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Estes Express CEO invests in Cargo Chief, joins board

28 October 2021

Digital freight-matching companyCargo Chief said Thursday that Rob W. Estes Jr., president and CEO of LTL carrier Estes Express Lines, has invested in Cargo Chief and has joined the board of directors of the Millbrae, California-based company. The amount of Estes’ investment was not disclosed.

Estes’ company, based in Richmond, Virginia, is the nation’s fifth-largest LTL carrier and North America’s largest privately held LTL operator. The family-owned trucker was founded in 1931 by Estes’...

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Last mile is the poster child for retail’s shift

23 February 2021

Businesses have moved on from “let’s just get through 2020” and must now focus on delivering value through their last-mile delivery operations in a new world, said Chris Kina, analyst with consultancy Gartner.

“This is an undeniably transformational shift in retail commerce and the last-mile evolution is the poster child for that movement,” he wrote in a recent blog entry. “Last-mile practitioners need to accept and act on that transformational reality.”

Kina noted the increase in parcel volumes...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/last-mile-is-the-poster-child-for-retails-shift

The Daily Dash: Changing peak season; XPO looks to downsize

6 October 2020

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, Amazon is altering the industry’s perspective of peak freight season. Plus, Women in Trucking named the top employers for women and XPO could be looking to downsize.

Peak season is earlier than ever

How long is peak shipping season? According to one analyst, the way peak is defined is changing, and it’s all thanks to Amazon.

Mark Solomon explains how Prime Day is playing a role: Amazon ‘creating the...

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Commentary: How Cargomatic started the digital brokerage boom

5 October 2020

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

When Uber launched in 2010, it didn’t take a logistics genius to wonder how the technology and business processes the company brought to market for people was going to reshape the trucking industry. Fast-forward to 2020 and Uber for X is a movement that has already come and gone.

While it may seem that Uber Freight and Convoy have cornered the digital freight...

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