On this special episode of At Your Doorstep for FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Kaylee Nix looks at how annoying paperwork can become less time consuming with machine learning.
Dooner and The Dude are back for Day 2 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME with interviews from all across the logistics industry.
Gatik’s Sam Saad talks about his autonomous vehicle company’s expanding Walmart partnership, Isuzu manufacturing deal and other trends in the transportation industry.
Upgrading fleets and equipment from 3G mobile technology to LTE requires upfront planning with a strong partner.
The Shipper of Choice Award recognizes companies that attract carriers because they make it easy to do business.
Kevin Hill, FreightWaves’ executive publisher, chats with Michael Newcity, chief innovation officer and president of ArcBest Technologies, during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME.
“Ultimately the pandemic has made everyone realize that there are opportunities here to make all of our lives better going forward.”
Kevin Hill and Richie Daigle look at how tech can help you land sales on this episode of Put That Coffee Down.
Waymo solved the maze of autonomously navigating surface streets. That is helping WaymoVia teach commercial trucks how to do likewise.
Adam Miller, CFO of Knight-Swift Transportation and president of Swift Transportation, joins George Abernathy, president of FreightWaves, during Day 2 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME to talk capacity, drivers, rates and more.
FreightWaves’ Zach Strickland and Loadsmart Vice President of Operations Jim Nicholson chat about mode optimization, truckload consolidation and technology’s role in sustainable shipping.
How bad is it? A Vietnam-New York slot was just offered at $19,000 per FEU, reveals Flexport’s Nerijus Poskus.
“The first step to optimizing your capacity is to start with your network. … Step two is optimizing across multiple networks.”
Werner Enterprises CEO Derek Leathers says electrification and other technologies are coming quickly to trucking, and he wants his company out front.
Kaylee Nix hosts a special episode of At Your Doorstep for the FreightWaves LIVE @HOME event with Nate Coyle from Front.
Schneider Logistics SVP and General Manager Erin Van Zeeland chats with TriumphPay VP of Sales and Marketing Haley Evans about the top challenges facing logistics companies and what they can do to overcome them.
Dooner and The Dude host another special episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves LIVE @HOME and examine the effectiveness of tech in the freight world.
Bringg’s Klein said COVID showed it’s tough for a logistics provider to scale up quickly when you need to.
Four FreightTech companies demonstrated their innovative technology solutions during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME on Wednesday.
Dan Kopp, CEO of freight brokerage ITG Transportation Services, joins Trey Griggs, VP of sales at Lean Solutions Group, to discuss the ocean shipping environment at FreightWaves LIVE @HOME.
On this special episode of Put That Coffee Down during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Kevin Hill and Richie Daigle talk about the latest advances in FreightTech.
Reliance Partners discusses how new technology allows transportation companies to reduce insurance costs.
“The customers who use Baton will one day never have to send long-haul drivers to warehouses again.”
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller interviews Kendra Tucker on her move into the trucking industry last year when she joined Truckstop.com.
FreightWaves President George Abernathy and Ryder Chief Technology Officer Kendra Phillips explore how autonomous technology and other FreightTech will fit in with current networks.
“Seventy percent of supply chain actors needed to execute on your supply chain are not within the four walls of your company.”
Redwood Logistics CEO Mark Yeager talks about emerging technology and the potential of Logistics Platform as a Service (LPaaS).
J.B. Hunt’s 360 digital freight-matching platform will play a core role in helping the company and its customers thrive in a historically challenging environment, Simpson says.
“It’s about speed, convenience and also being greener,” says Chris Jarvis, chief logistics officer at GoFor.
Dooner and The Dude look at the drone racing world during this episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for FreightWaves’ DroneWaves Summit.
Drone delivery planning in urban environments requires many considerations, including emergency landing zones, no-fly zones, route planning, takeoff and landing sites and governmental regulations.
“You can’t just go buy a drone like ours and take off and start flying,” said Wingcopter exec on airspace regulation during the DroneWaves Summit.
Keynoting the DroneWaves Summit, Parimal Kopardekar said that safe and efficient drone integration depends on telling users where not to go.
Imagine a world where companies have full visibility of their complete supply chains’ carbon emissions. FreightWaves Carbon Intelligence offers that insight to SONAR users.
On this episode of Put That Coffee Down, Kevin Hill looks at the different ways technology can help companies decrease their carbon footprints.
Anheuser-Busch brings competitors together to seek solutions.
