2020

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller welcomed Emerge founder Andrew Leto to the FreightWaves headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the two discussed Leto’s rise as a freight-tech innovator and the success of his digital freight marketplace. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Emerge provides shippers and carriers access to direct capacity via its digital freight marketplace. According to the logistics software […]

I started teaching a course on operations management at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University on Monday, January 27. On Wednesday, January 29 we discussed Operations and Economic Productivity. That got me thinking very consciously about the topic of economic productivity in trucking. In fact, we touched on it very briefly in

On Friday, Coyote Logistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UPS (NYSE: UPS) laid off all the carrier representatives in its Chattanooga office, leaving a small group of salespeople and administrative workers. Coyote had let the office shrink by attrition over the past year, not hiring replacements for brokers who left, but yesterday about 25 people in

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” is a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and perception, according to Wikipedia. In a nutshell, this philosophical question forces us to think deeply about perceived existence. If we believe something is a