of Put That Coffee Down, Kevin Hill and Richie Daigle discuss the importance of continuing education in sales. Salespeople should remember that skilled professionals continue to read and learn.  They share the five books they think everyone should read to get a top-notch...

The conventional request for proposal (RFP) process is notoriously tedious, expensive and antiquated. After a year characterized by strained capacity, sky-high rates and surging e-commerce sales, it is also dying. Traditionally, RFPs are administered via email and Excel spreadsheets. The...

As battery-electric vehicles gain popularity for different uses in transportation, some are wondering if they can perform in the cold and harsh environments that diesel vehicles handle well. Just as mileage for conventional vehicles depends on several factors, the range for EVs can vary with cold...

Host Mary O'Connell and BlueGrace Logistics' Bryce Williford sit down to talk about recruiting and retaining top talent, the best ways to grow and what 3PLs will look like in 2022 on this episode of Check Call.  Williford is BlueGrace's senior director of commercial sales. His career path...

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The Teamsters' ongoing push to unionize XPO facilities was supposed to feature a government-ordered revote in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning this week.  But in an odd twist and for reasons that aren't particularly clear, no revote is taking place. And the decision not to proceed appears to have...

A key supply chain report published Tuesday showed further growth and tightening during November. The Logistics Managers' Index (LMI), a survey measuring activity throughout the transportation, logistics, and warehousing sectors, expanded 80 basis points from October to 73.4%. The LMI is a...

Drone delivery in the United States has been a game of inches. Every so often the FAA will marginally loosen the restrictions holding back drone delivery, and drone companies will gain an inch of progress. Remote identification, operations over people, nighttime operations –– these are just a few...

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Old Dominion Freight Line saw a continuation of robust growth rates during November. The less-than-truckload carrier credited a strong economy and its efforts to win market share as the reasons. Daily revenue increased 29.9% year-over-year in November as tons per day increased 11.5% and revenue...

Much has been written about the backlog of container ships off the U.S. West Coast, but even when that situation eases, the supply chain bottleneck that it created will still be felt well into next year. It is the price a global economy pays for building ultra-efficient networks in which just-in-...

Railroads transport goods extremely efficiently, especially in terms of fuel and greenhouse gas emissions. But most locomotives still run on fossil fuels. Use of cleaner alternatives such as battery-electric or hydrogen requires new locomotives. However, diesel-powered locomotives can be...

Shipping stocks have never been for the faint of heart, and they've been on a particularly wild ride in the COVID era. There have been steep plunges and historic surges along the way, with unexpected twists and turns. What could be around the corner? U.S.-listed equities in the three main...