Brett Suma

Shippers take note: Brokers lead the FreightTech charge

Legacy trucking companies, once at the forefront of innovation, have fallen behind in the FreightTech arms race in recent years. Freight brokerages are now the trailblazers.

By implementing the latest visibility technologies, brokerages like Loadsmith are now confidently competing with the largest asset-based carriers.

“Digital freight matching and real-time rating and visibility — the greatest advancements in [freight] technology over the last five years — have not been developed by your...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shippers-take-note-brokers-lead-the-freighttech-charge

Loadsmith’s capacity as a service to help launch autonomous future

While the industry takes steps toward autonomous trucking, Loadsmith is taking giant leaps.

With its sights set on becoming the first fully autonomous trucking company, Loadsmith is leaning further into capacity as a service to bolster its autonomous future.

The third-party logistics platform is taking its largest step yet, recently selecting Mastery Logistics’ MasterMind TMS to power its capacity-as-a-service platform. CEO Brett Suma said the partnership will be integral in equipping Loadsmith...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loadsmiths-capacity-as-a-service-to-help-launch-autonomous-future

Loadsmith aims to fully automate middle mile by 2024

There’s little doubt that autonomy is the future of trucking, but when and in what capacity has been up for debate. Some say it’s decades away while others estimate sooner. But as the industry talks, Loadsmith has plotted a course.

The third-party logistics capacity-as-a-service platform has ambitious plans to fully automate trucking’s middle mile by 2024. CEO Brett Suma told FreightWaves he’s optimistic that’s when the regulatory environment will catch up with the technology, giving Loadsmith...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loadsmith-aims-to-fully-automate-middle-mile-by-2024