Germany’s Wingcopter struck a deal with aerial medical services company Spright to deliver medical supplies to underserved areas of the U.S. via drone.
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is the leading low carbon solution that helps trucking companies and shippers reduce their carbon footprint and meet their sustainability goals.
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“Combining our visibility technology with a sophisticated fintech product will allow companies to make their payments around real-time updates,” says the founder and CEO of Shifl.
DroneUp CEO Tom Walker sat down with Modern Shipper to discuss his company’s expanding delivery business, including its partnership with Walmart.
“It’s the sunk cost fallacy. It’s human nature to want to stick with something you have invested so much in but, at the end of the day, no technology is going to last forever,” says Kinetic co-founder on continuously investing in FreightTech as your business grows.
With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.
ArcBest announced a $25 million investment in a software company that provides remote operation of forklifts and trucks.
In a move that will triple its European carrier base, FourKites is building the continent’s largest multimodal carrier network.
Electric cargo bike delivery provider Urb-E is expanding to Los Angeles as the first city in an expansion of its service in 2022.
Warehouse robotics firm Exotec has raised $335 million in funding as it looks to deploy more of its solutions in fulfillment operations.
Robotic Assistance Devices Mobile is looking to bring to market a 700-pound autonomous robot for logistics and last-mile delivery operations.
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Australian officials’ resolution of recent raven-on-drone attacks isn’t much to crow about.
Sandeep Kar, Noregon’s new chief strategy officer, pinpoints the issues facing his industry and his priorities in his new role.
In this edition, Fontinalis partner Chris Stallman describes his life-long passion for finance and his favorite 2022 FreightTech themes.
Google-backed Nuro has released its third-generation delivery vehicle, simply called Nuro, and will partner with Kroger to roll it out in Houston.
Because it costs more money than it’s worth to return the item to its vendor for reuse, returns often end up in landfills.
Walmart InHome customers in Florida will get first access to HomeValet’s Smart Box, a lockable, temperature-controlled porch box.
The Project Evolve initiative may take UPS’ visibility tools further than they’ve ever gone before.
TPG, Thoma Bravo and Goldman Sachs led a $240 million investment round for the Chicago-based real-time visibility provider.
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Supply chain visibility provider project44 sees record top-line growth during the fourth quarter, with bookings, account wins and retention coming in better than expected.
The RMX platform is designed to provide end-to-end visibility to trucking companies and insurance carriers.
Ever-tightening capacity may continue to snare domestic and cross-border shippers that haven’t planned accordingly. That’s where partnering with the leading 3PL for cross-border freight is needed.
Blume Global’s customers have access to the manufacturing solutions provided by LiveSource, including tools for value analysis and engineering, product part approval processes, advanced product quality planning and nonconforming reporting.
Recruiting and retention management has never been faster.
Much of the supply chain stress stems from a lack of labor, infrastructure and the widespread lack of technology.
“Nearly every industry has been impacted by supply chain disruption, magnifying the need to accelerate improvement opportunities in supply chain planning and execution,” said a NTT DATA Services executive of the deal.
From relay networks to industry unicorns, FreightWaves looks at technology trends that will continue to transform supply chains into the new year.
After years of work, TuSimple engineers and executives silently watched their autonomous semi take its maiden voyage without a driver.
TuSimple achieved its goal of sending a Class 8 truck with no one in the cab on a nighttime run along Interstate 10 in Arizona.
The stress of the pandemic made it crystal clear that supermarket supply chains will need to be streamlined and optimized to continue to meet strong consumer demand, especially during unpredictable and volatile times.
“We are a data company that happens to be applying our data points to solving problems in supply chain,” says Dray Alliance co-founder and CEO Steve Wen.
EDRAY’s global shippers reportedly have seen a 40% increase in drayage productivity, five times less rehandling and 25% less emissions.
“We don’t partner with one asset, we partner with all box truck assets in a region and we aggregate the totality of orders to be sure that there is one full truck delivering to one ZIP code,” said Onward Delivery CEO Grafton Elliott.
Plus and Iveco lay out a timeline for driver-supervised autonomous trucks followed by fully driverless trucks.
Locomation earned high marks on a third-party environmental impact report conducted by Boundless Impact Research and Analytics last month.
The logistics startup has wrapped up its series B funding round.
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While the Port of Long Beach is still dealing with a lineup of container ships waiting to berth, it is looking ahead to providing more cargo visibility.
CCO Sean Burke shares results from Echo’s recent survey on shipper sentiment for the RFP season.
“The trucking insurance industry hasn’t innovated anything for the last few decades, so we thought with our insights and the right person we could change that,” said CEO Mats Holmback.
German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.
Ryder and Blume Global demo their Rydershare and ConnectGo Live freight technologies during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.
The Internet of Things fleet management and software company sold 35 million shares and raised $805 million in its IPO Wednesday.
Aurora Innovation acquired Uber’s advanced technology group last year. Now it is piloting autonomous integration with Uber Freight.
Autonomy will ripple strongly through multiple modes, Lee Klaskow said during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
United Airlines is getting lots of attention with bold statements that it hopes to fly hydrogen jets in seven years and supersonic jets by the end of the decade.
Viaduct’s services — Smart Service and Smart Quality — can help the company begin to make recall predictions to avoid unexpected maintenance for fleets.
“Technology companies are starting to come to TruckerCloud as their ELD aggregator,” says TruckerCloud’s new CEO, Spencer Mitchell.
“I think the ability for us to pivot and be nimble to what the market is asking from us has become a huge piece to our success,” says Transflo’s CEO.
Some of the larger TMS providers cost four times what EKA charges and without as many features.
As part of Daimler Truck, Torc Robotics faces less pressure than some startups to get driverless trucks to market.
