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Kodiak Robotics, one of a handful of startups aiming to automate commercial trucking, has successfully completed “disengage-free” deliveries on a 205-mile stretch of Texas highway.
Road Hunter, a popular navigation app for truckers, surveyed its users to find out more about their ELD providers. The app’s founder said there is a huge market for truckers potentially willing to switch ELD providers.
Emerge founder Andrew Leto and content marketing expert and best-selling author Joe Pulizzi will keynote FreightWaves’ upcoming virtual Sales & Marketing Summit.
The Geotab reseller segment will be the initial target for VideoProtects transport technology, which J. J. Keller has acquired.
A rideshare drivers union that has helped push up wages and benefits for gig economy workers in New York City has expanded to Chicago.
Ladingo’s growth suggests a segment of the market is not being adequately served by existing solutions.
XPO Logistics’ virtual reality program is designed to promote effective loading procedures at LTL docks, the company says.
Digital yard management solutions company PINC partners with Lazer Spot to improve efficiency and visibility in trailer yards.
TruckPark and FuelMe have launched a service that allows truck drivers to reserve a parking space and schedule a fuel delivery at the same time.
OneRail eliminates friction from the final mile by reducing fulfillment operation costs and increasing delivery speed. Its courier network of 4.5 million drivers reaches virtually every market from coast to coast.
Nucor Tubular Products and PowerFleet on Tuesday announced a partnership.
Benjamin Hartford joins Marie Colbert and Derek Nelson to fill out Mastery’s top executive ranks.
Retail analyst Andrew Cox makes five predictions for retail supply chains in 2021. First and foremost: An inventory correction.
1994: Despite its effectiveness in catching contraband, Customs pulls the plug on X-ray procedures at Tacoma.
Electric vehicle sector hottest area for SPACs
LoadStop digitizes fleet operations with automated dispatch and carrier TMS.
There is no shortage of opportunities for AI and machine learning to be applied to the solution of big problems in global supply chains.
Traffic app Waze squeaks into the FreighTech 25 at No. 25, rounding out the group for 2020.
The proliferation of ransomware attacks in the trucking and logistics industry is leaving many firms in the position of deciding which is the lesser of two evils: paying the attackers or paying the price of refusing.
Mainstream commercial use of small unmanned aircraft for a variety of applications, including package delivery, is around the corner. New FAA regulations create a pathway for drones to operate safely with fewer limitations.
Warehouse solutions provider 6 River Systems ranks No. 23 in the FreightTech 25. The company rapidly expanded its customer base and wall-to-wall fulfillment solutions this year.
FedEx will mark its 50th year by harnessing IT for pitched battles with Amazon and UPS.
Deciding whether a digital freight brokerage, No. 22 on the FreightTech 25, fits in a company hauling around people and food
New and existing companies are ramping up GPS and temperature-tracking technologies to deploy in vaccine transport and beyond.
Company said sale of its SHIP tokens was not an unregistered securities sale, but government agency disagreed
Warehouse robotics executives discuss industrial automation trends.
Even while most of your audience will never have met you in person, you are trying to give an accurate picture of who you are, through what you present.
Hackers relentlessly targeted trucking and logistics companies throughout 2020. These five cyberattacks are among the worst incidents.
The plan: signing up lots of carriers who then team with brokers to use the factoring capabilities built into the platform
igital freight startup Loadsmart ranks No. 18 on the 2021 FreightTech 25 list of most innovative and disruptive companies.
Autonomous trucking startup Ike takes No. 17 spot on FreightTech 25 after a year that saw new partnerships with fleets and acquisition by partner Nuro.
IoT leader Samsara makes it into the FreightTech 25. Ranked No. 16, Samsara has seen rapid innovation, product updates and customer growth.
XPO Logistics garners a spot on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 list.
While new trailer orders are booming to meet capacity demands, 20% of the nation’s fleet could be sitting idle on any given day. Why?
