On this week’s episode of Taking the Hire Road, Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by Sam Bloomquist, the organization’s chief operating officer and CPO.
Former FBI negotiator Chris Voss tells listeners at the F3: Future of Freight Festival about using hostage negotiation tactics in business deals.
On Thursday FreightWaves presented the FreightTech 25 awards, which were chosen independently by a panel of CEOs, industry leaders, academics and investors who scored the companies. Chattanooga, Tennessee-based accounting and auditing firm HHM administered the vote. The awards recognize the most innovative and disruptive companies in the freight technology sector.
A fireside chat with Emerge CEO Andrew Leto discussed leadership, planning and resilience at FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival.
FreightWise has acquired Kuebix from Trimble with the aim of creating one of the top transportation management system platforms in the country.
XPO Executive Chairman Brad Jacobs participated in a town hall on Day 2 of the F3: Future of Freight Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Truck Sail has set out to help trucking companies do just that by installing aerodynamic, drag-reducing devices on their trucks. This not only saves fuel costs, but also extends the working life of trucks and trailers through energy demand.
A fireside chat about Convoy’s demise and impact helped kick off FreightWaves’ three-day F3: Future of Freight Festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In this edition: The rise of bankruptcy in brokerages, the first day of F3 and pilots find new homes.
Shippers have rebounded in Q4 2023 to once again be the most positive segment. Carriers and brokers have lost some of the steam that led to relative optimism in Q3.
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling denying a driver’s request to allow him to operate a smaller vehicle with a softer suspension.
This week in Borderlands: Three Texas seaports are awarded a combined $37 million in federal upgrade grants; Arcadia Cold Storage opens a Phoenix-area facility; an investment firm acquires California-based Source Logistics; and Fictiv opens a facility in Monterrey.
Jeremy Reymer, founder of DriverReach, is joined by industry friend and ally Yvonne Glover, director of operations at Tyler Technologies, an organization that builds solutions aimed at helping the public sector operate more efficiently.
The Convoy saga has taken another turn as venture-backed freight forwarder Flexport announced Wednesday that it has acquired Convoy’s technology stack for an undisclosed sum. This comes after Convoy, which was valued at $3.8 billion from its final funding round 18 months ago, shuttered operations on Oct. 19.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has created a tip sheet and reporting guide to root out fraudulent carriers in the trucking industry.
Last-mile delivery is complicated. Technology can make it more efficient, but the key is successfully integrating multiple systems.
After the Great Shopping Spree of 2021, tens of thousands of truck companies will have to shut down to restabilize the industry.
Supply chain technology provider Trimble posted impressive Q3 results but said transportation revenue could slow down in the next quarter.
Greenscreens.ai’s Matthew Silver said with Capacity On Tap, “brokers get all their capacity sources in a single pane of glass without having to reenter data.”
This week in Borderlands: The U.S. mulls terminating a tomato trade agreement with Mexico; Walmart opens a fulfillment center near Dallas; Saddle Creek Logistics is opening a distribution center in Arizona; and layoffs hit GulfMark Energy’s operations in Texas.
