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GlobalTranz’s Krug and Farrell on 2019: “lots of acquisitions in the pipeline”

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GlobalTranz’s leadership in transition. ( Photo: GlobalTranz ) GlobalTranz, a top 10 3PL, announced this week that Chief Executive Officer Bob Farrell would transition to Executive Chairman and that Chief Financial Officer Renee Krug would become GlobalTranz’s new CEO. FreightWaves spoke to Farrell and Krug about GlobalTranz’s exponential growth over the past three years, its …

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Rapid-fire pitch: Cargo Chief’s C4

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Millbrae, California-based Cargo Chief showcased their C4 platform at MarketWaves 18. C4 is a system that enables carriers to share available capacity to shippers. C4 then uses this information to match shippers with their existing carriers without having to rely on untrusted contracts. Customers of C4 can enter the details of their load into the …

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Transport Topics – Two Digital Freight Brokers Focus on Price Transparency for Shippers

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Digital freight brokers Convoy and Uber Freight have separately launched new tools intended to make pricing options for hauling loads more transparent for shippers. Convoy Shipper Platform 2.0 includes Market Outlook, which shows shippers current and future trends by region. Also, it adds a feature called Lane Network, which gives shippers real-time data about changes …

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FreightWaves – John Paul Hampstead, Associate Editor – Lane Explorer & Shipper 2.0: race between Uber Freight, Convoy something to behold

By / 2020-09-13

Last week both Uber Freight and Convoy released new data-driven products meant to help shippers understand trends in freight markets. The competition between the two large digital brokerages appears to be heating up and is driving a new wave of technological innovation, creating more transparency and smoothing out information asymmetries.  On Thursday, Uber Freight released …

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Freight.Tech 25: automation and customization drive Uber Freight to #6

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At MarketWaves18, FreightWaves announced the Freight.Tech 25, the industry’s list of the most innovative and disruptive companies in transportation and logistics: Uber Freight took the sixth position. In business media, especially when it comes to technology startups, writers like to throw around the adjective ‘disruptive’, and in most circumstances the descriptor is inappropriate. Most companies—even …

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Getting ready for Demo Day, part 4: wrapping up what companies are going to show

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This is our final installment of a four-part series of previews that describe applications that will be shown Monday, November 12 at Demo Day, part of MarketWaves18. You can see the other installments of this series here and here and here.   Opus9 Opus9 is a digital 3PL startup for U.S. shippers that provides automated …

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New FourKites tool predicts capacity for shippers using ELD data – CCJ – Aaron Huff| @AaronHuffCCJ

By / 2020-09-13

Last year, about 20 of the nation’s largest shippers, who represent $20 billion in annual freight spend, came to Chicago for a customer advisory board meeting with FourKites. More than 200 of the largest Fortune 1000 shippers use FourKites for shipment tracking, analytics and other applications. The company’s freight visibility platform integrates with the ELD …

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FourKites Adds ‘Predictive’ Load Matching Service – Transport Topics – Daniel P. Bearth | Staff Writer

By / 2020-09-13

FourKites FourKites, a load tracking firm, is tapping a former UberFreight executive to head up a new service offering predictive capacity management to shippers and carriers. “This is the next big opportunity in supply chain and logistics,” said Matt Elenjickal, founder and CEO of FourKites, in announcing the hiring of Kristopher Glotzbach as vice president …

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Uber Launches Powerloop, a Trailer-Rental Business, to Build Drop-Freight Network – Transport Topics – Seth Clevenger | Managing Editor

By / 2020-09-13

Powerloop, a new trailer leasing and rental company started by Uber, hopes to reduce driver detention time through its trailer-pool system. (Uber Freight) Uber Technologies Inc. has started a trailer leasing and rental business to support drop-freight opportunities for carriers and shippers using its Uber Freight load-matching network. With its new Powerloop subsidiary, Uber aims …

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Powerloop, new venture from Uber, offers trailer pooling platform – CCJ – James Jaillet| @trucknewsJJ

By / 2020-09-13

Uber announced Wednesday a new venture, Powerloop, designed to work partly in tandem with the company’s freight-matching system Uber Freight. The company is an affiliate of Uber Freight and is owned by Uber Technologies. Powerloop at its core is a trailer leasing program, in which trailers are rented to participating carriers at $25 per day. …

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