“Shipamax delivers data entry automation across entire logistics organizations,” says CEO and co-founder Jenna Brown.
For Emerge, the year began with new funding. As the year comes to a close to a close, it has debuted a “major step” in its product strategy.
KeepTruckin landed on FreightWaves’ 2021 FreightTech 25 list for the third time by developing new technology to help alleviate COVID-19 supply chain challenges.
Flexport is a technology company, more than a logistics operator. It uses technology to connect the dots for customers and freight transport providers so they can collaborate more easily.
The Idaho-based online load board celebrates its second consecutive year as a FreightTech finalist.
Canadian Pacific has announced a pilot project to develop North America’s first line-haul hydrogen-powered locomotive.
Autonomous delivery company Nuro has acquired Ike, a trucking technology startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber ATG.
Capstone Headwaters releases December update on logistics technology deals.
Less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines confirmed it fell victim to a cyberattack, which knocked out its operating systems and call center.
Forward Air Corp. says it was targeted by a ransomware attack and warns of a potential deferral or loss in revenue as it recovers.
“Sharing this information is highly beneficial for the supply chain, especially as we cope with both seasonal and unanticipated peaks and valleys in cargo volume,” says Executive Director Mario Cordero.
Project44 has completed $100 million Series D financing.
Paul Brady succeeds company founder Mitch Weseley.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services captures a top spot in FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for the third consecutive year.
While some companies struggled through the pandemic, supply chain visibility provider FourKites found renewed interest in its products, helping it land at No. 6 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 list.
B2B orders can be fulfilled on one site rather than switching to a logistics provider’s platform, Freightos says.
Using artificial intelligence to cull insights from freight transportation’s massive amounts of data can not only encourage safe environments, It also has the potential to improve productivity and efficiency, as well as provide supply chain visibility that benefits all stakeholders, says a tech executive.
Tesla’s year includes becoming the most valuable auto company in the world, announcing a new car factory and inclusion in the S&P 500.
Deals with Daimler Trucks, Samsung and McLeod help fleets manage myriad solutions to make life easier for drivers.
project44 ranks second after Amazon among industry disruptors on FreightTech 25 list.
A goal for 2021 is for SEDNA Systems to go beyond the automatic organization and routing of email by extracting the valuable business and operational information that is encoded and trapped within the email communications flowing in and out of the companies that are SEDNA’s customers.
Rapid platform developer Vantiq has partnered with Infosys to launch an accelerator to speed development of supply chain digitization solutions.
When most supply chain practitioners think of eBOL, they focus on the outputs. At MacGregor Partners, eBOL is viewed as a continuum.
Regulators waive safety rule to allow Netradyne dashcams to be mounted lower on the windshield.
The “IT security incident” at Tennessee-based transportation and logistics firm Forward Air has the hallmarks of a cyberattack, potentially involving ransomware, according to experts.
With all the uncertainty the COVID pandemic has brought to the freight markets, deploying the right technology provides the clarity shippers need to maximize supply chain efficiency.
AscendTMS has announced an integration with Convoy, allowing joint customers to seamlessly find and book Convoy loads within the AscendTMS transportation management system.
Azuga is adding artificial intelligence to its SafetyCam product, giving fleet safety managers more tools to proactively coach drivers.
FourKites and BluJay Solutions have renewed a partnership agreement that has resulted in more than 30 enterprise customers using an integrated solution.
Plug Power’s hydrogen solutions are expanding into Walmart e-commerce applications after proving effective in the company’s grocery and retail networks.
Removal of dislodged containers is expected to take more than a month, and none of the 1,816 units that fell into the Pacific have been recovered.
The communication from the company to its customers said freight now moving will make it to its destination.
Canadian last-mile delivery firm secures CA$20 million Series A and expands its U.S. footprint.
Virtual carrier CloudTrucks raises $20.5 million Series A and launches instant pay and cash card.
