“If you mask your data and someone accesses it, it’s like stealing an empty purse.” — Matt Yeh, senior director of product marketing for Delphix, on cloud data security and the impact it has on remote work.
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller chats with Shelley Simpson, Chief Commercial Officer of J.B. Hunt.
New technology, capital, and business models have changed the competitive landscape.
The recent Stay Metrics Stay Index Report echoed consistent themes among truck drivers: they want to work for companies with a driver-centric culture and get paid fairly for their time and service. Stress related to lack of home time, equipment troubles, and delays were highlighted as top concerns. While the focus of the report wasn’t specifically researching new trucking technology, integrating digital tools into everyday processes can address these concerns.
J.B. Hunt’s fourth quarter call addresses some challenges facing its brokerage and intermodal businesses.
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.
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller chats with J.B. Hunt Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson.
It’s the What the Truck?!? power hour of freight from #FWLive Chicago, featuring an all-star cast. Dooner and Chad interview J.B. Hunt’s Shelley Simpson, project44’s Jett McCandless, SAP’s Franz Hero and Paige Wei-Cox, Redwood Logistics’ Mark Yeager, FreightWaves’ Craig Fuller and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts guy Jayson Gonzalez! Subscribe Apple Podcasts Spotify Watch the LIVE video […]
Hunt thinks that an additional 7 to 11 million loads per year could shift from the highway to intermodal.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services reports earnings light of expectations, but cost headwinds from digital platform transformation appear to be the primary culprits.
The outlook from JBHT was notably better than the concern around the lack of an uptick in seasonal demand that many carriers expressed at multiple investor conferences in May and June.
A lot of things have to go right for DFBs to build a market large enough to justify their valuations.
Commentary As digital freight brokerage apps learn to concentrate on driving user engagement and building dynamic marketplaces that adapt to user behavior, they will start to resemble social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Tinder. Apps like Uber Freight, Convoy, Transfix, J.B. Hunt 360, C.H. Robinson’s Navisphere and EchoShip/Drive were designed to cover loads […]
Truckers, fleet managers, and brokers face any number of regulatory tasks, load optimization and business decisions every single day. Add to that the decision on which technology, software or service best helps manage those tasks, and the chore becomes overwhelming. But one goal of Transparency 19 was to help all stakeholders discern what is the […]
Over the last decade, J.B. Hunt has not only tripled in size, but has evolved from a big truckload and intermodal operator to offering dedicated services and what has turned into a billion-dollar brokerage and third-party logistics provider (3PL). The next stage, according to Shelley Simpson, the company’s chief commercial officer, executive vice president and […]
J.B. Hunt wants to make freight marketplaces more efficient by making information more transparent.
