AI

FreightWaves Staff Monday, August 25, 2025

Pallet recognized for customer-specific end-to-end AI

Pallet emerged as a FreightTech trailblazer and became a winner of FreightWaves’ inaugural AI Excellence in Supply Chain award for its cutting-edge solution, CoPallet. The company is confronting a significant inefficiency in the supply chain industry, where manual workflows such as quoting, load building, rate negotiation, and updating portals have become bottlenecks. These repetitive tasks […]

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Craig Fuller, CEO at FreightWaves Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The AI revolution is here; Firecrown & FreightWaves are on the front lines

There’s been considerable discussion recently about how we use AI for content production at Firecrown across all our brands. Setting aside misrepresentations, we’d like to clarify how our team leverages AI and the expectations we established months ago. Any media company not using AI at this point is already behind, particularly in the digital space. […]

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Rob Carpenter Monday, August 4, 2025

Motive’s $150M War Chest Signals All-Out Assault on Fleet Tech Dominance

Motive Technologies closed a $150 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins this week, positioning the AI-powered platform for aggressive expansion beyond its dashcam origins. What started as fleet management in 2015 has evolved into an integrated operations platform spanning driver safety, fuel cards, workforce management, and fraud detection, serving nearly 100,000 customers with AI capabilities that achieve up to 80% collision reductions.

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FreightWaves Staff Friday, June 27, 2025

DOT Secretary plans to use AI to solve carrier identity

The Freight Fraud Crisis The trucking industry is grappling with a surge in freight fraud, leaving carriers, brokers, and shippers vulnerable to sophisticated scams like identity theft and unauthorized double brokering. These schemes disrupt supply chains, undermine trust, and cause significant financial and logistical challenges. The root cause is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s […]

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