Shell chose the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo to talk up diesel-powered freight efficiency. An odd choice of venue — or was it?
Digitization can alleviate supply chain glitches, but it depends on systems that talk the same language.
Without clarifying objectives, a company cannot, with confidence or a unified vision, understand where it’s going.
Motional has unveiled its Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxi that is entering testing in the Los Angeles area.
OneRail makes last-mile delivery profitable for shippers.
“Green hydrogen will always be a considerably more expensive fuel than renewable electricity,” the Earthjustice report says.
Middle-mile autonomous vehicle startup Gatik has announced an $85M Series B funding round and the start of operations in Texas.
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The fusion of Aurora Driver with Uber ATG autonomous software brings the technology developer closer to commercialization.
“This is about lowering the barrier of entry for owner-operators. We are trying to push them forward and help them make key decisions that will ultimately lead them to success in scaling their business.”
Logistics technology solutions have never been in greater demand. But companies need to leverage new-age tools and modern-day attitudes to effectively tell their stories, says the founder of Virago Marketing.
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“Operating systems should learn from the behaviors of these shippers and LTL carrier partners, record these exceptions and apply learning from them for future automation.”
Does the search for a completely safe driverless truck mean that everything should wait for perfection? David Liu doesn’t think so.
“I think the difference in distinctions between the digital players and the — whatever you call the nondigital players, has become almost nonexistent,” said XPO CEO Brad Jacobs in its earnings call.
“We are very interested in areas where mobility collides with other themes. … Companies becoming more open to innovation will make these collisions much more frequent.”
Daimler Trucks North America’s participation in this round points to an increasing market for Truck-as-a-Service products, tools integrated during the manufacturing process to help fleets manage safety, privacy and intelligent automation tools.
Also on the podcast: Trimble’s Delaney looks at the TMS landscape today.
“We strongly believe that expecting random carriers to digitally engage with you and book your freight without having a relationship is a strategy that has just never proven to be effective.”
Fleet and logistics provider Ryder System Inc. follows TuSimple deal with a partnership with Waymo Via.
TuSimple Holdings trading approached three times its daily average on lockup expiration. Shares posted a small gain after tumbling for six weeks.
“The list of integrations demonstrates a pivot in our strategic goals as a company to work more broadly in our customers’ favor. We can now partner with best in class solutions in various product categories in order to build out more customer value.”
“Traditionally, the private fleets have been very separate from the for-hire or public fleets. … With technology and innovations like this, we can help these small fleets go after the other half of the market.”
“There was a lot of flexibility in their API that allowed us to do what we wanted to do with it, compared to others that had a lot of pre-built tools.”
DRIVE automatically spots areas for improvement so drivers can request coaching to boost their safe driving miles.
Positive feedback from mechanics, dispatchers and management helped Day & Ross choose PowerFleet for its U.S. fleet.
Several customers have gone live with BravoTran’s technology, including Yusen Logistics and Mitsubishi Logistics of America.
Learn a bit about the evolution of temperature-controlled containers in the air cargo environment and how Envirotainer has added new technology features to its refrigerated units.
“Over more than two years of working with Parcel Perform, their solution has become our global track-and-trace solution,” said Davide Costella, global delivery services manager at Nespresso.
“Iowa is now at the leading edge of the inclusion of blockchain in contract law here,” said CEO Spillman, as his team recently fought to have smart contracts recognized under law in Toggle’s operating state.
Autonomous truck software developer Embark Trucks is using Nvidia’s system on a chip for its plug-and-play autonomous system.
Not to be a Luddite, but a world of trucker-free trucks is going to mean some minor trade-offs, including fleeting bouts of creepiness.
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TuSimple is sitting on $1.5 billion in cash as it ramps up hiring and expands its autonomous freight network.
The earnings report is for a 3-month period with no impact from the big Transplace acquisition announced in July.
The Department of Energy’s Earthshots Initiative is allocating $52.5 million for clean hydrogen R&D.
Autonomous trucks without human drivers are still years away, but Plus shows what is possible on an open road in China.
DHL Express has joined UPS in placing orders for all-electric cargo aircraft.
ENERGY’s customers now have access to a personalized web portal, which provides real-time data on inventory levels.
14% of carriers polled said they don’t understand what a 3G sunset means for their fleets.
FarEye’s Intelligent Delivery Management Platform equips enterprises for a low-cost, sustainable future and creates happier customers through reduced cost and optimized operations.
Boston-based Motional is testing how its AVs can collect and transmit data on electric infrastructure to utility provider Eversource.
The partnership between BlueGrace and Trucker Tools showcases the right way to leverage popular book now features.
TuSimple will use Ryder System maintenance terminals as it expands its autonomous freight network from Arizona to Florida by year-end.
The recent chip shortage crisis isn’t helping matters.
“I’ve coined it the ‘superpower of check calls,’” said TextLocate founder Ryan Rogers.
White-label platform raises $2.5 million to bring real-time, guaranteed container rates to global shippers of all sizes.
Two groups announced this month their separate efforts to increase supply chain visibility. One technology tool focuses on locating railcars and another aims to forecast volumes at the Port of Los Angeles.
The next step is making deliveries to paying customers.
Experiencing the view from the passenger seat of a PlusDrive-equipped truck navigating a northern California rush hour.
