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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.

Ocean Group plc and NFC plc are exploring “a merger of equals” that would create one of the world’s largest providers of integrated logistics services.

Asche Transportation Services fired Chairman Larry L. Asche and Vice President Diane L. Asche, his wife, for allegedly misappropriating $1 million in company funds over a number of years.

The future is here, and it seems to get reinvented almost every week.

I applaud Dan Bearth for his opinion in the Feb. 14 Transport Topics. His description of the industry’s driver crisis is right on target.

While the question of monetary compensation is a major factor in the shortage of qualified drivers, it is not the only one.

Issues surrounding membership integration into American Trucking Associations poses the major challenge facing The Maintenance Council, Bill Wolterstorff believes.

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.

Even with several recent advances in metallurgy and manufacturing processes, aftermarket modification of truck frame rails must follow strict guidelines to prevent damage and potential loss of warranty.

The federal government received mixed reviews for its efforts to improve intermodal freight transportation from participants in a Transportation Research Board conference on the future of containerized transportation.