[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Effective shipment packaging relies as much on science and engineering as it does diligence and common sense. Matching the right box for ...

"DADDY, what does that ugly white sign with a '1051 and a tiny six' mean on that big truck?" inquired an 8-year-old as a tanker truck barreled down I-95 within a quarter mile of a Greenwich, Conn., ...

It looks like a torture chamber for cardboard and bubble wrap. At a lab in suburban Chicago, UPS Inc. tests new packaging designs by dropping, shaking and smashing boxes with brutal-looking equipment.