LTL

C.H. Robinson Announces 2024 Carrier of the Year Award Winners

May 30, 2024 C.H. Robinson

Global logistics company C.H. Robinson announced the winners of its annual Carrier of the Year Awards. Selected from the company’s network of 450,000 contract carriers on its platform, this year’s celebration recognizes 24 exceptional carriers that stood out for their operational excellence including adoption of technology to enhance efficiencies, growth in the volume of freight hauled with C.H. Robinson, and resiliency amidst a challenging market. This year’s standouts include truckload, less-than-truckload (LTL) and intermodal carriers from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.  …

New C.H. Robinson Technology Breaks a Decades-Old Barrier to Automation in the Logistics Industry

May 7, 2024 C.H. Robinson

Using artificial intelligence, C.H. Robinson’s new technology classifies incoming email, reads it and replicates the steps a person would take to fulfill a customer’s request. For example, shippers often still choose to send an email asking for a price quote rather than log into a digital platform. On an average business day, the global logistics company receives over 11,000 emails from customers and carriers requesting pricing on truckload freight. …

Lineage Expands Integrated Solutions Services with New Canada Cross-Border Program

April 18, 2024 Lineage

The cross-border network offers added transportation value for Lineage customers, including access to multiple delivery points in the Canadian market and strategically positioned transport terminals in Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Red Deer and Montreal, as well as a new terminal in Moncton that is planned to be operational later this spring. …

FourKites Introduces Industry-First Dynamic ETAs for LTL Freight

June 2, 2020 FourKites

FourKites®, the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today introduced Dynamic ETA for LTL. For the first time, shippers, carriers and 3PLs can track less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments from pre-pickup to proof of delivery, with highly accurate, dynamic and automated estimated arrival times (ETAs). …

RLS Logistics Expanding Refrigerated LTL Service

December 19, 2018 RLS Logistics

RLS Logistics, a leading temperature-controlled third-party logistics provider, announced today that it will begin providing national refrigerated LTL service on January 7, 2019. With this move, RLS can now offer customers both frozen and refrigerated LTL and TL service anywhere in the 48 contiguous states on a regular weekly schedule. …