Phoenix-based freight brokerage FreightVana announced plans Thursday morning to purchase more than 1,000 53-foot dry van trailers in 2022 and expand its power-only brokerage offering, FreightVana x, nationwide.
FreightVana’s founding team is stacked with veterans from Knight-Swift Logistics who cited their deep asset-backed “pedigree” as the reason why FreightVana would be able to efficiently acquire, stage, utilize and maintain so many trailers. Co-CEOs Shannon Breen and John Gamero, Chief...
Digital freight network introduces novel product when shippers need it
Wednesday morning Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy announced that it has begun allowing shippers to designate any tendered truckload shipment — secondary, spot, etc. — as “drop-and-hook” and use Convoy Go’s network of power-only carriers and 3,000 trailers to move their goods.
Convoy’s drop-and-hook program, Convoy Go, began with early pilots in 2017. Two years later, Convoy Go scaled nationally with enterprise...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-any-load-can-be-drop-and-hook
First launched as a trial program in 2017 and expanded nationally in 2019, Convoy Go is growing yet again. The digital freight network’s drop-and-hook program is adding three significant enhancements the company believes will provide more value for shippers and carriers while reducing costs and empty miles and improving asset utilization.
“Supply chain teams prefer drop for its speed and simplicity, but traditional drop programs are rigid and don’t respond well to market volatility,” said Ziad...
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