The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) and Walmart announced that Susie De Ridder, a driver for Armour Transportation Systems in New Brunswick, Canada, has been named winner of the first annual Female Driver of the Year Award.
In a recent move to increase its truck fleet, Walmart is looking to add more than 500 truck drivers this year, focusing on the East and West Coasts.
Walmart Canada and DLT Labs launched a blockchain-based freight and payment network that tracks deliveries, verifies transactions and automates payments and reconciliation among Walmart Canada and its carrier partners.
The ability to give customers real-time visibility into the status of their freight has become table stakes for landing business with larger shippers.
Walmart announced its partnership with Gatik after Arkansas passed legislation allowing for the operation of autonomous vehicles.The retailer hopes to improve customer experience and test autonomous vehicles.
Big retailers such as Walmart and Target have put in place stricter standards for on-time delivery, shortened the windows for deliveries, and hiked fines for missing those windows. ArcBest has a new program designed to help.
Walmart’s private fleet is adding truck driving jobs to its Washington Court House, Ohio, transportation office as it brings the operations of that facility in-house.
Beginning in February, Walmart truck drivers will receive a 1-cent per mile and a 50-cent increase in activity pay for arrive and arrive/drop occurrences.
Udelv, manufacturers of the Newton van, also announced a series of strategic partnerships with retailers worldwide at the show.
Walmart has begun testing self-driving Ford vehicles as part of a third-party delivery experiment with Postmates to deliver tacos, floral arrangements, dry cleaning and other items, Ford has announced.