In the task of data mining, questions or “queries” are analogous to the tools of the miner’s trade — a drill, a pickax, a shovel.

To meet multiple demands of users involved in more than one segment of trucking, software providers strive for greater flexibility in their offerings.

It’s been said that hiring a consultant can be like paying someone to look at your watch and tell you what time it is. But the people who form the management team at Double D Express do not subscribe to that notion.

Tim Van de Merwe, internal logistics manager for Associated Food Stores, has a happy tale to tell. Like most such tales, it begins darkly, with the cooperatively owned wholesale distributor in Salt Lake City struggling to keep track of the trailers in its yards.

If you want maintenance software, the first step is to recruit management to your cause. Then you can go shopping.

Interactive online learning can be a valuable complement to traditional training and professional development programs.

The basic concerns of supply chain management may not have changed all that much since terrorists attacked the United States approximately one year ago.

Are application service providers set for a comeback? Ask that question in certain quarters and the response might be, “Who said they ever went away?”

If terrorists tried to commandeer a truck hauling a potentially lethal load - fuel or chemicals, for example - what could be done to stop them? In the search for answers to that and related questions, carriers, shippers, regulators, researchers and systems vendors are exploring how information technology can help provide or enhance security in trucking.

Mobile communication technology will one day incorporate onboard intelligence and "the ability to exercise direct control over the vehicle," said Mark Sands, vice president and division counsel for Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions.