Through our cross-border freight and port activity tracker, we cut through the complexity, offering clear, real-world insights into unfolding trends. By monitoring granular changes in HDV operations at these key trade nexuses, we empower businesses to better anticipate challenges, seize opportunities and navigate geopolitical influences on North American freight movement.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is expanding the parking capacity from six to 18 spaces, recognizing the high demand and overflow parking issues. Analysis shows a significant portion of trucks park in overflow areas, and most long-duration stops occur at night when capacity is constrained. The author emphasizes that understanding stop duration and time-of-day behavior is crucial for planning infrastructure upgrades, not just stop counts. The post advocates for using stop-level insights to predict demand, improve safety, and optimize freight networks.
Altitude By Geotab Launches Border Tariff Tracker, Leveraging Data from 1.4M+ Vehicles to Decode US-Canada Trade Flow Impacts
Discover the key features of a freight planning tool and how it can support freight planning initiatives. Explore the value of Altitude by Geotab for supply chain optimization. Using a freight planning tool, you can simplify the process of developing and updating your state freight plan with the power of data. Freight planning solutions, such as a transportation analytics platform like Altitude, make strategizing easier by helping surface transportation inefficiencies and guiding your action plans to solve them. Learn more about how Altitude’s Origin & Destination module provides unprecedented granularity, showing in aggregate where most commercial vehicles are coming from and ending their routes, regardless of stops along the way.
The “Trucking Electrification Report” (March 2025) uses Altitude by Geotab’s data to assess the feasibility of electric trucks in the U.S. It finds 58% of medium-duty and 41% of heavy-duty trucks are electrifiable with a 250-mile range and depot charging. The report analyzes truck travel, stopping behaviors, and potential charging locations using Regional Domicile Analytics and Stop Analytics.
For petroleum and gas companies, choosing the right location for their next opportunity can make or break their investment. In this piece, we’ll highlight how Altitude’s aggregated commercial transportation insights can help you select the best location for your next truck stop, convenience store or commercial refueling station.
We used connected commercial vehicle data from Altitude by Geotab to understand the implications of new tariffs on freight movement between the U.S. and Canada.
