By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor Earlier today, Seattle-based digital freight broker Convoy said it has made continued inroads on the investment front in securing $400 million in Series D funding. Company officials said that a key objective with this round of funding is to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in the trucking […]
With the challenges carriers face involving communication, consistency, managing productivity, finding and matching loads, and many more issues, there is a rise of logistic companies offering solutions for both shippers and carriers. Freight-tech startups as well as long-established companies picked up on trends and challenges in the industry and have developed cutting-edge, intelligent solutions. On
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It’s quite something when your name becomes synonymous with an entire movement in an industry. That is what has happened to Uber Freight, thanks in no small part to the disruption Uber created in the taxi industry. Today in the freight industry, the term “Uberization of freight” is used interchangeably with digital freight brokerage operations
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By Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director While we continue to use our pages to beat the drum that a digital approach offers the promise of a fully connected network with access to real-time visibility to capacity and warehouse space, this year’s findings suggest that there has been a slight shift to a more passive “wait-and-see”
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(Photo credit: FreightWaves/Jim Allen) On October 29, Bloomberg published an article by Dina Bass, “The ‘Uber for Trucking’ Tries to Navigate Some Uber-Scale Problems.” That was followed by Craig Fuller’s article, Is winter coming for the super-hot FreightTech space?, which ran in FreightWaves on November 3. It would be worth it to read both articles
Will the hot investing cycle in FreightTech cool? Much has been written and discussed regarding the venture capital (VC) cycle by commentators, columnists and bloggers, while Twitter has blown up with discussions about whether venture investing is about to collapse. People closer to the industry, including industry executives, journalists, and/or sell-side equity analysts attached to
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Convoy booth at an industry show by John Sommers II for Transport Topics [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Digital freight broker Convoy launched direct-from-shipper loads nationwide, a feature intended to provide carriers access to 10 times the amount of spot freight from America’s largest shippers. Convoy connects carriers to shippers
Glen Mills, PA – Pilot Freight Services (Pilot), a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, introduces Pilot Truck Brokerage, the newly rebranded brokerage service based in Pilot San Diego formerly known as A & O Logistics. Pilot Truck Brokerage utilizes Tech Suite, which enables customers or operators to shop full truck load pricing in
Convoy booth at an industry show by John Sommers II for Transport Topics [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Digital freight broker Convoy launched direct-from-shipper loads nationwide, a feature intended to provide carriers access to 10 times the amount of spot freight from America’s largest shippers. Convoy connects carriers to
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Much like the road freight industry in the U.S., its European counterpart suffers from similar issues with fragmentation and low visibility into logistics operations, brought about by the lack of digitalization across large swathes of the market. Through its customs regulations, the European Union has done away with the need for border customs by enabling
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