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Transportation news doesn't have to be boring. The biggest issues have many angles and many voices. Talking about them can be both entertaining and useful. You learn the most about the biggest issues when you become part of the conversation. Each month, we take to the web to prove just that. We bring the journalists who cover the industry's biggest issues together with business experts and the newsmakers to talk about everything from driver issues to freight capacity, supply chain, infrastructure, regulatory matters, politics, and the changing demographics of the industry. Every episode tackles a different transportation topic in a fun, interactive way, gives you access to our expert, and lets you ask the questions that go beyond the written story. We call it LiveOnWeb. It's a series just for freight transportation folks, like you.
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Plugging Into an Electric Future
2018 was electric. Early in the year, Tesla and Nikola allowed us to glimpse the future; soon, the major OEMs followed.In such a charged atmosphere, the promise of this truck technology seems exciting. But does that promise amount to anything more... practical?
Get to the answer with the Transport Topics team this December when they jump behind the curtain and talk one-on-one with the companies making these trucks and hedging their businesses on an electric future. -
Managing Risk in Trucking
It's a time of uncertainty in the trucking world for those in charge of making sure drivers are safe on the road.
What techniques are fleets using to pursue lower insurance costs as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration revamps its Compliance, Safety, Accountability scoring system? -
Orchestrating the Supply Chain
What are shippers doing to orchestrate the supply chain? How are they tackling capacity, service, visibility and control? That's the focus of our Aug. 22 LiveOnWeb program, "Orchestrating the Supply Chain."
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Reimagining Trucking
Our July 18 LiveOnWeb program, Reimagining Trucking took a look at how for-hire carriers are embracing technology and innovation. We also discussed the 2018 Top 100 For-Hire Carriers rankings.
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How Have ELDs Changed Trucking?
It's been six months since the electronic logging device mandate went into effect, and three months since stepped-up-enforcement kicked in. So now's a good time to ask: How Have ELDs Changed Trucking?
Our June 27 LiveOnWeb program tackled that topic, with the perspectives of three people on the front lines of business and enforcement; Tom McLeod, president of McLeod Software, Edin Selimagic, safety manager for Midwest Freight Systems of Warren, Mich.and Kerri Wirachowsky, director of Roadside Inspection Program at the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
Host Seth Clevenger, TT's Managing Editor/Features, guides the conversation with the assistance of staff reporter Eric Miller, who covers regulation and other government-focused topics. -
Logistics Accelerated
It was just an idea until it found a $38 billion market in desparate need of finding new efficiency...
Then came the seed capital, the incubator mentorship, and the accelerator program. Now, that small idea is on the verge of changing the supply chain completely -- and everybody is interested.
The thing is, this story is not exceptional; these days, it's the rule. Good ideas now stream into the logistics marketplace, where investors wait, hungrily eyeing business potential. In fact, Transport Topics Senior Features Writer, Daniel P. Bearth reports that since 2013, investors have poured a whopping $14.4 billion into this space. Constant innovation is the only way forward for those hoping to meet the changing needs of shippers and carriers.
But that notion can be difficult to digest, especially in a space where margins are tight and risk needs constant managing. How will you exist in this change-or-be-changed space? How do you put it all together in a way that makes business sense today?