“Global Logistics Strategies: Delivering the Goods” tells an interesting story. Or more importantly, it forecasts an interesting future. The book explores the history of logistics and uses its dynamic past to predict our industry’s future. One which will see many more advances, according to the […]

Forget driver-free cars, the future of driverless vehicles is in trucking. Automated-vehicle experts predict that the first wave of operational autonomous vehicles will be of the long-haul variety. Why is the trucking and logistics industry extremely interested in driverless technology? There’s money to make. Or […]

Export Development Canada sees 2014 as a year of promise. According to their Vice President and Chief Economist, Peter G. Hall, “if the leading indicators are really rising together in a sustainable way, it’s pointing to a new upsurge of growth.” Hall outlines four main […]

According to the Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI), freight costs climbed 0.75% in November 2013 compared to October. While we want to say that this is just a one-off, one-month one-time increase, the fact is Total Freight Costs have been slowly increasing for the past […]

Mounted digital dashboard video cameras are gaining popularity with truck drivers across North America. China and Russia are already using them. According to The Ontario Trucking Association, it looks like this trend isn’t going away any time soon. A recent CBC evening newscast reported that […]

January 2014 was a record month. In fact, it was a month of records. The Canadian Freight Index rose to new heights, even higher than we saw in the record-breaking December 2013. January numbers surpassed December’s—increasing 43%! The company that compiles the index, TransCore Link […]