The overriding comment from truck owners at the recent Gearjammer Magazine Truck Show in New Hampshire was, "We can't even find lousy drivers, let alone excellent ones." This attitude, expressed by owners of some of the country's most excellent trucks, echoes DAT's discussion of the structural shift over the last...
Drone Disruptors: Cities are going to the air thanks to Matternet
A startup based in Silicon Valley is focusing on the difficulty of flying in congested areas. We've looked at two very different participants in the drone delivery industry so far in the Drone Disruptors series. Flytrex, founded in Israel, aspires to be the drone of the American suburbs, buzzing over...
Container ships are currently forming a swarm off the coasts of China’s ports
According to eeSea, a business that studies carrier timetables, over 60 container ships full of import cargo delayed offshore of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while there are more than double that — 154 as of Friday — waiting to load export cargo off Shanghai and Ningbo in China. In...