FreightWaves

Coming to you live from FreightWaves LIVE Chicago’s Live Stage, it’s FreightWaves CEO and founder Craig Fuller along with Dynamo Ventures’ Jon Bradford talking about the intersection of venture capital and freight. If you missed it live, we present it here in all its glory. More podcasts at FreightWaves Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-freights-sake/id1483839863 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/186RXXVieFDN8HdfCFk5Cy?si=aGJBvlsBRpu2IhA1CLW7JA

Trucking Freight Futures continue to be bogged down in a directionless and low volatility cycle.

Lack of volatility on Wednesday keeps the Trucking Freight Futures markets generally flat.

“My full-time job is to research and bring back ideas to prototype,” Matt McLelland said.

Trucking Freight Futures Markets were little changed with light holiday interest.

SONAR 5.0 has new maps, alerts, rate predictions, and air and ocean data.

FreightWaves employs about 40 reporters across the globe, produces 10 podcasts and has launched the first streaming TV network dedicated to freight.

Ten of eleven Trucking Freight Futures markets finish week of November 8th lower.

The National Trucking Freight Futures forward curve indicates a a narrow rate range through 2020.

Trucking Freight Futures pointing towards an uncertain to negative rate environment.

Trucking Freight Futures mostly unchanged on Tuesday in quiet trading session.

After Friday’s trading session, volatility appears to be creeping back into the Trucking Freight Futures market.

Spot month Trucking Freight Futures rates rise Thursday as futures contracts roll over to November.

Spot month futures contracts eerily quiet approaching Halloween expiration.

FreightWaves’ articles now include audio recordings, so you can listen to an article in addition or instead of reading it!

Spot month Trucking Freight Futures contracts are generally quiet approaching expiration.

The Los Angeles to Dallas spot contract (VLD) weighed on the South region, dragging National Trucking Freight Futures lower on Monday.

Volatility returned late last week in the West and South Trucking Freight Futures markets.

New features have been added to FreightWaves SONAR. Learn about them here!

All remained quiet on Thursday as Trucking Freight Futures spot contracts near expiration.

Trucking Freight Futures relatively unchanged in quiet Wednesday trading session.

Trucking Freight Futures forward curve on Tuesday points to higher short-term National rates.

Trade executed in the November National Trucking Freight Futures contract; South and West futures remain volatile on Monday.

The FreightTech 100 highlights the most innovative and disruptive companies across the freight industry, featuring both cutting-edge upstarts and top-notch traditional powers.

South and West freight futures tumble Friday, weighing on National average.

New features have been added to FreightWaves SONAR. Learn about them in this article.

South and West Trucking Freight Futures stumble on Thursday, dragging the National average lower.

FreightTech, mobility and trade on tap in discussions drawing a mix of industry titans, emerging players and luminaries during FreightWaves’ high-tempo two-day conference in Chicago.

Fundamentals in the Atlanta market a key driver for East regional Trucking Freight Futures on Wednesday.

East Trucking Freight Futures on Tuesday continued to lead a lackluster market.

As a venture capitalist himself, Dan Conner shared what he believes every founder should know when seeking to raise capital.

National Trucking Freight Futures rates open the week lower on weakness in the East.

Philadelphia to Chicago futures (VPC) rise on Thursday as market continues to focus on trade flows.

After a successful tenure with a startup freight forwarder, Fava is excited to start a new chapter at FreightWaves.

Fundamentals continue to drive strength in the East regional freight futures markets.

Freight futures looking beyond the East region for some direction on Tuesday.

Atlanta market freight futures strengthen on Monday as a result of trade flows.

National futures forward curve points to potential economic trouble ahead.

Freight Futures mostly unchanged in quiet trading session on Wednesday.

After a lower contract roll, Freight Futures start looking to fundamentals.

Last week in Trucking Freight Futures: A tale of three regions!

A big drop in the East region drives the National freight futures index lower on Thursday.

Freight Futures quiet on Wednesday with a focus on PHI.

Freight Futures forward curves on Tuesday point to a mixed to lower rate environment.

Weakness in East drives National freight futures lower for the week ending 9/20.

FreightWaves President George Abernathy makes hedging fun at CSCMP Edge 2019.

A rate correction in the East drives National freight futures lower on Thursday.

Increased freight volumes out of Texas due to Imelda drive DAL to LAX futures on Wednesday.