You’re only as strong as your weakest link. Don’t let back-office issues bring down the rest of your supply chain.
Cambridge Capital’s Ben Gordon details the roots of his “scrappy underdog” mentality, past investments and FreightTech’s recent defining and not-so-defining moments.
Less known outside military circles, Robotic Research may pick up what’s left of platooning pioneer Peloton Technologies.
“You’ve got to have your own technology to get your own data and control your destiny,” said Jim Best.
Rob Hatchett, president of Fleet Intel, discusses the importance of having real-time driver pay data at your fingertips.
“Partnering with someone like Emerge, someone whose primary focus is staying in tune with technology, we can move much faster, pivot when need be and continue to move forward and focus on operational execution for our customers,” said DHL Supply Chain North America’s president of transportation.
“Our technology is picking loads for drivers based on what is best for the driver and what will generate the most revenue on the truck, which in turn, generates the highest potential salary for our drivers” said AI Fleet co-founder and CEO Marc El Khoury.
Venture capital fund EQT Ventures is a backer of electric and autonomous vehicle maker Einride, but it is also a supporter of sustainable business models.
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Supply chain tech is increasingly driven by late-stage venture capital activity.
According to Gartner, multi-robot orchestration has only penetrated 1%-5% of its total target audience and will become necessary as companies begin deploying more than one robotics technology within their operations.
The commercialization of autonomous vehicles is an all-hands-on-deck affair, requiring competitors to collaborate with each other.
President of PGT Trucking said the load-matching trend doesn’t adequately respond to today’s supply chain constraints, driver shortage and polluted environment.
Before its two-truck autonomous convoys hit the road in 2022, startup Locomation points to a scientific study validating its approach.
Parsyl extracts and transforms data into actionable insights for a particular commodity’s transportation network.
The sight of an armada of ships off the California coast garners much attention, but shippers should instead focus inland to digitize their driver networks.
“I wanted to find a way to reduce emissions that was nonregulatory and allowed shippers to select carriers based on operational efficiency [and] price,” says Eric Beckwitt, Freightera founder and CEO.
Aurora Technology pledges to be first to take the driver out of an autonomous truck in late 2023, but its freight ambitions are modest at present.
“We cut out three to four hours a day of just nonsense back and forth between carriers, accounting, operations.”
“Leaders should realize that you’re not going to get a lot of benefit by trying to build volume with negative margins. The goal here is to be focused on value-adding technology and cloud adoption, not in volume building,” says Loadsmart co-founder and co-CEO Felipe Capella.
“There’s a lot of waste in the freight industry, and we believe much of it can be avoided with new approaches to capacity sourcing and shipment automation,” said the senior vice president of USA Truck, which has been helping develop Convoy’s program for the past year.
FreightWaves’ new series dives into the stories behind the industry’s biggest investments. Its first stop: the 33-year-old Chicago-native Jason Duboe who leads project44’s scaling initiatives.
After moving packages for UPS in converted Chrysler Pacificas, Waymo Via is applying its latest autonomous system to Class 8 trucks in Texas.
Ensuring load accuracy at the shipper facility is key to on-time delivery.
Ree Automotive has unveiled a blank-canvas autonomous vehicle design to last-mile delivery operations.
Five areas where hyperautomation can have an immediate impact
WeatherOptics has become the ninth contributor to the partnership, joining a list of visibility partners including Tive, project44, FourKites, TransVoyant, MarineTraffic, Everstream Analytics and Cloudleaf.
Robot trucks have to sense when trouble lurks, such as an impatient motorist passing on the left — or the right — when they are trying to turn.
Truck Talk brings perspective, context and commentary to the trucking industry ecosystem.
“While the front end of commerce has seen significant innovation over the past decade, much of the back end of the supply chain is built on disparate systems and manual processes,” says an Orderful investor.
“Our company vision is: ‘To create the ultimate freight shipping experience by operating at the optimal intersection of people and tech.’ This is our first step towards making that vision a reality for our customers,” says the founder and CEO of Ally Logistics.
SONAR Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) allows carriers to compare their lane rates with the market to see where they fall.
Even when everyone agrees, regulations take a year to get approved. And there are detractors to autonomous trucking rulemaking
EZ Loader’s Brad Clark and Reliance Partners’ Jessie Merritt discuss how acquiring cargo and supplemental insurance in seconds rather than in days is leveling the carrier playing field.
Intertwining zero emissions with autonomous trucking in California overlooks the benefits of driverless operation, TuSimple’s Jim Mullen says.
The shift to e-commerce in the COVID era has created a “new order” that requires new tools, according to project44’s supply chain SVP.
Convoy co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis sat down with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller for a fireside chat at Thursday’s F3 Virtual Experience.
At the F3 conference, Skybitz’ Sackman says recent developments in Bluetooth technology have significant aided the movement to make trailers a “smart” piece of equipment.
Schneider aims to “eradicate manual processes and paper because it is completely inefficient,” said Erin Van Zeeland, group senior vice president and general manager of logistics services at the company.
Embark Trucks rings the Nasdaq bell to begin public trading Thursday, but early share redemptions in its SPAC merger cut proceeds by $300 million.
Bringg executive Larry Klein explains how the company’s cloud technology empowers retailers to get products to consumers faster – and more simply.
Company demos presented during FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience show how automation can provide cost and time savings.
From yard management and ELD integrations to payments and email programs, companies displayed their FreightTech during F3.
The CEO of Turvo, a cloud-based collaborative platform, sees a major evolution underway in the supply chain industry.
FreightWaves’ Tyler Cole and Brad Benbow, business growth investments at Ardagh Group, chat during FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience on ways to cut supply chain waste.