Dan Scarbrough, president and COO at IncubEx, joined Danny Gomez, managing director of financial and emerging markets at FreightWaves, to discuss climate futures exchange markets at FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit.
y using a certain type of natural gas, and measuring its life cycle, a manufacturer of engines says its technology has a carbon impact of less than zero.
Wabtec is working with railroad customers to transition from diesel power to cut emissions.
Carbon markets expert and OPIS Director of Global Carbon Pricing Lisa Street chats with FreightWaves Editor-at-large John Kingston about how transportation companies can be involved in the carbon markets.
Railroads produce fewer emissions per unit hauled than other modes of land transport and are striving to reduce their environmental footprint even more.
Craig Fuller, founder and CEO of FreightWaves, discusses the future of transportation as it transitions to a carbon neutral world with Danny Gomez, managing director of financial and emerging markets for FreightWaves.
“Enormous amounts of energy require enormous amounts of space and one thing vessels don’t have is space,” said Milton Bevington during FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit.
J.B. Hunt exec says at Net-Zero Carbon Summit that intermodal ‘needs to be on everybody’s mind’
You can’t reduce carbon emissions without measuring them first. C.H. Robinson experts discuss the company’s carbon measurement technology.
Zach Strickland, the Sultan of SONAR, talks about what the pandemic did to supply chains.
“They have been productive and have risen to the occasion. I really feel like the millennials were the ones that came of age with this pandemic,” said the EVP and COO of Melton Truck Lines during the FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit.
It’s a great WHAT THE TRUCK?!? special episode for the Enterprise Fleet Summit and Dooner and The Dude host four guests who provide insight on the tech advances being made for fleets of all sizes.
Embark Trucks hit the autonomous road sooner than the competition. Now it wants to help fleets get ready to plug into self-driving trucks.
Rob Hatchett, president of SeatMyTrucks, discusses why fleets are struggling to find truck drivers because of COVID-19 pandemic, with Marilyn Surber, transportation adviser for Tenstreet.
FreightTech companies showcased their cutting-edge technology solutions for common fleet inefficiencies during the Enterprise Fleet Summit.
Trimble MAPS worked with Wisconsin trucking company Roehl Transport to implement a navigation system to allow seamless and precise last-mile operations. The companies share their story during FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit.
Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association in 2007, and it has come a long way since. It now has a separate charity foundation, which provides students seeking transportation-related careers with scholarships.
A. Bailey Wood reveals his vision and goals as the new head of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association.
FreightWaves lead economist Anthony Smith looks at how SkyBitz is taking part in the adoption of 4G LTE for fleet hardware.
FreightWaves’ JT Engstrom and Ryder’s Steve Martin discuss facets of dedicated truckload operations, including service metrics, pricing levels and driver retention.
When capacity is tight and markets are tighter, being efficient is key to making sales. Kevin Hill walks you through the key data your team should be using to capitalize on the tightness.
“There is nothing worse than putting a driver in the truck who is going to drive 600 miles a day by himself and he is speculating that somebody either doesn’t care or isn’t listening or isn’t reacting to their needs,” said the president and CEO of Dart during the FreightWaves’ Enterprise Fleet Summit.
On this episode of Great Quarter, Guys for the FreightWaves Enterprise Fleet Summit, Andrew Cox and Seth Holm discuss how all modes of transportation are moving market indices.
Brent Bergevin, vice president of transportation at Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, chats with FreightWaves’ Zach Strickland about how Love’s handled market challenges over the last 12 months, from the COVID-19 pandemic to February’s severe winter weather.
The freight brokerage entrepreneur says Roadrunner can right the ship by keeping things simple.
The truckload market is looking very strong this year and freight brokers are riding high.
Intel’s Ravi Dosanjh and the Port of Long Beach’s Noel Hacegaba take on supply chain visibility.
“Detention is a very sticky subject. … Using [visibility] technology you have the data to determine the legitimacy of that request,” TruckerCloud CEO Sam Powers tells Grace Sharkey during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.
Chad Eichelberger and Emily Chiarizia discuss the best approaches for insurance requirements and vetting carriers.
What’s hot in FreighTech? Several companies showcased the best of the best during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.
In this Put That Coffee Down segment, Kevin Hill talks with Chris Hurst about why the freight and logistics sector is lagging, and why companies should fix that.
Nolan Transportation Group President Geoff Kelley chats with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom about how the logistics industry can move forward with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
K-Ratio’s Lintner says 3PLs facing being “underwater” need to have a conversation with the shipper, to benefit both.
