The Home Depot, a current customer of Loadsmart, was happy to see the brokerage continue its commitment to bring freight optimization to its supply chain.
On Wednesday, the company reported Q4 earnings and 208% of year-over-year growth.
LoadStop digitizes fleet operations with automated dispatch and carrier TMS.
SmartHop, an early-stage startup offering a dispatch solution for small carriers, on Tuesday announced its partnership with Redwood Logistics, a third-party logistics company. The companies will integrate Redwood’s API with SmartHop’s solution to streamline and increase opportunities for drivers and shippers. “Nearly 90% of the trucking industry is powered by small carriers, yet the support […]
The partnership will give shippers access to smaller trucking operators.
LoadSmart and Uber Freight attract venture-style capital from traditional investors.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, spot rates could be heading higher yet again. Plus, truckload carriers wonder if we are in peak season or a new normal; and a Texas group tackles tort reform.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, J.B. Hunt is not expecting a slowdown in freight through at least the first quarter of 2021. Plus, Nikola Corp. and General Motors continue talking about a battery agreement, and some roads are just made for truckers.
Loadsmart has added less-than-truckload (LTL) and rail services as the digital freight brokerage continues to expand its multimodal offerings. The expansion, announced Tuesday, allows customers to book shipments across all major transportation modes, building on existing capabilities for truckload, port drayage and transload. “Loadsmart is now a one-stop-shop logistics solution for domestic freight,” said Felipe […]
COVID’s disruptions have created an acute awareness of the need for innovation.
Smart Drayage platform aims to automate the largely manual processes of container retrieval.
“By employing remote drivers, we can make trucks fully driverless while still keeping humans in the loop,” said Seltz-Axmacher.
Sune Stilling, head of Growth for Maersk, right, said the investment fund is focused on companies that keep the customer — not a billion-dollar valuation — in mind when developing their solutions.
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Maersk and Ports America onboard with app designed to optimize fraught process of picking up boxes.
FreightTech venture investing is super hot, but most of these startups continue to lose money. Is this a fad or something else? Last year, FreightWaves created a FreightTech Venture Index to track the venture capital (VC) investing in FreightTech startups. The term FreightTech is defined loosely as software companies and other technologies that aid in […]
Maersk is partnering with Indian digital freight startup BlackBuck to enter the Indian containerized trucking market for export-import logistics.
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.
Loadsmart, a digital freight brokerage, today announced a collaboration to provide Oracle Logistics Cloud customers instantly bookable truckload rates and guaranteed capacity from its network of carriers directly in Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) Cloud. Fortune 500 customers such as Kraft-Heinz and The Coca-Cola Company can now leverage Loadsmart’s dynamic routing guide technology within the OTM […]
From driver health concerns to snow build-up on equipment, braving the winter months often requires carriers to plan in advance. Spireon hosted a webinar in collaboration with FreightWaves earlier this week to offer carriers tips on how to best prepare their drivers and their fleets for winter weather.