FreightWaves examines the challenges of drayage logistics and the technology companies that are overcoming them.
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Fetch Package has created a last-mile logistics solution to optimize deliveries to multifamily housing communities, eliminating the need for updated package rooms or lockers and increased staff to handle incoming traffic.
Lyft riders in Miami will be able to choose a self-driving car later this year through an agreement with Ford and autonomous-tech company Argo AI.
“The Transfix team is extremely talented, but there’s a quality to the culture that’s got gumption,” said newly appointed CCO Sophie Dabbs.
The newly wrapped Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, driven for Rick Ware Racing and sponsored by BYRD Racing, will showcase the two FreighTech companies for the NASCAR Cup Series midsummer installment.
Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.
“We have to compete in a marketplace where my competitors don’t even have to be profitable.”
Hitachi ABB Power Systems Vice President Daniel Simounet talks about where opportunities might already exist to electrify freight rail — provided that the railroads, government and utilities are willing to collaborate together.
Temperature-controlled logistics real estate investment trust Lineage Logistics and venture capital firm 8VC have formed an alliance to invest in technology startups in the transportation and logistics industry.
“This collaboration brings us closer to another source of data and another way to look at last-mile problems.”
Improving utilization of existing resources in a capacity-crunched market is a “game changer,” Locomation CEO Çetin Meriçli says.
Embark Transportation advances plug-and-play software to take drivers out of trucks.
Supplier readiness is a key to Navistar and TuSimple achieving commercialization of a high-autonomy Class 8 truck in 2024.
Torc Robotics was the first AV startup to partner with a truck manufacturer since becoming part of Daimler Trucks in 2019. Torc CEO Michael Fleming says utilizing Daimler’s relationships with fleets is helpful in the race to launch the first market-ready self-driving truck.
Fetch and Körber’s solution provides safety, efficiency and flexibility.
Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette explains why the development of autonomous trucking is poised to leap from the experimentation phase to a viable commercial product during the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit.
A patchwork of autonomous driving regulations at the state level are ready to move to a more coordinated effort at federal agencies, according to Plus’ Wiley Deck.
AEye’s pencil dot-sized LiDAR sensor can see a half-mile ahead and instantly switch to wide view of traffic cut ins.
“Instead of reinventing the wheel, we partnered with someone who is a leading player in that domain,” says Locus CEO Nishith Rastogi.
Mastercard and Verizon want to turn your smartphone into a cash register.
Commercialization and pace of growth are common themes among young companies seeking to lead in advanced technologies.
Talkshoplive and its embeddable player network received a huge boost with $6 million in funding.
IRIS is GEODIS’ eye-in-the-sky ocean and air shipments visibility platform for booking and managing exports in real time.
Federal regulators push for more data as automated trucking rolls from testing to reality.
Available in late 2021, the company’s card will allow drivers to facilitate transactions anywhere Visa is accepted.
Findings from a recent Spireon white paper survey, conducted in conjunction with FreightWaves, found that about 40% of carriers reported losing more than $500 per trailer per week in detention costs.
To tackle this bull market, ITF is adding automation to distribution and fulfillment, adding visibility to customer inventory.
Nowports aims to digitize supply chains from Asia to the Americas with $16 million in Series A funding.
Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.
Regulators in China target two Full Truck Alliance apps in a cybersecurity investigation less than two weeks after the freight platform’s U.S. IPO.
“I think about the fact that if we fulfill this mission, the world is better off and not many opportunities have that.”
FMCSA is proposing to revise rules for advanced driver-assist cameras.
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Excerpt: Mustafa Azizi, co-founder and CEO of ZUUM Transportation, talks to Ryan Schreiber of CarrierDirect about how small and medium-size freight brokerages can leverage technology to compete with the big players.
What does a chief product officer at a trucking sector company do given that the title is usually seen at software firms?
“Working with Transfix has to be an experience that’s better for carriers and it has to allow them to both make more money but in a way that is more sustainable for them,” says Transfix CFO.
There will not be a single tech winner, meaning that the only chance for true end-to-end visibility is through partnerships.
Worldwide Express’ Joel Clum explains how third-party logistics companies are giving small and midsized shippers the technology they need.
Charles Craigmile, CEO at Revenova, talks about what it means to be a TMS in today’s market. His take? It’s more than just an operational system to find carriers.
The product, called E-inspection, allows a quick transfer of data from the truck to the inspecting officer for those trucks that need to go to the weigh station.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration orders trucking manufacturers and operators to report crashes linked to autonomous technology.
The industry is evolving so quickly that technology isn’t just a helpful tool anymore; it’s a requirement to be competitive.
The brilliant thing about implementing telematic solutions is that efforts towards energy efficiency also improve the bottom line.
I was there when Marla Maples became homecoming queen. Regrettably, I was also there when a truckload of watermelons attacked her in a four-Rolaids film by “the master of horror.”
FreightWaves discusses why and how the Water Institute of the Gulf is developing a digital platform monitoring shoaling on the Mississippi River.
Chattanooga VC firm is ready to find the next FreightTech unicorn.
Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.
Amazon is ordering 1,000 trucks and will pay $150 million for a 20% stake in autonomous truck software developer Plus.
Level setting the descriptions of autonomous vehicles gets simpler as industry coalesces around two main identifiers.
