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FreightTech 25: Emerge enhances its freight logistics platform

Emerge CEO

Freight logistics platform Emerge is moving up the ranks. Emerge took the No. 14 spot in the FreightWaves FreightTech 25 awards, up from No. 18 last year.

“It’s an honor to be named to the FreightTech list for the second year in a row,” said Emerge CEO Michael Leto, who leads the company alongside his brother Andrew, the founder. 

“To be listed with such amazing organizations that are paving the way to positive change within our industry is a major accomplishment,” Michael added.

Emerge’s freight...

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White Paper: How to Manage Through FTL Market Transitions

In this white paper, the impact of market transition periods on contracts, rates and service levels are revealed. The paper takes a deep dive into the inefficiencies with the traditional RFP process and the ways in which carriers/shippers manage through these periods. Learn what shippers and carriers can do to adapt at the speed required to keep up with today’s market while softening the impact of market volatility.

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Emerge unveils Book It Now feature for digital marketplace

Emerge digital freight marketplace

Digital freight marketplace Emerge has unveiled immediate tender acceptance functionality to its marketplace, allowing carriers to immediately accept loads at a preset rate.

Book It Now eliminates the back-and-forth common in tender negotiations, providing the carrier with a streamlined process of accepting the freight it wants at the rate it wants. Immediate access to the rate confirmation and load details is given to the carrier, Emerge said.

“This feature is one of the major steps in Emerge’s...

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Commentary: How COVID took logistics tech from 2020 to 2050

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

As recently as February, many companies considered work-from-home arrangements for their employees unrealistic and unlikely to happen. They recognized that they lacked the necessary IT infrastructure and other systems but had little reason to pursue making remote work possible. When our society shut down earlier this year, not only were a lot of companies faced...

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Emerge’s volumes inch closer to levels originally projected

Digital freight marketplace Emerge is seeing volumes inch closer to levels originally projected for 2020. Despite the economic ups and downs that truckload freight has experienced throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the freight-tech start-up is on track to match this year’s expected budget of $100 million, according to Emerge Co-Founder, Andrew Leto.

Leto and FreightWaves Director of Freight Intelligence Zach Strickland discussed how Emerge’s marketplace enables shippers to find trucks more...

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How to leverage freight-tech as capacity tightens (with video)

Zach Strickland, director of freight market intelligence at FreightWaves, asked Emerge co-founder Andrew Leto the dominant question in most industry executives’ minds: is the market tightening and who holds the pricing power right now – shippers or carriers? 

Emerge, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a digital freight marketplace where shippers and carriers can access direct capacity. Over 500 shippers are active in this marketplace, ranging from retailers to manufacturers. While Leto said the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-to-leverage-freight-tech-as-capacity-tightens-with-video

Emerge founder ‘optimistic’ for freight recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic completely flipped the script on what was looking to be a solid year for freight markets. The economic standstill has suffocated many truckload sectors, but Emerge founder Andrew Leto believes that the worst may soon be behind us if the nation gets the go-ahead to jump back into rush-hour traffic.

On this episode of Freight.Tech Update presented by Emerge, FreightWaves market expert and analyst Zach Strickland discusses with Leto the benefits of opening the economy sooner...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/emerge-founder-optimistic-for-freight-recovery

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