The Information Technology and Logistics Council is preparing for what members say will be a great conference even as staff members pack boxes and prepare to close up shop.

I2Technologies, a big player in setting up Internet trading sites, announced the formation of a marketplace for transportation.

I2Technologies, a big player in setting up Internet trading sites, announced the formation of Freightmatrix, a marketplace for transportation.

Fewer than 150 truckers pulled into Washington, D.C., March 16, to protest a number of ills plaguing owner-operators. And when they arrived, they found two groups engaged in a cat fight to represent them.

Logistics.com served notice to carriers and shippers by hiring Schneider National’s former chief operating officer as its president, that it plans for its software products to dominate the digital transportation market.

Overnite Transportation and the Teamsters union scheduled five days of negotiating sessions in the next month, even after both sides reported no progress in two days of meetings last week.

Logistics.com served notice to carriers and shippers by hiring Schneider National’s former chief operating officer as its president, that it plans for its software products to dominate the digital transportation market.

Overnite Transportation and the Teamsters union scheduled five days of negotiating sessions in the next month, even after both sides reported no progress in two days of meetings last week.

Companies that do nothing more than match shippers with carriers on the Internet are springing up to meet electronic commerce demands, wring inefficiency out of freight transportation and make money.

At the crossroads of chemistry, physics and engineering exists a science that seems right out of Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” But this is not science fiction or alchemy. It is nanoscience.