Being the biggest or best company in an industry only appeals to customers if you explain how it benefits them, Lee Salz, CEO and author, said during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.
Workplace efficiency, whether in an office or at a desk at home, benefits from spending less time sorting emails..
ArcBest’s Danny Loe, head of asset-light logistics and chief yield officer, joins George Abernathy, president of FreightWaves, to chat about the new normal for procuring capacity during the 3PL Summit.
Turvo’s Luis Pajares explains why software that was traditionally optimized around a particular supply chain function needs to be reimagined from the 3PL customers’ perspective.
“Human-centered design is at the heart of what we do,” Transfix CEO Lily Shen tells Andrew Cox during an episode of Point of Sale aired as part of FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit.
Anne Reinke provides insight on current concerns and future opportunities as the president and CEO of TIA in keynote address.
“The pilot uses a game controller to position the hot stab in the receptacle, and the force compliance feature autocorrects manipulator orientation to eliminate any outside forces.”
Evolve keynote: Inevitable failures and what we can learn from them.
Sourcewater founder Josh Adler chats with Ancova co-founder Max Gagliardi about Sourcewater’s origins and its current role of helping upstream companies find water resources and frac ponds through big data and satellite imagery.
Data Gumbo’s Andrew Bruce and Atlas Operating’s Yousuf Chaudhary shed light on how decision-making around lease operating expenses is affected by data.
Collin McLelland sits down for a live episode of his podcast with SkyBitz’s Anton Albrand.
Oil developers can reduce exploration risk with new modeling software.
George Paraskevopoulos, director of business development for 2DA Analytics, joins Chuck Yates from Digital Wildcatters to chat about the changing landscape of midstream and refining at Evolve: The Next Generation of Oil & Gas.
Texas-based technology company ThoughtTrace demonstrates how its artificial intelligence-enabled platform can help companies better understand important documents, including contracts, during a rapid-fire demo at Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas, presented by Digital Wildcatters and FreightWaves.
Oil developers can reduce exploration risk with new modeling software.
“I personally think that the possibility that this pipeline is going to be emptied is much, much higher than it was before this administration was in office.”
Keynoting an Evolve summit session, Dan Pickering and Scott Gale call for traditional, transitional energy players to meet in the middle.
On this episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? for Digital Wildcatters’ oil and gas summit, Dooner and The Dude hear about the latest developments in the diesel market and how fuel impacts the logistics market.
In a rapid-fire demo during Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas summit, Eric Calderon and Arran Davidson of Power Sentry discuss the company’s innovative products for power management in the oil and gas industry aimed at reducing clients’ operating expense and downtime because of power disturbances.
Geosite’s energy lead Jeff Williams describes how his company fuses together data from various sources to enable energy clients to glean an informed perspective on their greenhouse gas emissions output.
Armand Paradis, CEO and founder of Inside Petroleum, joins Jake Corley, co-founder of Digital Wildcatters, to discuss automation and removing manual workflows during Evolve: The Next Generation of Oil & Gas.
Venture capital in oil and gas pales by comparison to climate technology investment, but there are potential unicorns out there.
EQT CEO Toby Rice gave the keynote Wednesday for “Evolve: The Next Evolution of Oil & Gas,” a virtual event presented by Digital Wildcatters and FreightWaves.
For the last day of Global Supply Chain Week, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the impact February’s winter storm had on Texas ports and how recovery is going with spring around the corner.
Jefferies senior analyst Randy Giveans outlines why it is now a particularly good time to buy container-shipping stocks.
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative’s road map to sustainability includes financial, social and environmental sustainability factors.
Today’s container market chaos underscores the need for enforceable ocean contracts as opposed to loose agreements, argues consultant Tom Craig.
Ocean Audit’s Steve Ferreira and AutoZone’s Jack Conaghan discuss how beneficial cargo owners should strategize contracts and containers during 2021.
Lina Jasutiene, managing director and founder of Recoupex and a former lawyer for the shipping line MSC, explains what shippers can do to successfully pursue damage claims. She talks to Steve Ferreira, the CEO of Ocean Audit, during a fireside chat at FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.
Brian Whitley’s airfreight business has been growing rapidly, but the events of 2020 forced him to adapt to quickly changing conditions.
You need to put yourself out there, be realistic and be patient to build a niche audience, says Tom Augenthaler, founder of 551 Media. “It doesn’t happen overnight.”
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