Technology

Nominations for the eighth annual 2027 FreightTech Awards will officially open this coming Monday, June 29, 2026.

Cargo theft costs U.S. businesses $35 billion annually. Samsara’s new tracking label delivers real-time freight visibility across any carrier with no system overhaul required.

EDI has been broken for 40 years,” said Erik Kiser, founder and CEO. “Not because the problem was unsolvable, but because no one was willing to rebuild it from the ground up.

Bendix and Aeva bring 4D LiDAR to Class 8 collision mitigation via Fusion ADAS. Collaboration targets L2+ driver assistance in mass production for fleets

DHL has transitioned autonomous vehicles from its Fast Forward Challenge into daily operations at the Advanced Regional Center in Singapore. In partnership with Zelostech, the company now operates fully electric, driverless vehicles for point-to-point transfers between logistics facilities on campus. These shuttles handle repetitive hub-to-hub movements that require tight coordination, where delays from congestion or […]

AVI-SPL and Volvo Autonomous Solutions launch driverless freight on Dallas-Houston lane using Aurora-powered Volvo VNL trucks for audio-visual equipment transport.

The freight industry stands at a crossroads that looks remarkably familiar to anyone who remembers the early days of fintech. Before Plaid became the connective tissue linking bank accounts to lending decisions, borrowers shuffled paperwork and lenders operated on good faith. Now that same transformation is coming for trucking, and Highway’s Chief Commercial Officer Michael […]

Boston-based Teradar recently announced a paid technical evaluation program with a top German automaker for its terahertz vision technology. The milestone represents a key step forward for Teradar’s flagship Summit sensor. The sensor will be tested against edge cases that continue to expose the limitations of cameras, lidar and radar. These include detecting a fallen […]

The platform gives certified carriers direct access to C.H. Robinson committed freight opportunities with human oversight on every bid.

Seattle-based logistics company Expeditors International is cutting more than 200 IT jobs.

The July 4 holiday doesn’t create supply chain vulnerabilities. It exposes them. As freight sits unattended and operations slow down, security experts warn that organized theft groups are watching closely.

FreightWaves will host its annual Future of Freight Festival (F3) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, culminating in the prestigious 2027 FreightTech Awards dinner.

Volvo Autonomous Solutions will go fully driverless on U.S. highways in Q1 2027, targeting more than 300 trucks by year-end and nearly $3 billion in revenue.

Einride began trading on Nasdaq after completing its de-SPAC. The company is scaling both electric trucks and cabless autonomous vehicles.

Bennett Family of Companies CIO Praveen Boppana details the shift from paper logs to ELDs and dash cams plus the three-year AI TMS roadmap with Motive.

Relay Payments has signed a deal to have its services available through Platform Science.

Volvo Trucks will launch unattended over-the-air software updates later this year, allowing fleets to update parked trucks while drivers are away.

FreightWaves SONAR will launch its first virtual Driver App Shortage Hackathon on June 15-22 to address the lack of software built primarily for truck drivers.

PepsiCo and Gatik have launched the largest commercial driverless trucking deployment to date, with operations now live across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas

Samsara has settled a trade secret dispute with a former employee who left to join competitor Motive.