LAX to SEA futures strengthen on Tuesday in an otherwise quiet day.

Trucking Freight Futures began the week Monday with mixed results.

Lower Friday spells end to a mostly down week for Freight Futures.

FreightWaves has been chosen out of hundreds of applicants to be one of 36 tech companies featured at Venture Atlanta.

Market interest shifts West with potential ease in trade tensions.

Freight Futures data to watch today: Spot National vs Regionals The spot month National contract (FUT.VNU201909) closed down 0.35% to $1.467 per mile. Regionally, the East contract (FUT.VEU201909) continued to give back some of the Dorian risk premiums and settled the day 1% lower at $1.687, while the South contract (FUT.VSU201909) was off $0.002 to $1.224. […]

Futures prices being driven by shifting freight flows to the East

7-minute company demos will garner a lot of attention at the upcoming FreightWaves LIVE Chicago conference, November 12-13.

CHI to ATL futures (VCA) lower on Dorian “risk premium” removal.

PHI to CHI lane (VPC) stronger on increased freight into NY/NJ

Futures forward curve sentiment falls for freight out of LAX

Understanding all of your options when it comes to improving driver comfort

FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller has been named to the Folio: 100.

East region forward curve tracks lower expectations for rates and impact of Dorian

East futures lanes little changed on the uncertainty of Dorian; SEA to LAX firms

Trucking Freight Futures lanes in and out of ATL up significantly in fear of Dorian

Freight Futures lane to watch today: ATL to PHI

Freight Futures lane to watch today: East US Long Haul Van Average

Freight Futures lane to watch: LAX to SEA

Filament announced its adoption of the MOBI Vehicle Identity Standard within the Blocket Mobility Platform, which is a turn-key vehicle identity (VID) solution created for integrated vehicle wallet and usage-based applications.  Filament is a provider of enterprise automotive blockchain and internet of things (IoT) solutions. Its hardware, software and service solutions enable connected vehicles to […]

Small carriers that do not have the change their hardware in order to make the switch to ELDs need the shortest lead time.

Jim Blaze writes about FreightWaves SONAR and how it could be a helpful tool for the freight railroads.

FreightWaves is expanding with a new office in Portland, Oregon. There are opportunities for data scientists, software engineers and journalists.

FreightWaves, the industry-leading provider of 24/7 news, data and analytics for the global freight and logistics markets, announces the start of the nomination process for the 2020 FreightTech 100 Awards. “The 2019 FreightTech 100 Awards were a great success,” stated FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller. “More than 500 companies were nominated for the awards, and those […]

Will Sehestedt will focus on building relationships on behalf of FreightWaves with associations and universities.

Deciding to purchase a Class 8 truck is a large and serious investment. Truck drivers often dream about the day they drive their very own Class 8 vehicle off the lot. However, these commercial machines are not cheap nor is it an easy task to keep up. Whether you are planning to start or expand […]

Empty miles are a billion-dollar problem for trucking fleets, but are they more of a problem than they were in 2002? Recent headlines indicate they may be, but they may not tell the true story.

Delta Cargo has chosen FreightWaves SONAR for global freight intelligence and data analytics.

Over 90 percent of small carriers that have not made the switch to electronic logging devices (ELDs) yet plan to stick with their old devices until the last quarter of 2019.

FreightWaves, the leading source of news, data and insights for the freight markets, has acquired American Shipper, a leading news publication serving the global shipper community.

FreightWaves partnered with freight brokerage Convoy to recognize Target as one of its top Shippers of Choice.

The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group has released another study – this one on autonomous trucking. Read what they foresee for the trucking industry and drivers in the years ahead.

Ease of doing business ranked high with drivers serving over 40 facilities.

Blockchain technology can disrupt the transportation industry by bringing in digitization, trust and transparency to the market. But this will not be possible without a clear set of common and open standards.

Getting trucking right is particularly important for a company like General Mills (NYSE: GIS), which has faced so much cost pressure from this aspect of its supply chain in the recent past. General Mills is indeed getting trucking right. It placed tenth among 25 companies in FreightWaves’ Shipper of Choice Awards, conducted in partnership with […]

The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group is producing research culled from FreightWaves SONAR and other sources. Read about its first several research papers and how to learn more.

Global shipping and logistics giant UPS said it collaborates directly with its customers to reduce wait times at docks to increase efficiency and productivity and reduce detention time for its drivers.