Congested U.S. Highways Affect Freight Movement

  The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) just released its 2018 list of the 100 most congested truck bottlenecks in America, an annual analysis that began in 2002. This year was the third straight year at the top for the Atlanta’s “Spaghetti Junction”, the intersection of Interstates 285 and 85 North. Second place on the…

The ELD Mandate Goes Into Effect This Week

    The Electronic Logging Mandate (ELD) is officially going into effect this week. If you need a reminder of what exactly the mandate is, it will require commercial truck drivers to use an ELD to record hours of work instead of a paper logbook. According to Joc, this means companies may have to rethink…

Hurricane Harvey Washes Out Shipping Industry

Last week, the strongest storm to hit the continental United States in 12 years has caused serious problems within the transportation and shipping industry. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey caused massive amounts of flooding and damage in the Houston area. Thus far, Harvey has shattered the previous records for continuous rainfall by a tropical storm…

Truck Platooning: Follow the Leader Fuel Efficiency

  Similar to drafting, truck platooning is a method by which one truck can increase its fuel efficiency by driving closely behind another. The close proximity to each other allows the truck in front to block much of the latter vehicle’s wind residence. The resulting increase in the trailing truck’s aerodynamics causes its drag or…

Are We Driving Towards Autonomous Trucking?

While we’ve looked at automation within the transportation and logistics industry in previous blogs, we haven’t reviewed the topic of autonomous trucking. Right now, companies like Otto and Embark which have worked in the past on robots, supporting distribution centers and warehouses for companies like Amazon, are now working on such technology. They are currently…