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Truckers will run into areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

Companies want transparency from their partners, and end consumers want to know exactly when their packages are going to arrive.

FreightWaves partnered with real-time visibility provider Tive to determine how different industry players have adapted to the increased demand for visibility.

Two Arizona wildfires, each more than 60,000 acres in size, have shut down state and U.S. routes (forecast video included).

On this special episode of Put That Coffee Down during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Kevin Hill and Richie Daigle talk about the latest advances in FreightTech.

“Seventy percent of supply chain actors needed to execute on your supply chain are not within the four walls of your company.”

AT&T and Sony have teamed up for a new shipping label that activates sensors to track and monitor packages as they travel throughout the supply chain.

“I truly believe that every driver wants to be the best driver,” A&R exec says. “With this system we can help them do that.”

In a business model in which each company keeps its information to itself, data becomes siloed and consumers ultimately pay the price.

Shippers who have a deep understanding of their data, with access to comprehensive models, are the ones most likely to win in today’s shipping environment.

project44 and FourKites are the only ‘Leaders’ in the space.

Most innovative solutions are inspired by seemingly insurmountable problems. That is exactly how Evotrux was born

Needing to know where your freight is spawns incredibly competitive market

Smoke from wildfires may interfere with truckers in the Southwest as extreme drought and high winds persist (with forecast video).

“North Dakota must be prepared to respond to wildland fires,” said Gov. Doug Burgum after a grass fire closed part of Interstate 94.

Heavy rainfall and potential road closures will slow down truckers this week in the Gulf Coast states (with forecast video).

The Open Visibility Network partnership will combine FourKites’ and Tive’s data and capabilities to give mutual customers more supply chain visibility.

Fine art logistics provider Masterpiece International saw benefits of technological innovation firsthand when switching from human couriers to high-tech trackers during the coronavirus pandemic.

French company Shippeo, a supply chain visibility platform, has secured $32 million to continue product innovation and market expansion. The round, announced on Thursday, was co-led by Battery Ventures, along with existing investors NGP Capital, ETF Partners, Partech and Bpifrance Digital Venture. Founded in 2014, Shippeo joins a string of visibility platform companies that have […]

Getting people to think about visibility in a more dynamic and collaborative manner requires dismantling the idea that visibility refers only to a moving dot on a map.