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Brian Straight

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Covers:  Transportation, trucking, freight, trucking technology
Brian Straight covers logistics, procurement, tech and management issues in the supply chain as Editor in Chief of Supply Chain Management Review. Follow @SCMR

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Brian Straight covers general transportation news and leads the FreightWaves.com editorial team as Managing Editor. He is founder of FreightWaves.com. A journalism graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Brian has covered everything from a presidential election, to professional sports and Little League baseball, and for more than 13 years has covered trucking and logistics. Before joining FreightWaves, he was responsible for the editorial quality and production of Fleet Owner magazine and f…

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Move For Hunger on the hunt for trucking partners - Truckload Indexes

Move For Hunger on the hunt for trucking partners - Truckload Indexes

Since its humble beginnings, Move for Hunger now has over 1,000 partners, from moving companies to realtors t…

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'Missing a few pallets' and other fun tales from a life in trucking - FreightWaves

'Missing a few pallets' and other fun tales from a life in trucking - FreightWaves

Ralph was very clear to his manager: He would not drive his truck after Memorial Day because of "the terroris…

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FourKites extends into yard visibility with acquisition - FreightWaves

FourKites extends into yard visibility with acquisition - FreightWaves

FourKites is creating Dynamic Yard, a supply chain visibility product that incorporates predictive estimated …

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What autonomous truck startups can learn from Starsky's failure - FreightWaves

What autonomous truck startups can learn from Starsky's failure - FreightWaves

Likely lost in the coronavirus news onslaught last week was the demise of Starsky Robotics. A startup failing…

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Layoffs start rippling across freight industries - FreightWaves

Layoffs start rippling across freight industries - FreightWaves

As the impact of COVID-19 quickly spreads through the economy, layoffs are becoming a common theme for worker…

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Apple closing stores, will others follow? - FreightWaves

Apple closing stores, will others follow? - FreightWaves

Apple ( NASDAQ: AAPL) announced today that it is closing all its retail stores outside China in response to t…

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Surging AI adoption doesn’t match mass layoff narrative

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Despite growing headlines linking artificial intelligence investments to workforce reductions, new Gartner research suggests AI itself is not yet a major driver of layoffs—and supply chain leaders risk making strategic workforce mistakes if they overreact to the narrative.
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Tillamook turns supply chain planning into growth engine

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For Tillamook, the challenge was not simply deploying new technology. It was redesigning how a historically regional dairy cooperative could scale into a national consumer brand while maintaining product quality, controlling spoilage, and managing increasingly complex inventory and fulfillment networks.
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The real reason supply chain tech ROI falls short

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Despite billions invested annually in transportation management systems, warehouse management software, AI platforms, and automation technologies, many supply chain technology implementations still fail to meet expectations. Often, that is not because the technology itself falls short, but because organizations rush into implementation before defining the business strategy the technology is supposed to support.
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