FreightWaves LIVE

This year’s list includes 16 returning winners from last year’s awards and nine first-timers.

With the challenges carriers face involving communication, consistency, managing productivity, finding and matching loads, and many more issues, there is a rise of logistic companies offering solutions for both shippers and carriers. Freight-tech startups as well as long-established companies picked up on trends and challenges in the industry and have developed cutting-edge, intelligent solutions.  On […]

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller and Dynamo Ventures partner Jon Bradford shared their insights and opinions on the digital freight brokerage industry and its investors.

Technology that helps you get the most from your drivers, trucks and trailers was in the spotlight at the Rapid-Fire Demonstrations on Tuesday at FreightWaves LIVE Chicago. The seven-minute, live demonstrations allowed companies to showcase their products’ capabilities. SkyBitz SkyBitz, which provides end-to-end asset management solutions for businesses seeking to improve margins by automating workflow […]

Technology to help with freight asset operations, sales and technology integration highlighted the third block of demonstrations at FreightWaves LIVE in Chicago on Nov. 12. WinMore is a provider of bid and tender collaboration software to help freight forwarders and brokers win more — get it? — contracted rate business, Mark Gamble, director of product […]

In the final event of the opening day of FreightWaves LIVE, it appeared the fix was in to declare FreightWaves’ home city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the best freight tech city in the country. But it didn’t happen.

Ryan Rogers, chief transformation officer at Covenant Transportation Group, said the online retail giant has challenged the movers of goods as to what is possible.

CEO Michelle Halkerston has initiated technology investments and initiatives that will raise the profile of her company’s large domestic air freight forwarding operation.

All the platitudes about the value of a diverse workforce comes down to one question: What are you doing about it?

“A good trade deal is when both countries are not happy with everything because that means that there was give and take,” LaRocco said.

At the end of the day, logistics is still simple: “Take care of the customer and the rest will take care of itself,” Findley said.

Third-party logistics providers must be ready to optimize data, streamline communications and never stop evolving to be successful in today’s marketplace, said Mike Powell, chief technology officer of Chicago-based SEKO Logistics. “Third-party logistics providers need to figure out who you want to be. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. If you make one, figure out […]

Author Ben Mezrich is no fan of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who Mezrich says should focus on the truth in Facebook political advertising. Mezrich wrote the best-selling story of Facebook’s founding called “Accidental Billionaires.”

“In the end, we must give the supply chain intelligence control back to the customer,” Paige Cox said.

SONAR 5.0 has new maps, alerts, rate predictions, and air and ocean data.

Rachel Premack, a rising transportation reporter at Business Insider, has become a champion among truck drivers for covering the issues from their perspective.

The future of freight brokerage is a renewed focus on people.

FreightWaves employs about 40 reporters across the globe, produces 10 podcasts and has launched the first streaming TV network dedicated to freight.

Don’t let snow and cold keep you from the hottest freight conference of the year. See you at FreightWaves LIVE Chicago!

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