Year: 2020

KeepTruckin ‘smart matches’ customers with high-quality loads

By / 2020-11-17

DFM Commentary: Dynamic freight matching platform providers like KeepTruckin are increasingly expanding their offerings to capture more of their customers’ needs and provide easier integration. The growth of dynamic/digital freight matching from both the conversion of analog brokers and the digital broker’s market share acquisition are a testament to improved metrics. However, the proliferation of …

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Moving Toward Greener Freight and Logistics, Flexport Seeks to Offset Carbon

By / 2020-11-17

DFM Commentary: Shippers and freight companies are increasingly interested in reducing their carbon footprint and/or offsetting carbon emissions. This article highlights funding of carbon-removal technologies through an infrastructure technology company, Stripe Climate. Several shippers and dynamic freight matching companies have been featured in the press recently with their efforts. DFM Data Corp’s anonymized data sharing …

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Loadsmart Expands Options to Rail, LTL

By / 2020-11-13

DFM Commentary: Dynamic or digital freight brokers like Loadsmart are expanding their freight matching capability to optimize shipping options across multiple transport modes. Data hygiene will become even more important as different modes are evaluated and results measured. DFM Data Corp. looks forward to facilitating anonymized sharing of consummated freight transactions to provide accurate and …

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Why Governance is Important

By / 2020-11-12

Blockchain is one of those top strategic priorities we all keep reading about.  And the interest in it is growing; at 43% in 2018, blockchain is now a top priority for 55% of global businesses (according to Deloitte’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey).   But – and this is a big one – one of the greatest …

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Cargomatic started the digital brokerage boom?

By / 2022-05-12

DFM Commentary: This article claims that Cargomatic pioneered automating truckload dispatch using a mobile app in 2012. FWIW, Power2Ship was doing that 5 or 6 years earlier and their Patent was issued in 2010. Link to Source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-how-cargomatic-started-the-digital-brokerage-boom Quotes from Article: Years before Uber made its actual entrance into the trucking space with the purchase …

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Maximizing Last Mile Deliveries

By / 2020-10-22

DFM Commentary: One of the areas that DFM Data Corp’s technology hopes to eventually address is the hand-off between trucking firms and last-mile providers. The DFM solution has the intrinsic adaptability and scalability to handle this critical segment, but that won’t be the first target. There are thousands of print and web discussions of last …

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