Adapting to customers’ and carriers’ needs through innovation is key to the continued growth of J.B. Hunt’s 360 digital freight marketplace platform.
A look into a market share report from UBS.
Driegert said that shipper expectations for technology and speed of execution have irrevocably shifted.
Growth at Uber Freight took a pause in Q1 while the digital brokerage trimmed losses.
Convoy built data-driven tools to be more fluid and responsive.
API integrations with shippers and carrier density were key.
Digital freight brokerage Transfix laid off about 10% of its staff on Tuesday
Cargo X is Brazil’s largest digital freight marketplace, connecting about 20,000 carriers and their 400,000 truckers with freight.
Shen was previously chief operating officer and president.
Simplicity — Coyote’s guiding philosophy in its quest to make the diverse marketplace easier to access regardless of the end user — has served the company well. After its founding in 2006, Coyote had quite a decade. By 2014, it was large enough to acquire Access America for an estimated $260 million, and by the […]
KeepTruckin is shutting down OPL after less than a year in order to create a neutral freight marketplace.
Knight-Swift Logistics will be part of a pilot program that will test DAT Solutions’ new Book Now automated freight tendering solution.
FreightRoll is a trade documentation and tracking platform that enables companies to digitalize paper documents from their freight operations.
Sendengo is a digital freight brokerage that enables users to control transactions and helps reduce cargo theft.
Capacity is a proof of concept for smaller brokerages building out their own freight-matching platforms.
Christenson will focus on scaling UF Europe “at speed and responsibly.”
With companies like Convoy achieving a $1 billion valuation in roughly four years, or publicly-traded companies like Uber and Amazon encroaching on the brokerage space, it is getting harder for the smaller, “relationship-based” brokers to compete. Whether it’s managed transportation, trailer pooling, warehousing or last-mile, brokers should be looking for ways to increase their value, […]
Charley Dehoney writes about the founding of GlobalTranz and the companies that were begun by “alumni” of the “GlobalTranz Mafia.”
Supply chain solutions major J.B. Hunt finished fourth on the FreightTech 25 list, thanks to its efforts in digitalizing freight matching and democratizing access across carriers of all sizes.
According to CEO, the biggest problems freight brokers face are visibility and ‘one-load wonders.’
