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Many software providers now “rent” their software to users who do their work through the vendor’s Web site. This is called an application service provider (ASP) model, and it is often offered as a less expensive alternative to buying a software package to be installed on the user’s own server.

More cross-border carriers are getting ready to file electronic manifests before the U.S. Customs and Border Protection makes such filing mandatory as early as August.

Wi-Fi "hot spots" are breaking out all over — maybe even at a truck stop near you.

Customs authorities overseeing U.S. ports want to focus more intently on cargo that poses a potential security threat. But to do that they need relief from the demands of monitoring millions of incoming containers deemed no danger.

Will there one be an INTI? The Integrated Network exists today in some measure in some parts of the country.

In the task of data mining, questions or “queries” are analogous to the tools of the miner’s trade — a drill, a pickax, a shovel.

To meet multiple demands of users involved in more than one segment of trucking, software providers strive for greater flexibility in their offerings.

It’s been said that hiring a consultant can be like paying someone to look at your watch and tell you what time it is. But the people who form the management team at Double D Express do not subscribe to that notion.

Tim Van de Merwe, internal logistics manager for Associated Food Stores, has a happy tale to tell. Like most such tales, it begins darkly, with the cooperatively owned wholesale distributor in Salt Lake City struggling to keep track of the trailers in its yards.

If you want maintenance software, the first step is to recruit management to your cause. Then you can go shopping.