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Truckstop announced Thursday evening that CEO Kendra Tucker is leaving the company.

The first-ever Freight Fraud Awareness Day, taking place on Tuesday, aims to unite the supply chain community in tackling schemes like double brokering and cargo theft, which have seen a 400% rise since 2022.

Truckstop.com’s Brent Hutto discusses the company’s zero-tolerance policy toward fraud and its recent work with the FBI.

This week, we showcase an innovative way to attack Japan’s logistics labor-shortage problems; Pepsi makes a new partnership in battery technology; and Walmart wins an award for its investment in technology.

This week: Verified Carrier discusses its unique way of vetting carriers, Vecna Robotics closes its Series C, Truckstop vets industry pets and Nvidia has a new offering for industry tech providers.

This week, training software for the DOD is serving the freight community; CargoSense closes its Series A; a trucking company adds autonomous offerings; and Truckstop.com hires a new CFO.

This week, FreightVana offers a Visa card to its carrier network, SPS Commerce makes an acquisition and we review Symbotic’s Q1 results in the robotics space.

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller spoke to Truckstop CEO Kendra Tucker during FreightWaves’ Small Fleet & Owner-Operator Summit about managing volatility in the trucking market and curbing double brokering and fraud on load boards.

The final panel at the TIA annual meeting echoed a theme of the whole meeting: Double brokering and fraud are surging.

Logistics company Truckstop.com has verified it is laying off an unspecified amount of workers.

Truckers often make business decisions without the data needed to justify those decisions. Truckstop.com is trying to make more data available to owner-operators.

Transflo, a supply chain platform with multiple capabilities, is bringing in two veteran executives to steer the company forward, with its current CEO moving up into the chairman’s position.

Truckstop’s acquisition of RMIS “puts us in this position to be an even better matchmaker between the carrier and the broker,” Tucker said.

The load board at Truckstop.com remains the core business but integrating it with other operations is seen as providing opportunity.

Kendra Tucker joined Truckstop.com as the chief revenue officer in 2020 and became chief operating officer last September.

FreightTech companies demonstrated products and services designed to improve efficiency in supply chains.

This AskWaves looks at what separates truck dispatchers from truck brokers.

Rapidly changing shipping patterns and cost structures have made historical comparisons much more challenging for the freight market.

The truckload spot market appears to have hit another peak, but quickly rising fuel costs make this appear much larger than it is.

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller interviews Kendra Tucker on her move into the trucking industry last year when she joined Truckstop.com.

Transportation rates continue to climb while service is at an all-time low. Shippers will have to be aggressive in devising new strategies to keep costs under control.

Trent Broberg, the former COO of Truckstop.com, has been named CEO of ACERTUS, a technology-focused automotive logistics firm.

Load board adds more enterprise-level automation to its compliance offering.

The Idaho-based online load board celebrates its second consecutive year as a FreightTech finalist.

Spot rates continued to increase after the holiday period ended even as capacity returned to the market according to the Outbound Tender Reject Index.

Air cargo carrier names Yulia Celetaria health care director and forms vaccine task force.

Industry speakers, technology demos and venture capitalists took center stage last week for FreightWaves’ FreightTech Venture Summit and LIVE @HOME events. Now you can catch sessions you may have missed or rewatch those that most interested you with a special rebroadcast of the events beginning Tuesday.

Carriers, logistics businesses and technology providers make the cut in 2020.

Transportation costs are hitting record levels as companies struggle to grab capacity amidst an unusually early peak season.

Shippers are willing to pay more to put freight on the rail just to get it moving out of Los Angeles.

Hurricane Laura hit at a time when trucking capacity is unusually tight, a fact that may hinder the recovery efforts.

Carriers urged to verify security safeguards from suppliers before installing devices.

FreightWaves is hosting the 3PL Summit on July 21, a virtual event that will include technology demonstrations, hot debates and visionary speakers from across the 3PL spectrum.

Schneider has continued its recent technology innovations with FreightPower, an offering that unlocks more capacity for its shipping partners.

In some states, companies are now allowed to bring their employees back into the building. That process may end up being far more complex than anticipated.

These two industry leaders discuss the partnership with FreightWaves, cyber security malware, and more from the virtual event of the year.

FreightWaves LIVE @HOME kicked off its three-day virtual event with keynote addresses from J.B. Hunt’s Shelley Simpson, Revolution’s Ron Klain, and Echo Global Logistic’s Doug Waggoner among many others.

Online load board Truckstop.com laid to rest once again the rumor that it has aspirations to become a brokerage, but it will continue to build out features connected to Book It Now, a mobile app solution that allows brokers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to add instant load board functionality to their businesses. Truckstop’s tech innovations […]

Chief marketing officer, service center manager and executive vice president are named.

