6+ hour, 17+ min ago  (512+ words) In May, the U.S. Supreme Court reached a unanimous decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II. This decision made life more difficult for freight brokers. Freight brokers are middlemen who book transportation carriers on behalf of shipper clients. One key technology is camera…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1050+ words) Forbes Volvo Trucks To Lead In Bringing Autonomous Trucks To US Market The autonomous trucking sector is accelerating towards commercial viability, propelled by a severe driver shortage and projected fivefold increase in freight demand by 2050. Industry leaders like Aurora are…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (682+ words) Forbes New Cargo Theft Surge: From Lobster Heists To Bourbon Warehouse Scams Cargo theft is rapidly evolving, moving beyond traditional hijackings to sophisticated cyber-enabled operations. A recent incident saw 10,800 bottles of $500,000 bourbon stolen from a Philadelphia warehouse by thieves posing…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (551+ words) In a remarkable turnaround, the U.S. deficit with Mexico has been larger than the deficit with China for three of the last five months and four of the last seven. In fact, the annual U.S. deficit with Mexico would be the United…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (430+ words) Scott Breitenother, Co-founder and CEO of Kilo Code. For most of software development’s history, execution was the constraint. Shipping was expensive, and coordination was hard, which made mistakes costly. Organizations built a structure that reflected those constraints: Product managers filtered…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (540+ words) Onahira Rivas is the founder and CEO of Florida's Cotton Clouds. I think that assumption is one of the biggest obstacles to rebuilding American manufacturing. While mega-plants make headlines, they are not the only path forward. In fact, the future…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (970+ words) Aliaksandr Kuushynau is Head of Wialon at Gurtam, a fleet digitalization software company that connects 4 million fleet vehicles worldwide. Remember what fleet management looked like in the early 2000s? The first commercial GPS tracking platforms offered something quite simplistic—a marker…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (863+ words) The improvement comes from the fact that when operating autonomously, semis typically don’t accelerate as quickly or brake as hard as when driven by humans. Long-range vision systems using laser lidar sensors also allow the system to gauge traffic conditions…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (320+ words) Mark Wallin, GM and SVP of Product at Phillips Connect, drives the future of freight through AI, automation and connected trailer tech. The conversation in transportation right now is dominated by a single question: When will autonomous trucking arrive at…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (577+ words) Alan Ohnsman is a Forbes senior editor who covers cleantech and advanced transportation. He joined Forbes in 2016, reporting from Los Angeles. He authors the Current Climate newsletter, writes about promising clean energy developments and has covered Tesla since 2006, when he…...