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Bosch’s RevX rolls up available spot loads

22 March 2024

If freight brokers weren’t so preoccupied with celebrating competitor missteps, one of them might have beaten Robert Bosch to RevX — a spot load aggregation tool that also flags double brokering.

The cloud-based RevX is the second product from the German auto supplier’s global Logistics Operating System (L.OS), aimed at simplifying technology and operational processes in transportation and logistics. L.OS launched in December with a goal of generating more than $540 million in freight-related...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/boschs-revx-rolls-up-available-spot-loads

What a centralized tech stack can do for your final-mile shipping

5 October 2022

When it comes to the final mile, shipping businesses at scale have a low tolerance for inefficiency.

Traditionally, final-mile business processes have been scattered across multiple programs — one for load matching, another for interacting with customers and another for billing, to name a few. The fragmented nature of the industry has always required shippers to work with many regional carriers or owner-operators, all of which have their own procedures and technology limitations. Shippers end up...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-a-centralized-tech-stack-can-do-for-your-final-mile-shipping

Visibility tools play essential role for carriers in enduring weak market

23 June 2022

All carriers know that unfavorable market conditions aren’t a matter of if but when simply due to the natural ebbs and flows of the supply chain. That time may have unfortunately come for carriers.

Shippers have taken the upper hand in rate negotiation as slowing consumer spending and dwindling tender rejections are putting carriers into a corner. With higher operating costs due to inflation added to the mix, the pressure is coming from all angles.

Rocky times won’t last forever, though, and Truc...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/visibility-tools-play-essential-role-for-carriers-in-enduring-weak-market

BulkLoads TMS product for bulk commodities will be integrated into Barchart

14 August 2020

BulkLoads.com, the online load board to match truck capacity to haulers needing to move bulk commodities like grains, has signed a deal to have its transportation management system (TMS) built into a third-party platform.

Jared Finn, the operating partner with BulkLoads, said his service will be built into the commodity offering of Barchart, known as cmdtyViewPro. The third-party channel agreement is the first for BulkLoads.

By doing so, as Barchart said in its prepared statement announcing the...

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