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.
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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.
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“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.
“As that system proves out over billions of miles of experience and proves the real safety of the technology, we think that will be a key building block towards fully autonomous trucks,” says Plus COO and co-founder Shawn Kerrigan.
Investments in cold chain visibility and control solutions help ensure the integrity of the cargo and efficient capacity use when capacity is scarce.
The Gartner research VP will also share his views on data, AI and sustainability.
Autonomous trucking software developer Kodiak Robotics raises $125 million in new capital after passing on going public via SPAC.
Finding capacity and orchestrating communication along supply chains.
Michele Sancricca of Amazon Web Services talks to Chris Hurst of StratusCloud about the increasingly critical role of data in the supply chain is changing how companies are turning to cloud-based services to manage the information.
What makes visibility systems useful for supply chains is when it flows that information into a company’s planning systems, says Kevin O’Meara, vice president of integrated supply chain at Shaw Industries Group.
FreightTech companies demonstrated products and services designed to improve efficiency in supply chains.
FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill sits down with Michael Newcity, ArcBest’s chief innovation officer, during the F3 Virtual Experience to discuss the importance of customer collaboration in building winning technology solutions.
Electronic bill of lading capabilities in less-than-truckload shipping are growing in favor, according to shipping management platform MyCarrier.
Fleets using Daimler Trucks North America’s Cascadia can now choose the apps or telematics solutions they want without hardware upgrades after the truck maker leveraged its partnership with Platform Science to introduce the Virtual Vehicle platform.
Serial SPAC creator Hennessy Capital and Plus cancel their merger, likely over Chinese technology regulations that could carry over to U.S. business.
As public trading nears this week, 26-year-old Embark Trucks co-founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak focus on lean autonomous trucking.
Autonomous trucks hauling freight for Walmart are running with no driver in the seat in Arkansas, says autonomous vehicle company Gatik.
“The customer demand will change so much faster than the industrial processes, and I think that to be early might be challenging, but to be too late will be devastating,” said Anna Borg, president and CEO of Vattenfall.
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Shipping container EV chargers can halve installation setup time and costs, Amply CEO Vic Shao said.
According to the company, Over-the-Road Rating is available for customers now as a web interface under its Visibility Operations center. Project44 plans to make an API-based platform available for the tool by the end of Q4.
Revenue is not the point in TuSimple’s partnership with UPS, which holds the autonomous trucking startup to its third-party shipper standards.
“The deluge of information can lead to processing delays, false detections and erroneous alarms. All this processing noise is what leads lidar systems to behave like distracted drivers,” said Spartan Radar’s founder and CEO on competing technology.
The grant from Emissions Reduction Alberta will help CP convert two more locomotives to hydrogen power and add more hydrogen production and fueling facilities.
Einride has been running its autonomous freight Pods in Europe since 2019, but founder and CEO Robert Falck has high hopes for the company’s entry to the U.S. “It is such a great challenge and I’m really excited. This U.S. freight transportation community is the most competitive in the world,” he said.
From merger to business combination in less than four months, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation expects to begin public trading on Thursday.
“Noregon has a lot of different opportunities available to us and we could take the company 100 different ways right now. What direction to take is something we feel like the Hearst management team can help us with,” said the founder and CEO of Noregon.
Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.
Amid global shipping congestion, GEODIS urges importers not to overlook their customs responsibilities.
Adam Kahn outlines the benefits of Netradyne’s positive twist on fleet safety management.
“The end goal for our customers is to reduce waste and deliver potent medicine and safe food. We help them do it with data.”
In the disruptive world of autonomous trucking, TuSimple says it has to haul freight to prove the technology works.
The freight and supply chain sector is often categorized as “hard to abate” when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. AskWaves digs into why that is.
By placing all assets on the same platform, fleet managers no longer have to manually track asset location, driver hours of service status, or engine condition.
Chinese investment scrutiny and SPAC renegotiation suggest going public may not happen for autonomous trucking software maker Plus.
We are excited to build out products that free documents and data from legacy workflows and manual processes.
Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks will soon join TuSimple Holdings as stocks betting on the future of driverless trucks.
Overlapping crises have pushed the race for global visibility into a critical stage.
The global supply chain visibility platform is seeking to take some pressure off carriers at the ports with more precise ETAs.
Brandon Buckley joins FreightWaves NOW to explain how fleets can prioritize safety without causing turnover.
“At Uber, we get to build on the shoulders of giants,” said Val Marchevsky, Uber Freight’s new head of logistics tech.
Ryder has made an investment in and offered vehicles on lease to autonomous technology company Gatik to speed middle-mile autonomous deliveries.
With the help of its 3PL customers, project44 was able to create its tool to help fight the capacity shortages and transit delays plaguing many logistics providers today.
Vendorflow has attracted investment from industry leaders with project44, Flock Freight, Best Bay Logistics and NEXT Trucking.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that distribution and logistics employment from 2019 to 2022 is expected to grow almost 30%.
With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.
Waymo autonomous truck engineering lead Boris Sofman makes the case that a decade of self-driving car efforts blazed the path to driverless trucks.
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Lidar startups are selling their wares to autonomous vehicles and other businesses, hedging their bets to survive in an overpopulated field.
With an automated system that intuitively manages returns, warehouses that face labor shortages can strategically utilize their employees.
More than 220 of the most innovative freight companies were nominated. Those were narrowed down to the top 100.
The platform, now known as WIN, by Centerboard, provides shippers affordable access to priority transportation management features for efficient outcomes.
The co-founder said many of his current investors called Uber and other marketplaces to discuss their flatbed capabilities but were told that “they did not intend to make that a core focus.”
Samsara’s newest features to its driver app will allow companies to create full-day workflows for fleet drivers.
EKA Solutions Inc, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based integrated freight management ecosystem for carriers, brokers and shippers, announced that it is now offering FreightWaves SONAR freight lane and market trends […]
The recruiting and retention platform takes on a new investor.
The sole, unidentified backer of the safety tech startup was inspired by a crash involving distracted driving.
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Five of 16 challenges to removing the driver from Embark’s high-autonomy truck remain, but a ride-along shows how much the startup has already mastered.
The Plus supervised autonomy system differs Level 4 testing by competitors, but it puts some automated driving functions within reach of fleets faster.
New-generation autonomous trucks are losing their Frankenstein’s monster image thanks to better-packaged technology designs.
“When we started this journey with Jordan three years ago, we defined proof of concept as becoming the largest payor in brokered freight,” said the CEO of TBK Bank.
The fast pace of logistics today has no patience for paperwork; it’s evident that today and tomorrow are digital.
Middle-mile autonomous vehicle company Gatik will use Goodyear intelligent tire technology on its vehicles to collect and transmit critical tire data in real time.
Last week’s Transfix, project44 and Emerge deals herald a maturing FreightTech space.
Despite significant investments in digital transformation, the industry has struggled to get its grip on recent disruptions.
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Forager has engaged an investment banker and is running a sale process.
Transportation procurement system will handle $4B worth of bids this year.
Don Thibodeaux from FuelHub discusses how automating fuel-buying processes can save money.
