It's no mystery how freight gets moved from point A to B every day. It takes a shipper, a carrier, and often times several intermediaries in between. But what about a future where those intermediaries – or middlemen – might become irrelevant and disappear?
Enter blockchain technology.
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...Read the rest of this storyCommercial vehicle component supplier WABCO is bringing two new safety systems to market that can be ordered for new trucks and trailers as well as retrofitted to existing equipment.
The first is OnSide, a radar-based blind spot detection system for commercial trucks and trailers – a system WABCO said provides a 160-degree field of view and coverage for up to 65% of a standard 53-foot trailer.
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...Read the rest of this storyChevin Fleet Solutions, a global provider of fleet management software, just launched the first phase of its new user interface development for its flagship FleetWave product.
FleetWave is used to simplify fleet, driver and maintenance management – from the financial overview of vehicles and equipment to policy and supervision of drivers, technicians, and shops.
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...Read the rest of this storyQuikQ LLC is adding to its full-service fuel payment offerings, adding a fuel card and merchant agreements with truck stop chains Love's Travel Stops, TravelCenters of America, and Pilot Flying J.
Those new merchant agreements, combined similar deals previously hammered out with independent truck stops, give QuikQ a nationwide footprint for its fuel card program, the company said.
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...Read the rest of this storySources for truck and trailer sales are plentiful, but an accurate accounting of utilization by fleet size and location, by gross vehicle weight class, by age and by brand had never existed, until a just-released report erased this information gap.
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Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC) has promoted Andrew Briggs to the newly created position of vice president of marketing & product management.
Briggs, who will report to Jeff Barna, YTC's COO, replaces Fred Koplin, senior director of marketing and motorsports, who retired.
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...Read the rest of this storyFord Motor Co. issued a safety recall for certain 2015-17 F-150 and 2017 Ford Super Duty vehicles sold in North America, and some 1.3 million of the trucks are affected. The problem is that a frozen door latch or a "bent or kinked" actuation cable could result in a door that won't open or close.
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