Logistics executives say sea containers and the steel trailers needed to ferry goods on trucks are in short supply, as efforts to cope with steep inventory imbalances send new backups rippling across supply chains.

The 55-year-old Swede was named chief executive officer of the Traton trucking unit after a management shakeup last year. He’s to steer a turnaround of the business after Europe’s biggest carmaker struggled for years to improve cooperation between its different commercial-vehicle brands.

The life of the drayage trucker in “normal” times is a difficult one. And these times are anything but. Drew Herpich, chief commercial officer with Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group. He discusses the pressures that are weighing on drivers today, and the prospects for relief.

The trucking industry is still far from solving some of its deepest challenges since the pandemic, such as the shortage of intermodal chassis in circulation. 

Businesses are moving away from archaic long-term freight contracts, chasing cheaper and contemporary alternatives. The new, digital and uncontracted freight era has begun.

California is expected to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035 as the state takes dramatic steps to reduce emissions and combat the climate emergency.

Truck stop operator Pilot Flying J is taking an equity stake in automated vehicle startup Kodiak Robotics, the first step in what Pilot says will be a broader plan to outfit its highway stations to greet robot trucks. 

With average temperatures rising and heat waves become more frequent and intense, infrastructure and in particular roads are increasingly vulnerable to human-induced global warming.

Kyle Jepson, senior vice president of product at Emerge, discusses inefficiencies and empty miles in domestic transportation, and the technologies necessary to overcome those problems.

July saw another “outstanding” month for cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles and wait times were down, said port executive director Gene Seroka, while noting that exports had continued to decline for three years.