Jett McCandless, founder and CEO of project44 and LSP44, received the first FreightTech Vanguard Award at FreightWaves’ F3 Awards Dinner in Chattanooga, recognizing his contributions to logistics technology and innovation.
The freight industry has spent years and real money chasing fraud, piling up more tracking, more data, and more awareness than it has ever had, and the losses keep climbing anyway, which is the paradox Michael Caney, Chief Customer Officer at the Carrier Identity® platform Highway, set out to unpack at the FreightWaves Broker Compliance […]
For the better part of eight months the price of diesel has climbed to levels that gasoline has not come close to matching, and for a carrier whose single largest variable cost is the fuel in the tank, that split is not a curiosity but a direct hit to the bottom line, which is why […]
The way courts decide who is responsible when a contracted truck ends up in a wreck is changing faster than most of the freight industry realizes, and the shift is not about one ruling or one eye-popping dollar figure, it is a whole direction of travel that keeps pulling responsibility up the chain toward brokers […]
FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival returns to Chattanooga next week, with sessions on AI adoption, autonomous trucking and the technologies reshaping freight operations taking center stage. The event, held Oct. 27-28 at The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo, will feature keynote presentations, fireside chats, technology demonstrations and discussions about how companies are applying new […]
As the freight industry heads into its highest-volume stretch of the year, the cargo theft numbers tell a deceptively reassuring story. Reported incidents fell sharply in the second quarter of 2026, down roughly a quarter from the year before. But losses over that same period more than doubled, to $304.6 million, with the average theft […]
At FreightWaves’ 2025 F3: Future of Freight Festival, Zach Jecklin, Chief Information Officer at Echo Global Logistics, sat down with FreightWaves to discuss the changing landscape of AI and its place in the modern transportation and logistics space.
AI and the return of incumbent companies drove this year’s list.
This year’s F3: Future of Freight Festival will bring back rapid-fire demos, high-tech exhibits, engaging discussions with thought-provoking speakers, market insights, fun networking experiences, live music and more, but this time totally reimagined to fully immerse you in a festival atmosphere with more venues, experiences and Chattanooga vibes. Join the greatest minds in the industry Oct. 21-22, 2025, for the largest festival in freight.
If you haven’t checked out SONAR lately, be sure you do! We’ve rolled out more features and product enhancements this year than in many of the past years combined—and the F3 Future of Freight Festival in Chattanooga this October is the best place to see them in action. Download the attached white paper here for a summary […]
Leading policy and technology experts will deliver keynotes.
