Transportation software pioneer Yossi Sheffi has returned to finish a job he started before the Internet showed it could revolutionize logistics and freight planning.

The country woke up New Year’s Day with no significant problems from the dreaded “millennium bug.” Now people are debating whether the millions spent on fixing the bug was worth it.

To say that 1999 was dominated by concerns over the rollover into a new millennium would ignore dramatic progress made in trucking-related technologies.

A trend toward using the Internet to conduct supply chain transactions and establish trading marketplaces was spearheaded on a large scale by the automotive industry in 1999.

Schneider Logistics is expanding its role in business-to-business electronic marketplaces by distributing products ordered through Plasticsnet.com.

The country woke up New Year’s Day with no significant problems from the dreaded “millennium bug.” Now people are debating whether the millions spent on fixing the bug was worth it.

Carriers that do not adapt to electronic commerce could find themselves battling for a shrinking low-tech trucking market as the impact of new delivery demands ripples through the industry.

Even as the United States tightened security at its borders in hopes of thwarting terrorist incursions from abroad, trucks rolled routinely through most ports of entry on the eve of the millennium.

Carriers that do not adapt to the changes brought on by electronic commerce could find themselves battling for a shrinking low-tech trucking market as the impact of new delivery demands ripples through the industry.

Even as the United States tightened security at its borders in hopes of thwarting terrorist incursions from abroad, trucks rolled routinely through most ports of entry on the eve of the millennium.