Digital freight brokerage

The move signals the shift from a tech startup to a mature logistics operation.

A round at this valuation puts Convoy one step closer to an IPO.

Uber Freight makes it a point to meet drivers and carriers where they are.

McLeod built automated pricing for contract and spot and digital load matching products.

Digital freight brokers continue to add services in the pursuit of carrier stickiness.

Digital freight brokerage LoadSmart and self-driving startup Starsky Robotics announced they have successfully priced, booked and delivered two loads of freight without human intervention.

Ben Thrower writes about nearshoring manufacturing, which has gone on for decades. He also writes about the potential for nearshoring services, a new opportunity for both U.S. and Latin American businesses.

Charley Dehoney has written about the growth of digital freight brokerages and what they bring to the market and the industry.

In March and April, Amazon handled 45 percent of its own packages.

A few months after launching the Facility Ratings feature in its app, Uber Freight has published its first Facility Insights Report, a compendium and analysis of carriers’ ratings of shipper facilities that will be released on a regular cadence. Digital freight brokerage apps continue to roll out new features and services to drive carrier engagement. […]

The good news is that Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates thinks that U.S. third-party logistics providers’ (3PLs) revenues will grow at a 7.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years, and brokers will become more productive as artificial intelligence automates up to 50 percent of their repetitive tasks. The bad […]

Transfix, the venture capital-backed digital freight marketplace based in New York City, announced that Ahmad El-Dardiry joined the company as its new chief revenue officer. El-Dardiry comes to Transfix from a 19-year stint at Intel Corporation, where most recently he managed cloud computing, memory and storage enterprise sales in the Americas, Asia and global industry […]

Amazon could build a zero-margin equivalent of C.H. Robinson inside the ‘shipping costs’ line on its P&L without anyone noticing.

Amazon could build a zero-margin equivalent of C.H. Robinson inside the ‘shipping costs’ line on its P&L without anyone noticing.

Technology is disrupting the logistics industry at a breakneck pace, and brokerages are not exempt from the changes. While new technologies are intended to help companies run smoother, the implementation process can be riddled with challenges.

Transfix is betting that its carriers care more about asset utilization than rate per mile.

Insurgent digital brokerage apps are increasing their share of downloads while load boards are largely stagnant.

In partnership with Redwood Logistics… we spoke to Michael Johnson, the architect of Strive Logistics’ LoadRunner matching and pricing engine.

Telematics is projected to triple by 2025.

The feature is intended to save carriers time and money that they would spend searching for and booking loads.