freight tech

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: LPaaS as the future of FreightTech DETAILS: FreightWaves' President, George Abernathy, and Mark Yeager chat about the future of FreightTech and how Logistics Programming as a Service (LPaaS) can help...

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller welcomed Emerge founder Andrew Leto to the FreightWaves headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the two discussed Leto's rise as a freight-tech innovator and the success of his digital freight marketplace. Scottsdale, Arizona-based Emerge provides shippers and...

In the 1990s, German chemical company BASF had a slogan that speaks to what Platform Science is doing today: "At BASF, we don't make a lot of the products you buy, we make a lot of the products you buy better." It describes the operating approach of Platform Science, the No. 10 company on the 2019...

It's been another banner year for venture capital (VC) investment as investors sunk $11.7 billion in supply chain technology across 371 deals during the first three quarters of 2019, according to a report released by Pitchbook on Dec. 6. In 2018, VC investors funneled a record $19.3 billion into...

Emily Szink, News Director and Anchor at FreightWaves, sat down with Matt McLelland, the innovation strategist at Covenant Transport to talk about what it means to hold his position during a time when "innovation" is a ubiquitous buzzword in the freight industry.  "Innovation is doing new things,...

Technology that helps you get the most from your drivers, trucks and trailers was in the spotlight at the Rapid-Fire Demonstrations on Tuesday at FreightWaves LIVE Chicago. The seven-minute, live demonstrations allowed companies to showcase their products' capabilities. CloudTrade  David Cocks...

Technology to help with freight asset operations, sales and technology integration highlighted the third block of demonstrations at FreightWaves LIVE in Chicago on Nov. 12. WinMoreis a provider of bid and tender collaboration software to help freight forwarders and brokers win more — get it? —...

Why technology is being used to improve efficiency but not more readily deployed to improve safety is among the questions that the Trucking Alliance is pushing to answer. "We are not using technology as much to improve safety as we are using technology to improve efficiency," Lane Kidd, managing...

In a conversation at FreightWaves LIVE about the future of freight brokerage, at least half of the time was spent talking about a somewhat unlikely topic – people. The chief executive officers of Arrive Logistics and MoLo Solutions, Matt Pyatt and Andrew Silver, joined FreightWaves president George...

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Take an antiquated trillion dollar industry, machine learning and artificial intelligence, investors chasing higher yields and a few industrious solutions-oriented individuals and you get an emerging industry – high-growth freight tech. This was the conversation of the High-Growth CEO Panel...

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...

PitchBook and FreightWaves have crunched the numbers and confirmed what most of us already know – the FreightTech sector, defined loosely as software companies that aid in the movement of freight, is on a tear. FreightTech growth has an analog in the broader transportation services category...

FreightWaves Radio launched its sixth national show on Saturday, March 30 on SiriusXM's Road Dog Channel 146. Unlike other industry-specific radio shows that often have particular messaging or lobbying aims, FreightWaves Radio is an independent, data-driven look at what's really going on in...