Technology

Technology firms aim to ease process of managing multiple carriers in regional markets.

LaneAxis is looking to drive efficiency in the trucking network by using blockchain to help shippers connect directly with carriers without brokers or 3PLs.

After remaining flat in 2015-16, the average fleet fuel economy for the nation’s top fleets improved in 2017, according to research conducted by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE).

China has toyed with the concept of bike-sharing but met with disastrous results due to an unsustainable business model and excessive dumping of bikes on the streets. The U.S. bike-sharing startups could take a leaf out of their book and improvise accordingly.

John Henry, director of sales for ZED Connect, explained to FreightWaves how the evolution of the company is developing to deliver vehicle data solutions centered around what its parent company Cummins knows best – engines.

This campaign seeks to increase transparency in programmatic ad buying and support the ways the company’s brands earn consumer attention.

The investment round values Uber at $72 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Joe DeLorenzo, director of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance for FMCSA, went through some of the common problems the agency is seeing since the ELD mandate went into effect, and there have been plenty.

A staid and technology-averse industry is in the process of changing thanks to new entrants.

While technology startups have jumped into trucking with the latest and greatest solutions, the old guard, if you will, has not been sitting idly by. This week at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, C.H. Robinson is showing drivers its Navisphere apps and how they can help drivers and small fleets find freight success.

Ports of LA and Long Beach have reduced emissions by replacing diesel-run equipments with zero-emission engines; oil prices rise over signs of U.S. sanctions on Iran; warehousing workers salaries have seen good increases over the last three years.

Salesforce, the original SaaS unicorn and the world’s leading customer relationship management platform, announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.

Sharelogis Trade Services China Ltd, the leading China-based provider of logistics services and supply chain solutions, announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.

The concept involves storing a multitude of various types of data within a distributed ledger network, including information about a given package’s destination, its movement and transportation plans for shipment units.

Uber Freight continues to gain scale as the company doubles-down on the business

By offering truck drivers and dock workers micropayments to upload data to the blockchain, Fr8 Network is changing the calculus of technology adoption and pushing the transportation industry forward.

As real estate prices are over the roof, the number of people willing to enter the housing market is at a record high. The mismatch needs to be addressed – possibly by better zonal regulations and technology injection in construction methods.

A mileage-based user fee pilot program using Azuga technology is helping to prove the viability of mileage-based vehicle taxes.

Once blockchain technology reaches a tipping point—with or without tokens—there should be another infusion of funding in the digital ad startup space and, as a result, innovation.

Maersk plans to make extra capacity available to shippers on NYSHEX