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Convoy’s Goodale: shippers will demand responsive digital solutions as volatility becomes the norm

On Wednesday morning, May 6,Convoy co-founder and chief technology officer Grant Goodale joined FreightWaves chief strategy officer JT Engstrom for a conversation about the future of freight and supply chain innovation.

The conversation centered on how Convoy’s technology first drove automation in its own operations, which then allowed the company to deploy resources to make the entire supply chain more efficient. Broadly conceived, those initiatives seem to come in two large buckets. Strategic...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/convoys-goodale-shippers-will-demand-responsive-digital-solutions-as-volatility-becomes-the-norm

12 companies named ‘best of the best’ in Shipper of Choice Awards

Shipper of Choice-Transflo

While it is impressive to be recognized as a top performer among shippers in efficiency, availability or facilities, the best of the best do all three well.

Transflo sponsors the Shipper of Choice Awards for which nearly 400 companies were nominated by FreightWaves’ readers on social media. 

Nominees completed a survey addressing operational data, including dwell times, overages/shortages and damages, hours of operation, communication protocols, and facility attributes including the availability...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/12-companies-named-best-of-the-best-in-shipper-of-choice-awards

FreightWaves LIVE @HOME: Fuller Speed Ahead with guest Peter Rentschler, CEO of CarrierDirect Innovations in the Market

On the first afternoon of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves and Peter Rentschler, CEO of CarrierDirect, candidly discussed the innovation and strategies required for companies to remain agile in a pandemic-struck economy. 

“COVID-19 has put a spotlight on the businesses that are architected to move quickly and make fast decisions,” said Rentschler. “We had some clients that spent the first two weeks of the pandemic going to every Best Buy within a 100-mile radius buying...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-live-home-fuller-speed-ahead-with-guest-peter-rentschler-ceo-of-carrierdirect-innovations-in-the-market

FreightWaves LIVE@HOME Day 1: Good conversations and innovative ideas highlight virtual freight conference

FreightWaves LIVE

Under pressure from COVID-19, in-person conferences across the country have been cancelled or postponed, and that includes many in the freight industry. But, the show must go on, they say, so FreightWaves plowed ahead with its FreightWaves LIVE event, originally scheduled for this week in Atlanta. No longer an in-person event, the event was rebranded FreightWaves LIVE@HOME, which kicked off today.

The virtual event features a full three days of great presentations, conversations and company...

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FreightWaves SONAR 6.0 debuts at FreightWaves LIVE @HOME

SONAR Lane Signal

“FreightWaves is launching SONAR 6.0, with new features that make the SONAR data platform even easier to use and will help transportation companies make data-driven decisions at all levels of their organizations,” said Craig Fuller, FreightWaves founder and CEO. “SONAR 6.0 features greater accessibility for its subscribers, as well as single-focus apps for simplicity, better integration with users’ systems and adaptability for users’ brand equity.”

Fuller continued, “I’m very pleased to announce...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/freightwaves-sonar-6-debuts-at-freightwaves-live-home

Industry experience, continual innovation drive J.B. Hunt 360 technology platform

In the midst of rolling out the third phase of an aggressive strategy to disrupt and innovate efficiency in the supply chain through its digital freight matching platform, J.B. Hunt 360, Shelley Simpson said the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced the company to pivot and adapt to its customers’, carriers’ and employees’ changing needs during these unprecedented times. 

“It’s made us really evaluate what our priorities are in our organization. We are even more focused on how we help our people, our...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/industry-experience-continual-innovation-drive-jb-hunt-360-technology-platform

Slowly but surely, technology laggards are getting up to speed: Echo Global’s Waggoner

Getting companies further down the supply chain to adapt new technology has always been a challenge, according to Doug Waggoner, the CEO of Echo Global Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO).

But in an interview with FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller at FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, the online event that is bringing together supply chain leaders in virtual settings, Waggoner said it was starting to get a little easier.

Waggoner was asked by Fuller what things might have occurred in the freight industry had...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/slowly-but-surely-technology-laggards-are-getting-up-to-speed-echo-globals-waggoner

FreightWaves LIVE @HOME: Obama White House official says COVID-19 response depends on logistics sector

Ron Klain talking from home on video conference about pandemic.

Logistics companies and professionals are the linchpin of the public health effort to defeat the coronavirus, but patchwork of on-again, off-again lockdowns and social distancing rules around the country will make their job even more difficult than today.

That’s the conclusion of Ron Klain, executive vice president and general counsel at Revolution, a Washington, D.C.-based technology-oriented investment firm, and former chief of staff to then-Vice President Joe Biden, based on his experience as...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-live-home-obama-white-house-official-says-covid-19-response-depends-on-logistics-sector

Today’s Pickup: Another ELD provider shuts down

ELD

Good day,

When the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate went into effect, there were more than 250 companies that self-registered their devices for compliance. Most expected that number to shrink over time, and it has. The latest company to abandon its ELD program is Continental.

The company announced it has stopped sales of its Roadlog product line. It will continue to support current users until Aug. 14, 2020, the company said, and provide transition assistance to other providers.

“Unfortunate...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/todays-pickup-another-eld-provider-shuts-down

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