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Retailers, Private Fleets Expand Delivery Options to Keep Pace With E-Commerce Demand – Seth Clevenger | Transport Topics – Managing Editor, Features

By / 2020-09-13

Rapid e-commerce growth has ushered in new final mile methods and technologies, like Udelv’s autonomous delivery. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The inexorable growth of e-commerce and rising consumer expectations are quickly elevating the cost and complexity of final-­mile delivery. To remain competitive in this time …

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Nigerian digital freight marketplace Kobo360 raises $20 million – FreightWaves – Vishnu Rajamanickam, Staff Writer

By / 2020-09-13

Nigerian digital freight marketplace startup Kobo360 raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Goldman Sachs while pocketing another $10 million in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks. Kobo360 is one of the most recognized FreightTech players in Africa, revolutionizing a cacophonic market riddled with several inconsistencies.  Kobo360 began its journey …

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Demo day session 3: 10 companies building solutions – FreightWaves – Chad Prevost

By / 2020-09-13

(Photo: Shutterstock) Logistical Labs is a saas-based suite of tools. Concentrating on the intermodal load decks. They typically start with two or three years of a customers data, but they’re flexible with whatever they may need. But if you do, you’re working with big data. They can put an unlimited amount of market sources. They’ve …

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Carriers use load planning tech to capitalize on hot freight market – CCJ – Aaron Huff| @AaronHuffCCJ

By / 2020-09-13

Throughout 2018, the ratio of loads to trucks in the DAT network of load boards has set new records. For the week ending May 12, the ratio was highest in the flatbed market with 102 loads posted for every truck, on average. Reefer was 8.5 and van was 6.4 loads per truck. Carriers have a …

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The Shape of Logistics Things to Come – MH&L – Dave Blanchard

By / 2020-09-13

The Eagles once sang, “Things in this life change very slowly, if they ever change at all,” and certainly for most of the history of logistics, those words rang true. While we can all point to certain major events over the past century that did indeed change things as we knew them—containerization, deregulation, overnight deliveries—by …

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Freight matching, Uber-style: Mobile tech gives rise to streamlined freight transactions – Todd Dills| CCJ – @Channel19Todd

By / 2020-09-13

The “Uberization” of freight has been a topic of some discussion following the rise of the Uber taxi service. If you’re not familiar with it, Uber allows a customer to click within a smartphone app and, usually within a few minutes, an independent contractor arrives in his or her car. Prices are standardized and in …

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