AI adoption across 13 supply chain functions averages 1.94 on a five-point scale. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi says companies are buying the tool before fixing the process.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means freight brokers can face state liability claims for their selection of carriers. For carriers, that shift turns a documented safety program from a compliance nicety into a competitive credential. In an upcoming webinar, Lytx® outlines the elements of a defensible safety record.
A month after agreeing to build its next Einride Driver on Nvidia Hyperion, Einride said it will adapt Alpamayo to its trucks, routes and data, with a road evaluation set for 2027.
Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, launched Agents on Monday at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition (MCE) in Charlotte, North Carolina. These AI Agents act on safety and maintenance alerts under rules a fleet sets, including calling drivers, opening work orders, and bringing in managers so teams can scale without adding […]
Phillips Connect launched two smart trailer products Sunday at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina. Insights reads trailer sensor data to diagnose tire and lighting problems. TrailerSignal, a light on the trailer nose, shows green when a trailer is ready to dispatch and amber when it isn’t. Both target […]
PACCAR Connect arrives in early 2027 and links Kenworth and Peterbilt drivers to Platform Science’s Virtual Vehicle app marketplace, days before PACCAR reports Q3 results.
As veteran dispatchers and ops managers age out of the workforce, small and mid-size freight operators are stuck running decades-old systems that never got the AI investment enterprise carriers did. Evos, an autonomous operation launching this fall, says it can capture that institutional knowledge and put it to work before it walks out the door.
Evos raised $9 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI operators that learn employees’ workflows and perform tasks within existing business software. One freight brokerage has used the technology to make nearly 3,500 invoice-auditing decisions in two months, according to the startup.
Georgia trucker Shawn Gresham has launched a free platform combining parking locations, roadside repair listings, diesel prices and driver resources.
Carrier Logistics and LSP44 have launched an API that uses shipment details such as company names, delivery locations and approximate dates to identify LTL freight when a valid tracking number is missing or incorrect.
Fleetworthy added four states to Expedited Inspection, which hands enforcement a driver’s eRODS file when a truck is selected. A Nevada sergeant puts the savings at about 15 minutes.
Westport Fuel Systems is now Aetherion Technologies. CEO Dan Sceli said the rename follows a narrower strategy built on HPDI and the Cespira joint venture with Volvo.
Waabi says its Dallas-Houston commercial load volume is up more than 80% this year, and Warrior Logistics is now running routine customer freight on the corridor
Samsara has made its no-code Agent Studio platform generally available, allowing customers to build AI agents for tasks such as driver compliance monitoring, operational reporting and driver communication. The company says usage has grown rapidly, though customer adoption and financial returns remain unclear.
Bot Auto will put Lenovo’s AD1 domain controller in its driverless Class 8 trucks starting in Q1 2027, part of a push toward 1 billion autonomous miles by 2031
Netradyne is expanding the agent ecosystem behind Netradyne Intelligence, adding ready-made agents, a custom agent builder and conversational answers drawn from live fleet data
Industry advocates want victims sharing what happened as sophisticated schemes expose new vulnerabilities across the supply chain.
Kodiak AI and cross-border carrier Charger Logistics are hauling CPG and food and beverage freight between Dallas and Laredo, Texas, with driverless operations planned after the safety case.
Dotra Compliance, an AI-driven platform built to serve as a carrier’s “virtual compliance department,” is helping small and midsize carriers close the gap between regulatory volume and in-house resources. Co-founder David Vincent explains why, after a Supreme Court ruling reshaped broker liability, a clean compliance record has become as important to winning freight as avoiding fines.
Investors and partners kept asking AV trucking companies how they would handle warning triangles. FMCSA’s five-year exemption answers that through October 2031