Truckstop.com, the leading Platform-as-a-Service provider for the trucking industry and FreightWaves, the leading provider of trucking news and analytics, are partnering to provide resources to transportation providers responding to relief projects and supply chain distributions.

Offers include one-month free Truckstop.com and FreightWaves SONAR

Truckstop.com, the largest digital freight marketplace in North America, and FreightWaves, the leading provider of data and analysis to the logistics markets, have partnered to provide spot trucking rate market visibility to SONAR subscribers.

FreightWaves SONAR clients will have access to Truckstop.com rates

Digital freight matching has turned a corner in the marketplace.

Today, Kevin and Andrew have two special guests: Bill Vitti, chief commercial officer of Truckstop, explains the recently announced partnership with Knight-Swift; then Peter Rentschler from Carrier Direct discusses his takeaways from last week’s Stifel Conference in Miami. Lastly, we discuss the triumphant return of flip phones and why Virgin Galactic stock has tripled since […]

Knight-Swift will integrate Truckstop.com’s Book It Now digital freight offering into its logistics operation, and provide access to Truckstop.com’s load board for its owner-operator and carrier partners.

Freight load board is back in service after ransomware, which was more frequent in 2019.

Truckstop.com reported that the company is making progress in bringing operations back online.

FreightWaves FreightCasts Special Report: The TruckStop.com and SaferWatch outage plus the rise and fall of FedEx. With TruckStop.com and SaferWatch down for days before the holidays, both carriers and brokers are in the dark. Plus, is FedEx on borrowed time? After “horrific” earnings and Amazon’s ascendance, pundits speculate that the parcel powerhouse may be acquired. […]

One of the leading load boards shuttered since Friday forcing customers to find workarounds.

Update: Major load board remains out of service since last Friday with no update as to when it will be online.

Truckstop.com’s Book It Now feature is available through Redwood Logistics’ LoadRunner TMS, giving users of both services more options and a streamlined booking process.

Truckstop.com pioneered digital innovation in logistics with the first online platform for load boards.

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller sits down with Brent Hutto, the Chief Relationship Officer at truckstop.com. The interview was filmed during the Truckload Live Summit in Chattanooga, TN on December 5, 2019.

Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto explains the importance of embracing the freight industry’s digital evolution.

Truckstop.com CEO dives into Book It Now and how the company plans to reduce friction between brokers and carriers.

“Truck driving is a thankless job. NEXT builds tools for these people so they can love their job and love their life,” said John Papageorgiou, senior product manager.

On today’s episode, Dooner and Chad have an update on the Idaho hemp truckers and news on the USDA’s new ruling, Uber Freight crosses the border, and we find out who made the Dean’s List — plus mad hatters, snake owners, comment section rodeo and more on this All Saints Day edition of What the […]

Brokers will be able to offer core carriers guaranteed freight and rates at the click of a button.

The digitization of the supply chain industry has been all the buzz in recent years. From lumpers on the freight docks in Erie, Pennsylvania to the Patagonia-clad investors of Silicon Valley, everyone seems to be talking about technology “disrupting” logistics.

As with other industries. the transportation and logistics industry is undergoing a digital transformation. The advent of the cloud and the adoption of new mobile and digital technologies has us in uncharted digital territory.

Charley Dehoney has written about the growth of digital freight brokerages and what they bring to the market and the industry.

BiTA’s Patrick Duffy informs committee of blockchain approaching critical mass

Truckers, fleet managers, and brokers face any number of regulatory tasks, load optimization and business decisions every single day. Add to that the decision on which technology, software or service best helps manage those tasks, and the chore becomes overwhelming. But one goal of Transparency 19 was to help all stakeholders discern what is the […]

Whether truck location data is generated from electronic logging devices (ELDs) or proprietary tracking or routing software, there’s one location – the loading dock – where more supply chain visibility is desperately needed, according to freight industry experts. “Anyone can learn how to drive a truck; the hardest part for drivers is navigating through all […]

The afternoon block of freight technology demonstrations at Transparency19 in Atlanta May 6 brought home the value of information technology in optimizing the basic blocking-and-tackle functions that could make or save money for many players. Each presenter had just seven minutes to show their offerings as part of the “Rapid Fire Demos” on the first […]

Broberg wants to drive operational excellence throughout the company as it accelerates product development.

Inexpensive cloud-based technology is leveling the playing field between small, mid-sized, and large 3PLs.

Insurgent digital brokerage apps are increasing their share of downloads while load boards are largely stagnant.

KeepTruckin has further expanded the utility of its fleet management platform with a new App Marketplace for customers to access solutions that easily integrate with KeepTruckin’s current platforms.

Wall Street is in a panic over fears that the truckload sector has peaked. Wall Street is wrong. We break down the reasons using data from SONAR.

Increased visibility has been the vision since the idea for Truckstop.com first emerged way back in 1995.