Category: Management

OOIDA Submits Comments on Side Underride Guard Rulemaking

OOIDA Submits Comments on Side Underride Guard Rulemaking

| July 24, 2023

Read excerpts of their commentary as well as a comment submission from a trucker voicing concerns about potential unintended consequences should this mandate come to fruition “Nobody cares about road safety more than truck drivers and every single truck driver wants to operate in a safe environment to return home just like drivers in passenger […]

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Freight Fraud Trends: Warning Signs and Insurance Insights

Freight Fraud Trends: Warning Signs and Insurance Insights

| July 21, 2023

Truckstop Fraud Prevention Friday looks at the most common methods of freight fraud, warning signs to watch for, and ways to safeguard your business Freight fraud is on everyone’s radar as it only continues to be more prevalent in the trucking industry. And while prevention measures increase, it’s still causing havoc for brokers, truckers, and shippers […]

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Aurora Announces Pricing of $220 Million Upsized Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

Aurora Announces Pricing of $220 Million Upsized Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

| July 20, 2023

Aurora expects to receive total gross proceeds of approximately $820 million from the public offering and concurrent private placement Aurora Innovation, Inc. (Nasdaq: AUR) announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 73,333,333 shares of its Class A common stock at $3.00 per share. All of the securities are to be sold by Aurora. […]

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Estes Express Lines Improves Freight Shipping and Increases Margins with Denodo’s Data Virtualization-enabled Data Fabric

Estes Express Lines Improves Freight Shipping and Increases Margins with Denodo’s Data Virtualization-enabled Data Fabric

| July 20, 2023

Freight transportation leader uses the Denodo Platform to automate data collection, make it available in real time, and reduce the burden on truckers and dockworkers Denodo, data management, announced that Estes Express Lines, the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, has successfully deployed the Denodo Platform to create a data fabric-enabled Logistics Digital […]

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Truckstop Acquires FreightFriend to Deliver Intelligent, Relationship-first Freight Matching

Truckstop Acquires FreightFriend to Deliver Intelligent, Relationship-first Freight Matching

| July 19, 2023

FreightFriend℠ cloud-based capacity and freight management solution that harnesses the power of AI to manage relationships, find capacity and match freight with greater efficiency Truckstop has acquired the FreightFriend℠ cloud-based capacity and freight management solution that harnesses the power of AI to manage relationships, find capacity and match freight with greater efficiency. Truckstop’s acquisition of […]

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ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 2.1% in June

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 2.1% in June

| July 19, 2023

Index 0.8% Below June 2022 American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 2.1% in June after increasing 1.2% in May. In June, the index equaled 116.5 (2015=100) compared with 114.1 in May. “While the tonnage index increased in both May and June, it remains in recession territory,” said ATA Chief […]

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