In early April, technology platform Curri secured a $6 million Series A funding round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures with participation from existing backer Initialized Capital and new investor Rainfall Ventures. The firm, which provides on-demand delivery of construction…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has waived the Jones Act to allow a foreign shipping company to move domestic fuel supplies to help shore up fuel supplies on the U.S. East Coast. “In the interest of national defense,…
Load opportunities are abundant but drivers remain in short supply, prompting a few more carriers to announce pay enhancements. Frozen Food Express, the nation’s largest temperature-controlled less-than-truckload carrier, announced its biggest pay increase in company history. Team drivers can now…
Triple-digit heat will hit truckers across the Southwest over the next couple of days. From the Central Valley of California to southern Arizona, temperatures will soar into the 90s to above 100 degrees in many spots Thursday and Friday. This…
Forty years hardly makes a startup, but that’s exactly what Optimal Dynamics is. The New York-based company is seeking to flip the script on what artificial intelligence can do in a logistics environment, and it is starting with technology that…
The Daily Dash is a quick look at what’s happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, we highlight the impact of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown on diesel supplies, different approaches to reducing driver fatigue and more. The High Five…
Part of the Biden administration’s new strategy on allocating COVID-19 vaccines targets rural communities, which have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. In line with that goal as well as the imperative to speed vaccines to remote…
The Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday it is resuming full operations but may take several days to get back to normal. The restart began at 5 p.m. Wednesday, it said, a little more than five full days after the company first…
DrivrzXchange, an online car marketplace platform, has reached an agreement with ACERTUS to facilitate the pickup and delivery of all cars bought and sold on DrivrzXchange. Under the agreement, ACERTUS will pick up vehicles acquired or sold on DrivrzXchange and…
A lot of the data outlined in FreightWaves’ SONAR platform is real time or historical, but what about when it comes to looking forward? What should you be using to make predictions instead of just analyze what happened in the…
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