2019

CCJ – England Logistics rolls out Trucker Tools’ platform CCJ Staff

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England Logistics has signed on to the Trucker Tools platform and cloud-based applications and tools for shipment visibility, carrier capacity management and predictive freight-matching. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, England Logistics is a non-asset provider of full truckload services, intermodal, dry and temperature-controlled LTL and parcel transportation. England Logistics also has a separate SCM […]

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Opus9 expands into port drayage – FreightWaves – Chris Dupin

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Digital truck broker initially operating in Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York/New Jersey and Savannah.    Opus9, a digital freight broker that connects shippers and motor carriers, says its computer platform now can be used to arrange drayage moves as well as full truckload and less-than-truckload haulage.   Opus9 launched its platform last September and added

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Opus9 looks to provide shippers real-time quotes on drayage – FreightWaves – Michael Angell, Bulk and Intermodal Editor

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Opus9 is now offering to match shippers with drayage carriers as it expands coverage to major U.S. ports. The Sunnyvale, California-based startup, which already offers load matching and digital brokerage for truckload and less-than-truckload freight, wants to bring the same level of automation to drayage, said Chief Executive Alex Ryu.  He said the new service

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Load-matching app Convoy adds automated reload feature – CCJ – CCJ Staff

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Freight-matching brokerage Convoy announced Thursday a new function in its app, Automated Reloads, that allows carriers to book multiple loads at a time, all without any human intervention. Convoy touts the program as one that can boost driver earnings, minimize unloaded miles and eliminate wait times between loads. Convoy’s algorithm “evaluates and continuously optimizes how

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Carggo brings high-growth tech to small freight brokerages – FreightWaves – John Paul Hampstead, Associate Editor

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The cloud is democratizing access to software and computing resources. With Carggo, freight brokerages can leverage sophisticated matching and pricing engines to grow their businesses at a very low cost. Freight brokerage in North America is undergoing a technological transformation enabled by large investments from private equity and venture capital. Investors see a fragmented, low-tech

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Convoy’s Automated Reloads provides efficiency upgrades for carriers to keep moving freight – By Jeff Berman, Logistics Management – Group News Editor

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Seattle-based digital freight broker Convoy, launched a new offering today that, it said, is geared towards booking multiple loads at a time. Entitled Automated Reloads, Convoy said this offering leverages algorithmically evaluates and continuously optimizes how loads can be grouped in real-time, all without human intervention. Carriers can bid their rates or instantly accept these

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Convoy Creates Method for Drivers to Book Multiple Loads at Once – Roger Gilroy | Transport Topics – Staff Reporter

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Convoy booth at MATS by John Sommers II for Transport Topics [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Digital freight broker Convoy announced Automated Reloads, an app-based program that allows drivers to book multiple loads of freight at one time. The move comes as the industry is paying greater attention to

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Witnesses: Digitization would aid infrastructure – FreightWaves – Jon Shumake

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A Senate subcommittee is told technology should be incorporated into surface transportation reauthorization.    New and emerging digital technologies that improve supply chain efficiency should be incorporated into the next surface transportation reauthorization bill, witnesses told the Senate Transportation and Safety Subcommittee on Wednesday.     “Just as federal, state and local governments could improve infrastructure,

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Tech Connections: Matching expectations and services – FreightWaves – Phillipe Salles

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Drewry’s Philippe Salles considers whether container shipping is ready for guaranteed services and prices.    International shipping is going through uncertain times — digital technology disruption, freight volatility, trade wars, new maritime regulations and increasing cybersecurity risks. Despite this, shippers, forwarders and carriers are striving for more certainty and transparency regarding guaranteed services and prices. 

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Dwell time the top factor in carriers’ ratings of Uber Freight shippers and receivers – CCJ – CCJ Staff

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Uber Freight, whose freight-matching platform is geared toward small carriers, released Thursday its first Facility Insights Report, a collection of high-level conclusions based on drivers’ ratings of shippers and receivers. Of little surprise, the factor that weighed most heavily in drivers’ ratings of facilities was turn-around time at shippers or receivers, both in positive and

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