Freight matching

Canadian digital-freight matching platform seeks to list on TSX Venture Exchange with “conservative” C$34 million valuation.

From their Seattle headquarters, the executive team talks operations, startup culture and the enduring importance of the human factor.

California-based startup Cargomatic competes in the local freight-matching marketplace, using technology to connect drivers and shippers without all the back office red tape.

Fretlink connects thousands of carriers with large shippers through a digital freight marketplace that offers reliability on service and freight hauling prices.

All of the carriers on Transplace’s platform will integrate with Descartes MacroPoint by January 2020.

The first Uber Freight European load has been moved in the Netherlands. The cargo was for Heineken.

Freight matching startup SmartHop has built a technology platform that helps truckers plan, search and book their loads in a fraction of the time it takes to sift through traditional load boards.

Uber released its S-1 filing after the market close, placing in on track to go public with its anticipated May IPO.

sennder has raised investment to expand its digital freight markeplace footprint across Europe.

KeepTruckin has announced plans to launch a first-of-its-kind load-matching platform that uses data collected from its electronic logging devices, or ELDs, to help match small-business carriers with available freight.

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

Hwy Haul is a freight logistics startup that uses data science and optimization algorithms to connect carrier capacity with freight volumes over a digital trucking marketplace.

Convoy is now matching 100 percent of loads automatically in major markets, effectively eliminating the need for any person to call or communicate between the shipper and carrier.

In partnership with Trucker Tools…In the transportation industry, time is money. Trucker Tools uses their Smart Capacity system to eliminate stale or obsolete data in order to streamline the brokerage process, saving time and money every step of the way.

Presented by Trucker Tools…

Uber shut down its self-driving truck platform last week but promised in an exclusive interview with FreightWaves that Uber Freight was not going anywhere. Today, the company has not only confirmed that promise, but it has doubled down on the future of Uber Freight.

Regardless of technology, the transportation industry is still built on relationships.

Two-year-old startup NEXT Trucking has secured $21 million in a Series B round of financing, led by Sequoia Capital, as it seeks to stand out in a crowded field of competitors looking to match available truck capacity with freight.

A Brazilian trucking startup, CargoX, has successfully secured $20 million in a Series C funding backed by banking behemoth Goldman Sachs, TechCrunch reports.

The process of matching freight is complicated – with many parameters involved in exploring thousands of different possible combinations in real time and in identifying the best possible match to the parties involved. TGMatrix, a startup based out of Oxford in the United Kingdom, is working on creating an intermodal freight matching engine.