Aurora Innovation signed a nonbinding MOU with Charger Logistics for up to 500 driverless trucks, adding to a carrier-owned pipeline Aurora needs to hit its 2030 targets.
Merchants Fleet launched FleetShare in Puerto Rico on Sept. 14 for an unnamed global e-commerce company. It did not disclose contract terms or pricing.
Highway takes top spot in FreightWaves’ 2027 FreightTech 25 for the third consecutive year as freight fraud prevention, AI automation and autonomous trucking emerged as key themes across the rankings.
Asset-tracking company Band24 is seeking businesses to test Terra, a new tracker combining Bluetooth, cellular and satellite connectivity, ahead of a Nov. 13 deadline for its early-access program. The device is designed to help logistics operators maintain visibility into trailers, shipping containers and other equipment in areas with limited network coverage, with commercial availability planned […]
Double Nickel has launched an artificial intelligence agent to automate employment verifications for trucking companies, targeting a time-consuming part of driver recruiting and regulatory compliance. The New York-based company said Thursday, Oct. 22, that its Vera agent completed 40% of employment verifications autonomously during beta testing. Two trucking carriers with more than 500 trucks between […]
Spartan Carrier Group built its first AI agent for hourly customer reports in a week and a half. Its VP of operations, who calls himself no coder, wants dispatchers building the next ones.
123Loadboard and Direct Freight are combining two independent freight marketplaces so brokers can close capacity gaps and carriers can find better-matched freight. Vice President of Sales Carmelo Messina explains why the industry’s biggest problem is still the loads that don’t get covered.
AI adoption across 13 supply chain functions averages 1.94 on a five-point scale. ASCM CEO Abe Eshkenazi says companies are buying the tool before fixing the process.
Johannes Ariens sells everything from electric motorcycles to hydrogen semis. He says the industry is trying to skip a step, and that small fleets with medium-duty trucks should go first.
FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival returns to Chattanooga next week, with sessions on AI adoption, autonomous trucking and the technologies reshaping freight operations taking center stage. The event, held Oct. 27-28 at The Signal at Chattanooga Choo Choo, will feature keynote presentations, fireside chats, technology demonstrations and discussions about how companies are applying new […]
A month after agreeing to build its next Einride Driver on Nvidia Hyperion, Einride said it will adapt Alpamayo to its trucks, routes and data, with a road evaluation set for 2027.
Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, launched Agents on Monday at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition (MCE) in Charlotte, North Carolina. These AI Agents act on safety and maintenance alerts under rules a fleet sets, including calling drivers, opening work orders, and bringing in managers so teams can scale without adding […]
Freightos’ board has agreed to put founder Zvi Schreiber’s proposals to a vote at its December annual meeting, escalating a dispute over the company’s focus on software over its booking platform. Schreiber, who resigned from the board in February, says the strategy is failing as AI threatens software products.
Phillips Connect launched two smart trailer products Sunday at the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition in Charlotte, North Carolina. Insights reads trailer sensor data to diagnose tire and lighting problems. TrailerSignal, a light on the trailer nose, shows green when a trailer is ready to dispatch and amber when it isn’t. Both target […]
PACCAR Connect arrives in early 2027 and links Kenworth and Peterbilt drivers to Platform Science’s Virtual Vehicle app marketplace, days before PACCAR reports Q3 results.
Evos raised $9 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI operators that learn employees’ workflows and perform tasks within existing business software. One freight brokerage has used the technology to make nearly 3,500 invoice-auditing decisions in two months, according to the startup.
Carrier Logistics and LSP44 have launched an API that uses shipment details such as company names, delivery locations and approximate dates to identify LTL freight when a valid tracking number is missing or incorrect.
Fleetworthy added four states to Expedited Inspection, which hands enforcement a driver’s eRODS file when a truck is selected. A Nevada sergeant puts the savings at about 15 minutes.
Westport Fuel Systems is now Aetherion Technologies. CEO Dan Sceli said the rename follows a narrower strategy built on HPDI and the Cespira joint venture with Volvo.
Waabi says its Dallas-Houston commercial load volume is up more than 80% this year, and Warrior Logistics is now running routine customer freight on the corridor
