One year after launch, FreightWaves takes the top spot for news in the freight and logistics industry according to Amazon’s Alexa.
Shippers move more freight into the contract market to avoid higher spot market rates
Energy and financial markets economist joins the FreightWaves data-science team.
Driver recruiting, media, data application expert, Ken Smith, joins the FreightWaves team as CTO.
Leading commodities, markets-data news, and blockchain expert joins FreightWaves as Executive Editor and BiTA’s Head of Member Engagement.
TransRisk, our parent company, announced its rebrand as FreightWaves last night at our Chattanooga headquarters. Click through for video!
Senior UPS Economist, Ibrahiim Bayaan joins the FreightWaves team as Chief Economist.
Dan Piscatelli has been appointed as CFO of TransRisk, and former TransRisk CFO, Dan Conner, has been appointed as CFO of Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
George Abernathy, an industry veteran, joins TransRisk as the company accelerates growth
TransRisk, the developer of the first trucking futures contract, raises a venture capital round led by Bill Ford’s mobility venture investment fund. Seven other venture investors participated in the capital raise.
One of the largest financial exchanges in the world has partnered with DAT and Chattanooga-based TransRisk to launch a futures contract based on trucking spot rates. The venture brings together the benchmark pricing index with one of the largest financial exchanges in the world.
Founded with the purpose of addressing volatility for brokers, carriers and shippers in major shipping lanes through risk-management solutions, TransRisk is one step closer to doing just that. The company, along with DAT Solutions and Nodal Exchange jointly announced an agreement to develop, market and list the first and only trucking freight futures and options on futures contracts.
Sandeep Kar, one of the commercial vehicles industry’s most respected names has joined the TransRisk Board of Advisors. He brings decades of research and insights on the commercial vehicle market, along with a perspective on the impact of autonomous, electric, telematics, and blockchain technologies will have on the trucking industry.
TransRisk, a pioneer of solutions designed to allow transportation industry participants to efficiently manage price risk in the North American freight transportation market, has added nationally recognized transportation markets leader Donald Broughton to its team.
Former Thomson Reuters Senior Executive Eric Frank has joined TransRisk’s Board of Advisors.
Glenn S. Goldberg, president of GSG Advisory Services, has joined the TransRisk LLC Board of Advisors. TransRisk builds financial instruments that provide price discovery, transparency and demand balance for the trucking industry.