The COVID pandemic drove many Americans into their homes and off the roadways, but trucking fleets have remained on the roads, and their speeds have increased.
DASH wants to land the package, not the plane.
As trucking fleets reassess their safety programs for 2021 and the post-pandemic world, here are five steps they can take to reduce their risk exposure.
FreightWaves’ JT Engstrom and SourceDay’s Tom Kieley discussed “Managing Buyer and Supplier Relationships” during FreightWaves’ North American Supply Chain Summit on Tuesday.
Samsara announced the Workflow Builder and App Designer features for the Driver App are available for all Samsara customers starting Tuesday.
Walmart pilot to remove safety drivers from behind the wheel of trucks manufactured by Gatik, the autonomous box truck company.
USA Truck will deploy Trucker Tools’ Smart Capacity solution, while Penske adds tracking solution as Trucker Tools continues to add large transportation partners to its platform.
The latest ACTION TRAC® innovation supplies customers insight into the nebulous period of the
LTL shipment life cycle, the time the pickup is requested through the time the shipment is picked up.
Laggards “didn’t wake up and smell the pandemic until February-March,” according to Bolstorff.
Tive Inc., a supply chain visibility platform, announced on Tuesday that it secured a $12 million Series A funding round. Leading the round was RRE Ventures, followed by Two Sigma […]
FreightTech innovators showcased their platforms in 7 minutes or less.
Superior market intel can be a game changer.
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller talks supply chain tech with Kendra Phillips, CTO, VP of New Products, Ryder System, at the North American Supply Chain Summit
Speaking during the North American Supply Chain Summit, Dollar General’s Meghan Nicholas says organizations need to map out a digitization plan — and be prepared to pivot.
Plus will sell trucks powered by its automated driving system on Full Truck Alliance, the Google-backed Chinese digital freight-matching platform.
J.B. Hunt announces temperature-controlled transportation options have been added to digital freight-matching platform J.B. Hunt 360. Shipper 360 now has more than 10,000 carriers that can transport temperature-sensitive goods.
Preliminary results of a new survey have found that logistics companies are losing hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars, due to the use of low-quality technology integration tools.
Onfleet hires Scott Cross as CFO, and Stephanie Riffell joins Perishable Shipping Solutions as COO.
Trucker Tools has integrated cargo insurance coverage from Loadsure into its app, allowing for easy one-click access to instant quotes.
Cardinal Logistics Management, a large North Carolina trucking company, acknowledges “data event” after ransomware gang leaks thousands of files.
“It’s pretty attractive compared to factoring as an alternative,” said Wolfe. “There’s no chargebacks.
Supply chain tech investment is at a record peak, with over $52B invested in 2020 alone, up 2500% since the start of the decade.
Leading supply chain experts will share their insights on what happened to the supply chain in 2020 and look ahead to 2021 as part of FreightWaves’ North American Supply Chain Summit on Tuesday.
What do you do when you find yourself with $7 million? Maven Machines succeeded in raising that much money this year to invest in its cloud-based freight software, which includes […]
The market for reliable, complete data and forecasts about agricultural commodities markets is a large and growing opportunity.
Logistics real estate operator Prologis highlights ways automated warehouse solutions can help offset part of the growing need for logistics space.
“We’ve had to add on logistics support staff for appointments, to take pictures of the long lines.”
SmartHop, an early-stage startup offering a dispatch solution for small carriers, on Tuesday announced its partnership with Redwood Logistics, a third-party logistics company. The companies will integrate Redwood’s API with […]
GreyOrange’s Ranger autonomous robots work with employees in an e-fulfillment center in the Netherlands.
Uber (NYSE: UBER) is handing over its troubled self-driving vehicle unit to Amazon-backed Aurora as the tech giant continues to unload unprofitable business divisions and the industry moves away from […]
New Transflo President Michael Southworth believes the transportation industry is ripe for further technological innovation, especially around automation and collaborative platforms
