Grace Sharkey

Grace Sharkey is a professional in the logistics and transportation industry with experience in journalism, digital content creation and decision-making roles in the third-party logistics space. Prior to joining FreightWaves, Grace led a startup brokerage to more than $80 million in revenue, holding roles of increasing responsibility, including director of sales, vice president of business development and chief strategy officer. She is currently a staff writer, podcast producer and SiriusXM radio host for FreightWaves, a leading provider of news, data and analytics for the logistics industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Michigan State University. You can contact her at gsharkey@freightwaves.com.
Jun - 2025 -
10 June
Grace Sharkey

CartCon 2025: Tariffs, turbulence and the future of resilient retail

Bringing the policy talk down to the warehouse floor, a panel at Cart.com’s annual customer event outlined how brands are actually coping with the new reality of shifting tariff policies.

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May - 2025 -
30 May
Grace Sharkey

Transfix CEO: In margin-crunched market, brokers must rethink tech strategy

Transfix’s latest tools are designed to preserve strategic intelligence by embedding historical context directly into the workflow, helping brokers make more informed decisions and maintain continuity even as teams evolve.

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28 May
Grace Sharkey

Russia wages silent cyberwar on Western supply chains

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a group of Russian hackers has gone into overdrive. As Western countries began ramping up military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the GRU focused on the logistics and tech companies that support those flows.

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21 May
Grace Sharkey

Waabi CEO sees success in simulation, wants AV industry to disclose safety data

Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun says autonomous truck developers should show their safety data rather than make opaque claims about their safety.

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20 May
Grace Sharkey

Duffy restores English language proficiency enforcement for truckers

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday signed an order to again require strict enforcement of English language proficiency rules for commercial truck drivers.

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19 May
Grace Sharkey

Freight fraud: Your supply chain is showing

From oversharing on socials to leaving systems unsecured, your data can smooth the path for freight fraudsters.

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Grace Sharkey

Freight fraud: Leveraging the carrier identity solution

Highway’s Michael Caney explores the importance of an identity layer in vetting practices, know-your-customer principles and technological solutions to verify carrier capabilities

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Grace Sharkey

Freight fraud: How criminals found a way in

Overhaul’s CEO breaks down why today’s cargo theft crisis is less about missing locks and more about missing identities – and what the supply chain must do to fight back.

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16 May
Grace Sharkey

DAT acquires Outgo, enters race to become dominant freight exchange platform

DAT is positioning itself not just as a load board, but as the freight industry’s central exchange through its acquisition of factoring and fintech provider Outgo.

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14 May
Grace Sharkey

Flock Freight’s shared truckload model hauls in $60M Series E

Flock Freight is positioning itself not as a competitor to procurement platforms, but as a specialized supplier that can solve a problem they cannot.

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12 May
Grace Sharkey

Is English proficiency enforcement the right focus for safer roads?

Critics of the reinstatement of English language proficiency out-of-service violations argue that the directive is more political than practical and risks diverting attention from more pressing safety issues on U.S. highways.

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08 May
Grace Sharkey

Cyberthreats surge against US logistics infrastructure

Fraud Watch also salutes a detective fighting cargo theft in Philly.

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01 May
Grace Sharkey

Fraud flowers in April showers

This week: We examine freight fraud stats and close the case on some stolen vehicles.

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Grace Sharkey

Aurora goes driverless with partners Uber Freight, Hirschbach

The company’s autonomous freight service, operating without a human driver onboard, is now making regular deliveries between Dallas and Houston.

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Apr - 2025 -
30 April
Grace Sharkey

20 company reactions — good and bad — to Trump’s tariff war

Here’s a sector-by-sector breakdown of how major players are reacting to the mounting pressure of tariffs and retaliatory trade measures.

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29 April
Grace Sharkey

Uber Freight CEO vows focus on growing opportunities for carriers

The freight arm of Uber Technologies shares growth plans for its carrier base at the company’s 2025 Carrier Summit in Atlanta.

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22 April
Grace Sharkey

Industry unites for Freight Fraud Symposium in Dallas

Who will win the top fraud-fighting award at the inaugural Freight Fraud Symposium in Dallas?

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16 April
Grace Sharkey

C.H. Robinson delivers on AI, but investors still skeptical

Despite processing over 3 million tasks with generative AI, C.H. Robinson’s stock continues to face pressure amid a sluggish freight market and investor caution.

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10 April
Grace Sharkey

Is trade fraud about to surge?

Fraud Watch examines potential increases in customs fraud whistleblowers.

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