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In partnership, FreightWaves and Convoy recently released a report on the awareness and impact of empty miles.

MVMNT’s complete freight management platform gives you control over your freight without the disproportionate cost of a traditional TMS.

Going green isn’t just about electrification.

TriumphPay takes the hassle out of carrier payments, allowing brokers to focus on what they do best.

Currently, 87 million metric tons of that can be traced to non-revenue—or empty—miles.

As shippers move to digitize their documents and automate their processes, they should focus on making sure both efficiency and accuracy benchmarks are met. One document processing error can sideline an entire shipment, undermining profitability and customer satisfaction.

Along with product controls and safety checks, all-risk coverage helps Paragon transport Mexican seafood to the United States without worry.

Truckers used as ‘eyes and ears’ to assist law enforcement.

According to the most recent U.N. climate change report, the impacts of global warming are becoming more widespread and severe across the world.

While innovation in the autonomous space is moving at breakneck speed, Locomation has devised a way to help trucking companies re-engineer their operating models to begin seeing major efficiency gains even before they deploy autonomous trucks.

Many carriers have turned to technology in order to reduce the risk of serious lawsuits while simultaneously lowering insurance premiums. Digital safety management solutions are on the rise, and these tools can offer carriers the transparency and visibility they need in order to create a safer fleet.

In a constrained market environment like the one seen over the past couple of years, shippers are always looking to cut costs and gain more bargaining power. That makes granular insights more important than ever.

As the industry continues to move away from clunky legacy solutions, more companies are choosing solutions based on user interface. While an intuitive interface is important, this can sometimes come at the expense of a strong back-end product.

Companies like ACI Logistix are using this broader approach to delivery as leverage in building their businesses.

Mexico’s wild west freight landscape is quickly being tamed by forward-thinking companies utilizing visibility technologies and all-risk insurance solutions.

Decreasing turnover rates and making companies more efficient requires job transparency to pull in the right people and maintaining a constant state of innovation to attract more people.

Cloud-based solutions – think Uber and Airbnb – have quickly overtaken their more traditional competitors in other industries. In time, a similar trend will likely be observed in transportation and logistics.

Given the strong head winds they’re about to face, brokers should urgently consider making changes, to the way they’re conducting business.

As parcel demand has skyrocketed, shippers have obviously been faced with serious capacity issues.

It is not likely that routing guides are going to become extinct, but they will be smaller, more shallow and very much digital.