Technology in Trucking

Due to increasing globalization, businesses are managing global supply chains. Information technology and the internet have introduced new market opportunities. Increases in productivity and increasing cost pressures from global competition have introduced just-in-time manufacturing and assembly. The trucking industry, which moves over three-quarters of the country’s freight, has had to adapt to and fulfill the demands to move freight on time, reliably, and with greater visibility. According to Lahsene, sophisticated product offerings, globalization, and increased customer expectations make logistics, the managed movement of goods, key to competitiveness of companies and regions. Advances in technology have enabled the trucking industry to respond to the imperatives of the new competitive environment.