Technology

Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) announced today it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). 

Driver retention is a hot button topic in trucking right now. Some trucking companies are focusing their technological improvements on helping create a better environment for their pivotal employees.

While April 1 turned out not to be the total disaster so many predicted, the hard enforcement date has brought pain to some individual truck drivers and fleets who continue to be tripped up by common mistakes.

Irrespective of who wins the race to deploy the first fully autonomous vehicles, the unanimous view was that in the future, size is going to matter and carriers/OEMs will need balance sheets to be able to survive.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is building and testing a Hyperloop network in Toulouse, France which on paper, has the capacity to move people and freight at speeds of about 760mph. 

Ricardo’s spinoff Dolphin N2 is developing an engine based on CryoPower technology, which it believes can reduce CO2 emissions and boost engine efficiency.

Precision Software, a provider of global trade management and transportation execution solutions, today announced it has joined BiTA.

Dolly is a last-mile delivery startup that is providing consumers the power to dictate their delivery processes, by determining when their product needs to be loaded, transported, and delivered.

Airbus is designing passenger modules that can fit inside the aircraft’s cargo compartments, providing passengers an improved air-travel experience.

project44, a logistics technology company, seeks to use technology to provide much-needed enhancements to visibility in the transportation and logistics industries.

Fraight AI, the industry’s first AI-enabled freight brokerage, announced today that it has joined  BiTA.

Smart Trailers:  How the new “IoT” can help improve trailer health and optimize utilization across trailer pools.

Motiv is producing an all-electric chassis that offers the same performance and functionality as a diesel or gasoline equipped equivalent.

ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced that it has joined BiTA.

PAM Transport, Inc., a top 100 largest For-Hire Carrier in North America, announced today that it has joined BiTA.

Businesses with complex supply chains need to stop assuming infinite capacity capabilities and be pragmatic with their capacity planning by leveraging technology.

Blockchain, digital freight brokerages, and heavy-truck telematics are just a few of the themes that will be addressed at the upcoming Transparency18 Future of Freight conference, powered by FreightWaves and in conjunction with the Blockchain in Transport Alliance and Georgia Tech.

One of the largest trends in technology today is connecting machines directly — without humans in between.

Uber Freight had a prime spot at the entrance to the show floor last week at the Mid-America Trucking Show, hoping to draw attention to its services as well as its new Uber Freight Plus program.

The KeepTruckin ELD is providing useful data that the company is turning into actionable information for customers.