New software could help trucking companies enforce truck driver detention policies and collect fines from shippers that keep drivers waiting beyond agreed limits.

Shippers aren't convinced 2014 will bring a truckload “capacity crunch" and don't expect rates to rise that much. Carriers have a different view, based on increasing freight demand and rising costs.

Echoing the sentiments of several transportation analysts, the logistics provider Transplace said Tuesday that shippers should prepare themselves for an environment of tighter truck capacity in 2014 given the improving economy and impact of government regulations.

More than 5 million commercial trucks crossed the U.S.-Mexican border in 2012, a 4.8 percent increase from 2011 that set a new record. Unfortunately, Troy Ryley says, too many tractor-trailers were headed in one direction — north.

Transportation management and logistics technology company Transplace today promoted Frank McGuigan to executive vice president of operations.