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Sandip Patel is information security officer of Truckstop.com. Note: FreightWaves occasionally publishes commentary from industry sources with expertise, information and opinion on current transportation topics. The opinions expressed in the article are solely those of the author and not...

A wildfire that started last week along I-5 in southwestern Oregon is now nearly 12,000 acres in size. The Milepost 97 fire, named for its location along the interstate, was reported last Wednesday, July 24, around 10:00 p.m. a mile south of Canyonville. At that time it was only half an acre in...

A $287 billion proposal reauthorizing funding to maintain and repair the country's roads and bridges includes a first-ever title addressing carbon emissions and supporting electric vehicle infrastructure. The legislation, a five-year reauthorization of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (...

At the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition, the student team from Germany's TU Munich achieved a top speed of 463 kmph (288 mph) on its prototype pod over a 1.2-kilometer (0.75 mile) test track.  The competition was initiated in 2015 by SpaceX at its headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where...

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking public comments on Brookfield Asset Management's proposed acquisition of shortline operator Genesee & Wyoming (NYSE: GWR). Brookfield announced plans to acquire GWR earlier this month in a deal valued at $8.4 billion. Brookfield asked the...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. In "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning," David Rolnick and his co-authors address how machine learning and...

Over this decade, the freight industry has witnessed a steady queuing up of stakeholders within the market toward digitalizing their workflow, with the hope of improving visibility into operations and end-to-end transparency across supply chains. Though the term ‘digitalization' is now etched in...

Marten Transport (NASDAQ: MRTN)  posted its best-ever second quarter operating revenue and income in the company's 74-year history, the company said in its July 18 earnings release. The Mondovi, Wisconsin-based truckload carrier earned $15.2  million, or 28 cents per share in the second quarter of...

Dothan, Alabama-based AAA Cooper Transportation said it will start offering a free GPS shipment tracking system to its customers starting on July 28.  AAA Cooper is a family-owned less-than-truckload carrier with nearly 3,000  trucks. Its new system, Action Trac, provides the exact location and...

Titanium Transportation (TSX-V: TTR) named interim Chief Financial Officer Alex Fu to serve in the post permanently. Fu became interim CFO of the Canadian transportation and logistics company after the departure of Kasia Malz in March. Fu previously served as the director of finance.  "Alex is a...

The transportation and logistics industry is evolving at breakneck speed, and keeping up has never been more important. That is why the 28th Annual Study on Trends and Issues in Logistics and Transportation is more important than ever.  As one of the longest running research studies in the...

Stifel is bullish on the ride-hailing industry and raised its target price on Lyft Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT), while starting coverage of Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER). The Analyst Stifel’s Scott Devitt raised the target price on Lyft from $70 to $76 and is keeping a Buy rating on the stock....

Article written by: Mark Kunar, EVP, Strategy, Transportation and Automotive, Engineering & Manufacturing, Chemical & Energy, DHL Supply Chain, North America It was hard to escape the economic realities of the transportation capacity crunch in 2018. DAT Solutions, which tracks trucking...

Fire weather continues: Wildfires have been burning in several western states for several weeks. More fires could spark, and existing fires could spread rapidly. Because of windy and very dry conditions, the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued Red Flag Warnings for the Las Vegas metro area,...