As FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks. Robot ...

A robot that can touch, feel, think, and build a densely stacked wall of a wide variety of boxes in a truck or trailer? FedEx is working with a robotics company to test just such a system. Dexterity ...

Volvo Trucks North America is now offering Load Finder. This is a new service that helps carriers streamline logistics operations and turn empty miles into revenue. Unlike other load boards that ...

Loader size. Truck size. Bucket size. Site layout. Underfoot conditions. They all affect how much fuel your load-and-haul operation burns. But one of the biggest contributors to fuel efficiency (or ...