“Human-centered design is at the heart of what we do,” Transfix CEO Lily Shen tells Andrew Cox during an episode of Point of Sale aired as part of FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, raising fuel taxes could be an option to pay for infrastructure, and a truck driver who faced a life-or-death decision on a bridge is rewarded for his choice.
Dooner and The Dude bring on Shannon Curier to talk Christmas philanthropy, Bob Farrell CEO of Global Tranz, and CEO of Transfix to discuss why data is king.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, YRC’s loan is facing scrutiny from Congress, plus LTL tonnage is on the rise and prosecutors ask for the reinstatement of the conviction of former Pilot CEO Mark Hazelwood and two others.
Transfix will integrate project44’s visibility platform into its shipment tracking technology as the first initiative under a multiyear strategic partnership.
Digital freight-matching brokerage Transfix is in discussions with a special purpose acquisition company that could lead to its listing as a public company, according to Bloomberg.
Dooner and The Dude discuss buying habits before Black Friday, plus they welcome the flyest guy on 18 wheels
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, a Florida jury awards a plaintiff $411 million in the latest nuclear verdict. Plus, a lack of freight capacity has some worrying about holiday shipping delays, and Toyota and Hino will bring a Class 8 fuel-cell electric truck to the U.S. next year.
The fleet management solution is Transfix’s first foray into a pure software product.
Carriers, logistics businesses and technology providers make the cut in 2020.
Digital freight brokerage Transfix laid off about 10% of its staff on Tuesday
Shen was previously chief operating officer and president.
This white paper pairs FreightWaves’ survey results with SONAR data to closely examine the contributing factors of volatility in the most recent freight cycle, predict the tightening market in 2020 and show how shippers can use data to increase visibility and stability.
Brian Aoaeh writes about key trucking events in 2019 and looks ahead to 2020.
Traditional freight brokerages are ramping up technological spending to keep pace with the industry.
The marketplace for truckload transportation is fragmented and opaque. Relationships between shippers and carriers are tenuous at best, forged and broken by wild swings in capacity availability and rates per mile. In this white paper, Transfix and FreightWaves define the problems distorting the marketplace for truckload transportation, discuss how carriers think about their assets, explain the role of technology in reducing empty miles, and sketch out the economic dynamics that come into play when the marketplace is optimized to free up capacity at the right price.
Transfix chief operating officer Lily Shen has added president to her title. The digital freight marketplace announced Shen’s promotion on August 14. Prior to joining New York City-based Transfix about two years ago, Shen spent nearly 20 years in Silicon Valley. She was the executive director of mobility and advanced technology for IDEO for a […]
A lot of things have to go right for DFBs to build a market large enough to justify their valuations.
Transfix, the venture capital-backed digital freight marketplace based in New York City, announced that Ahmad El-Dardiry joined the company as its new chief revenue officer. El-Dardiry comes to Transfix from a 19-year stint at Intel Corporation, where most recently he managed cloud computing, memory and storage enterprise sales in the Americas, Asia and global industry […]
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 […]
