Descartes Blog

Every quarter, Descartes’ Employee Excellence and Innovation award is presented to a deserving Descartes employee. Based on peer nominations, the award recognizes Descartes employees for their contributions in helping to make Descartes’ customers, partners, and fellow employees successful. Eligible Descartes employees must have demonstrated ‘Excellence’ by performing their job with integrity and to the highest professional standards, exceeding expectations while achieving exceptional results for external and/or internal stakeholders and ‘Innovation’ by sharing valuable ideas to develop new or better processes, tools, methods, systems, products or services in support of Descartes’ mission.

I’m pleased to announce Descartes’ Excellence and Innovation award winner for the first quarter of fiscal year 2019 is Andreas Habenicht, Team Lead – Support, from our office in Leipzig, Germany. Andreas joined us as part of the Descartes pixi* acquisition and has worked tirelessly to implement and improve a tool that provides visibility into Descartes’ global customer support portal while increasing communication and collaboration for internal teams that support our customers.

Louisiana-based Dupré Logistics is a privately held, asset-based provider of transportation and logistics services that include energy and chemical transport, dedicated truck transportation, site logistics, and freight brokerage. Dupré specializes in tanker, hazmat, petrochemical transportation and complex supply chain solutions in industrial and consumer products.

Trade policy is on the move. Tariff discourse is evolving into action, non-tariff measures are spiking, and the number of trade agreements has risen to record levels. In this environment of change, it can be challenging to pinpoint trends and assess how trade policy shifts might impact business and products at the Harmonized System (HS) level.

Technology continues to gain traction throughout the commercial trucking industry, as companies realize the efficiency it brings to operations.  At the same time, regulatory agencies recognize that technology provides accurate data that can inform or change transportation safety regulations.

In fact, data gathered from electronic logging devices (ELD) mandated in the U.S. prompted a new focus on hours-of-service (HOS) regulations that may be adversely impacting certain sectors of the economy.  As a result, U.S. regulators are taking another look at HOS rules.