Article written by Aaron Huff Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on how carriers have accelerated their use of technology to be more nimble and responsive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2 will run next week. The coronavirus pandemic that began in March and continued unabated through the present has been one of …
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Digital freight-booking startup Convoy raised $185 million in a funding round led by an investment arm of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.76% adding big new backing for the company competing in an increasingly crowded field trying to reshape U.S. shipping operations. The funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, one of the biggest investments …
Truckstop.com’s Perry (left) and Hutto debut the load board operator’s spot-market rate forecasting service, which the company launched last fall. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) Load boards have changed a lot from their humble beginnings about 40 years ago. Long gone are written notes tacked up on truck stop bulletin boards to help drivers find freight, or …
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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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 attention and investment. While …
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Truckload Brokerage Operations In recent years, the proliferation of truckload brokerage operations has not been easy to overlook. Its ongoing ascent has been driven by several different factors, including the shipper’s need to manage capacity in a fluctuating market environment, the advent of truckload brokerage-specific technology advances, commonly referred to as the “Uberization” of the …
