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Will blockchain extend or disrupt your business? – CCJ – Aaron Huff| @AaronHuffCCJ

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Blockchain is the latest buzzword in transportation and logistics, but how and when this “digital ledger” technology will make an impact remains to be seen.     Perhaps the most anticipated benefit of the technology for carriers is to create smart contracts with shippers to have self-executing freight transactions. With a smart contract, the different […]

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BlackBerry comes back with Radar for asset tracking, cargo monitoring, freight matching – CCJ – Aaron Huff| @AaronHuffCCJ

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BlackBerry devices were once the most popular connectivity tools for business professionals. Many became skilled, and perhaps addicted, to feverishly tapping out emails using the miniature keyboards of their “CrackBerry” devices. Then, in 2007, Apple came out with the iPhone and others quickly jumped on the bandwagon to develop smartphones with full touchscreens, high-definition cameras

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BigRoad now connecting drivers to loads through ELD – FreightWaves – Brian Straight

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With truck drivers across the country being required to have electronic logging devices in their vehicles as of Dec. 18, some have complained about the move to electronic recording of hours when paper logs work just fine. For BigRoad CEO Tony Lourakis, the rule presented an opportunity. “For us, it’s all about how do we

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Go99 breaks the revenue barrier, eyes U.S. expansion – FreightWaves – Vishnu Rajamanickam, Staff Writer

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Go99 hopes to expand its freight matching platform to include U.S. states on the West Coast. Go99, a digital freight-matching marketplace based out of Vancouver, Canada, has achieved a major milestone of reaching over $1 million in revenue and 1,500 users registered in third quarter, it announced. It is now planning to scale with its

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Trucker Tools’ freight matching Smart Capacity portal integrated with McLeod Software’s PowerBroker – CCJ – Aaron Huff| @AaronHuffCCJ

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Trucker Tools, a driver smartphone app, load tracking and freight matching solutions provider, announces the integration of its Smart Capacity platform with PowerBroker, an enterprise-wide freight brokerage management system from McLeod Software. Trucker Tools says that Smart Capacity, which it launched in September, 2017, is a cloud-based freight matching platform used by third-party logistics providers

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Key takeaways from Morgan Stanley’s Blockchain in Freight report – FreightWaves – John Paul Hampstead, Associate Editor

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On Black Friday, Morgan Stanley released a 50-page research paper called “Blockchain in Freight Transportation: Early Days Yet but Worth the Hype.” Morgan Stanley expects that blockchain-enabled smart contracts will be widely available for commercial use in 2018 (see: Blockchain in Transport Alliance), with more sophisticated applications coming out in 2020. Morgan Stanley believes the

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REPORT RELEASED ANALYZING BLOCKCHAIN IN SUPPLY CHAIN – Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator |@mhi_alex

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Earlier this year, I set about trying to figure out what the heck blockchain actually was and why everyone was talking about it. Because it’s not going away. And apparently Morgan Stanley agrees. In a recently released report titled “Blockchain in Freight Transportation: Early Days Yet but Worth the Hype”, the research foundation discusses the idea that blockchain

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Amazon Relay App Will Help Truck Drivers Get In and Out of Warehouses Faster – Supply Chain 247

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The-commerce giant has launched an app that will make deliveries from its Amazon fulfillment centers more efficient allowing truck drivers get in and out of warehouses faster, permitting them to check in with a QR code instead of badging in through security. Amazon Relay, quietly launched last month and first reported by CNBC, saves truck

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Digital Freight Matching the New "Little Black Book" – Supply Chain 247 – By Dan Clark

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Think about it. Truck brokerages used to have these “little black books” filled with the contact names and numbers of independent drivers who were scattered throughout the country. When the brokerage needed a driver to haul a load across the U.S., it flipped through its black book and found one who was ready, willing, and

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Digital Freight Matching Services & Technologies – Supply Chain 247 – By Jeff Berman

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In these days of ever-increasing technological innovation, the advances being made in logistics and supply chain are certainly gaining the attention of the Silicon Valley elite. And perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than in the proliferation of app-based – or on-demand – trucking providers, a quickly emerging area that’s receiving a significant amount of

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