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Commercial freight transportation businesses rely on data, intelligence, and novel solutions for operational efficiency. Transport Topics technology coverage investigates available technologies, real-world applications of business solutions, and the strategies necessary for advancement. News topics focus on the latest applied science, and issues range from autonomous vehicle and robotics innovations to management software, tracking and transparency, data analytics, blockchain, and the internet of things.

Business, Technology, Safety

Could Truck Electronics Be the Next Cybersecurity Threat?

Welcome to a potentially new world of cybercrime: trucks targeted for theft or sabotage by hacking into engine control modules and planting malicious code.

Gary Frantz | Special to Transport Topics
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology, Equipment

Information Age Arrives for Small Carriers

The use of technology is no longer a novelty but a necessity in the trucking business — for carriers of all sizes.

Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor, Features and Multimedia
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology

The AI Wars Have Arrived

Hackers are now arming themselves with artificial intelligence to relentlessly probe the defenses of companies’ computers so they can strike those networks at just the right time and just the right place, according to IT security pros. “Hackers are innovative,” says Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst at Zenedge, an AI security provider. “They’re using automation, bots, artificial intelligence — and the only way to fight back is to pit robot against robot.”

Joe Dysart | Webology 101
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology, Logistics

Where’s That Shipment? Shippers Demand Precise Load Tracking to Improve Supply Chain Operations

Shippers are demanding more precise information about the location and status of their shipments, and transportation and logistics providers said they are using multiple load-tracking platforms to collect and share that information.

Mindy Long | Special to Transport Topics
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology, Logistics

Load Boards Evolve

Load boards have changed a lot from their humble beginnings about 40 years ago. Long gone are written notes tacked up on truck stop bulletin boards to help drivers find freight, or using telephones at truck stop restaurant tables and paying expensive long-distance rates to get loads lined up.

Evan Lockridge | Special to Transport Topics
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology, Safety, Top 100

Cyber Defenders: How Fleets Are Preventing Hackers From Disrupting IT Systems, Stealing Data

Cybersecurity threats are growing in both number and sophis­tication, forcing transportation companies to take additional steps to prevent these attacks from crippling their information technology systems, compromising proprietary data or potentially even disrupting trucks’ electronic controls.

Gary Frantz | Special to Transport Topics
April 20, 2018
Business, Technology, Logistics

Carriers, Shippers Working to Meet Demand for Freight Hauling

Carriers and shippers are adjusting to an environment where rising freight rates and a driver shortage are bumping up against an expected drop in capacity now that soft enforcement for truck drivers to record their on-duty status using ELDs has ended, compelling the industry to work hard to prevent disruption in the movement of goods.

Daniel P. Bearth | Staff Writer
April 19, 2018
Business, Technology

Leveraging Transportation Intelligence to Incentivize, Reward and Retain Drivers

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April 19, 2018
Business, Technology, Autonomous

Don Burnette Becomes Last Otto Co-Founder to Leave Uber Technologies

With the recent departure of Don Burnette, all four co-founders of driverless-trucking company Otto have left Uber Technologies Inc., about 18 months after Uber’s purchase of the startup.

April 19, 2018
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics, Top 50

Logistics, Accelerated

How are technology and innovation trends changing the logistics business? We explore the changes that helped shape the 2018 Top 50 Logistics Companies rankings.

April 18, 2018