The trucking industry's technology sector has long been characterized by a galaxy of partnerships and integrations connecting various vendors' systems. Through these integrations, fleets have been able to assemble the technology components of their choice to build an enterprise system tailored to their operations.

Shipping giant UPS Inc. could receive an incentive package totaling more than $27 million for a new regional distribution hub near Fulton County Airport that will create mostly part-time jobs, according to an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

As recently as two years ago, the Virginia Port Authority was losing millions of dollars annually. Now that the port's administration has gotten back to a break-even point, the board of directors is charting an ambitious course that projects to create hundreds of thousands of jobs around the state in the next half-century.

While consumers can shop online and track packages from the minute they leave the distribution center to their front door, some of the country's biggest importers can't get the same precise information about their own imports.