dan lewis

Eliminating empty miles best way to effect immediate climate change

Those empty miles a truck drives between loads: Inevitable waste of fuel or fodder for the emissions-minded disruptor?

Digital freight network Convoy’s entire business model hinges on eliminating that waste by linking networks through data science and machine learning. Just last week, Convoy announced its campaign #NoEmptyMiles, seeking to scale its network and find additional efficiencies for carriers, including a long tail of smaller fleets. Carriers that join the Convoy network will optimize...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/eliminating-empty-miles-best-way-to-effect-immediate-climate-change

Convoy unlocks freight network for 3rd-party brokers

Digital freight network Convoy announced on Thursday it has added a program to its suite of tools called Convoy for Brokers, enabling freight brokers to leverage its existing carrier network to cover their loads.

“Convoy’s mission is to transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste. The only way to achieve that mission is by partnering with other freight companies and sharing the benefits of a digital freight network,” said Dan Lewis, Convoy co-founder and CEO.

“With today’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-unlocks-freight-network-for-3rd-party-brokers

Convoy’s F3 message is clear: #NoEmptyMiles

This week at FreightWaves’ F3 Virtual Experience, Convoy is promoting the hashtag #NoEmptyMiles. While the reduction of empty miles is a common topic of conversation for Convoy, Head of Sustainability Jennifer Wong doesn’t feel like the message is ever emphasized enough. 

“It’s such a win-win-win opportunity,” said Wong. “You’re not only reducing empty miles to reduce carbon emission waste, but you can also reduce wasted dollars. You reduce wasted time and energy that truck drivers have today in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoys-f3-message-is-clear-noemptymiles

Having navigated 2020, Convoy positions itself for the future

Convoy CEO Dan Lewis sits down with FreightWaves

As predictions of freight doom descended on the industry as COVID-19 quickly spread across the U.S., Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy, saw something others didn’t.

“I think the freight industry was able to adapt to that because, what people outside freight don’t realize is, freight is very volatile [anyway],” he told FreightWaves in a recent interview.

Even Lewis acknowledged that there was plenty of uncertainty, and Convoy saw freight patterns change as more medical and COVID-related...

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Convoy CEO: Things I learned at warehouses and truck stops

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of trucking services firm Convoy, spent time at truck stops, warehouses and other places, talking with logistics professionals to figure out why supply chains “weren’t reaching their full potential.”

“When Convoy was founded, there was a lot of talk about how technology was going to revolutionize the industry,” Lewis said during the town hall series at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) 2020 EDGE Supply Chain Virtual Conference and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-ceo-things-i-learned-at-warehouses-and-truck-stops

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