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 […]
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,
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.
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
Amazon’s entry into online freight matching is being met with skepticism and unease by much of the logistics industry, according to a market research report from the FreightWaves Freight Intel Group. The report, Amazon and the Logistics Industry, builds on the news FreightWaves broke on Amazon’s beta version of its online freight matching platform, freight.amazon.com.
Fr8Hub recently announced that it will expand its services to provide domestic freight matching throughout Mexico, connecting shippers with available carriers throughout the country. The Fr8Hub carrier network currently features more than 1,000 carriers in the United States and Mexico, and more than 30,000 available trucks. Since electronic logging devices and global positioning systems are
As another service of FreightWaves SONAR, the Freightwaves Freight Intel Group was launched recently and is publishing in-depth research on “everything freight and logistics,” as Senior Research Analyst and team member Seth Holm described the Group’s mission. “We will be doing deep dives into topics that are most important to our industry, the inner workings
Lanehub has added a new capability to its collaborative transportation network that gives shippers the ability to earn a “benefit sharing credit” who help their contract carriers connect with other shippers who need capacity to fill imbalances in the carriers’ networks. Any carrier that is currently contracted to haul freight for an existing member of
Anheuser-Busch items in a warehouse. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Lanehub, a provider of freight lane matching services, said it will soon begin providing financial incentives to shippers that help their contract carriers find backhaul opportunities with other shippers in its collaborative freight network. This benefit-sharing
Transfix, the venture capital-backed digital freight marketplace based in New York City, announced that Ahmad El-Dardiry joined the company as its new chief revenue officer. El-Dardiry comes to Transfix from a 19-year stint at Intel Corporation, where most recently he managed cloud computing, memory and storage enterprise sales in the Americas, Asia and global industry