FreightWaves is a price reporting agency (PRA) focused on the global freight market and the leading provider of high-frequency data for the global supply chain. FreightWaves’ price, demand, and capacity data allow customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast the global physical economy.
Without logistics, the supply chains that keep the global economy moving would cease to exist. Forty percent of the global economy is tied to logistics-dependent industries and there are millions of logistics firms that keep supply chains moving.
The professionals that manage these logistics networks are under constant pressure to monitor threats, manage costs, and keep supply chains liquid and predictable. Unfortunately, their operations face volatility created by changes in economic, regulatory, geo-political, and technological developments. Natural and man-made disasters can also wreak havoc on logistics operations.
Luckily, for the millions of supply chain professionals and organizations that are involved in this critical industry, FreightWaves provides near real-time information and forecasts on how these developments will impact the logistics market and participants. For logistics and supply chain professionals, FreightWaves is the fastest way to navigate the freight market.
The company is the world’s leading supply chain intelligence platform. More than one million professionals and 500+ global enterprises use FreightWaves intelligence to make informed decisions about their current and future supply chain operations.
FreightWaves provides supply chain organizations with fundamental data and context that help benchmark, analyze, monitor and forecast activity, pricing and risks in the global freight market. Information and tools that FreightWaves offers the global logistics industry increase efficiency and profitability by driving more accurate pricing, higher utilization of assets and lower emissions.
FreightWaves’ flagship SaaS product, SONAR, offers billions of data points on the global logistics industry, updated daily. The platform is used throughout the industry, by capacity providers and organizations that contract with capacity providers, to make more informed and efficient decisions about how to route, manage and forecast their supply chains.
The company also offers information and informed context through the logistics industry’s largest media platform. The advertising-supported media business has a team of over 20 full-time journalists and analysts that deliver information through an online website, streaming TV product, and set of podcasts. FreightWaves media properties have more than one million unique visitors per month, in excess of 30,000 viewers per day on its streaming TV offering, and nearly 100,000 podcast downloads per month. In addition to FreightWaves-branded media products, the company owns American Shipper, a media outlet which serves global maritime and ocean trade audiences, and Modern Shipper, a media brand which provides content for supply chain executives involved in the direct-to-consumer retail industry.
FreightWaves is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is a work-from-home first company. The company was founded in 2016 by Craig Fuller. Craig’s deep roots in logistics began in a family immersed in the industry. He gained hands-on experience at U.S. Xpress, the trucking company his father bootstrapped into one of the world’s largest. Fuller later founded Xpress Direct, the largest on-demand trucking provider in the U.S., pioneering modern freight brokerage Craig Fuller is the founder and CEO of FreightWaves—often called the “Bloomberg of Freight”—the global leader in supply chain intelligence, news, data, and analytics.
A recognized expert in freight markets, Fuller is a frequent commentator for major business media and advises Fortune 500 companies, carriers, government agencies, and industry stakeholders.
Fuller’s deep roots in logistics began in a family immersed in the industry. He gained hands-on experience at U.S. Xpress, the trucking company his father bootstrapped into one of the world’s largest. Fuller later founded Xpress Direct, the largest on-demand trucking provider in the U.S., pioneering modern freight brokerage. He then launched TransCard, a fleet payment processing company he sold to U.S. Bank.
Today, Fuller is developing The Motion Museum outside Chattanooga, Tennessee—the world’s largest indoor transportation museum and international hall of fame—featuring historic exhibits and future concepts across rail, trucking, aviation, marine, and more.
He is the author of Moving the World: How the Supply Chain’s Evolution Affects Us All, which explores the history and impact of modern transportation networks.
In addition to FreightWaves, Fuller serves as founder and CEO of Firecrown Media Inc., the premier multi-platform media company for affluent enthusiasts, with over 60 titles spanning aviation, marine, astronomy, hobbies, and more.
Fuller holds a BBA in International Business and Entrepreneurship from Baylor University and is a private pilot. He lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and five children.