Bringg, Onfleet, FarEye, Veho, AxleHire and a sea of other delivery management platforms are shaking up the last mile.
But FreightTech startup Warp, which emerged from stealth in February 2022 and is led by two AxleHire veterans, wants to ensure supply chains don’t cut out the middleman.
The Los Angeles-based middle-mile firm on Tuesday rolled out DirectFresh, a new platform offering aimed at perishable shippers. Now live in all major U.S. and Canadian metros and select areas in Mexico, the...
Jake McPaul, an industry logistics expert who helped guide Misfits Market through rapid growth during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has joinedWarp as head of refrigerated operations and product in the middle-mile tech company’s new Fresh Freight division.
The company made the announcement Thursday.
McPaul was the first director of logistics for Misfits Market from July 2019 through May 2021, coinciding with the first year-plus of shutdowns from COVID and the rapid explosion of that firm’s...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/warp-launches-temp-controlled-division-names-jake-mcpaul-to-lead
PHILADELPHIA — Gatik has received a lot of attention for its rapidly advancing middle-mile autonomous solution. It has signed on major partners such as Walmart, Georgia-Pacific, KBX Logistics and Pitney Bowes.
But the success of the company, like so many others, lies behind the scenes with the work and partnerships it has built with various states and city governments.
Those relationships paid off recently when Kansas and Oklahoma became the 24th and 25th states to give approval for autonomous...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/partnerships-behind-the-scenes-policy-work-key-to-gatiks-success
Autonomous middle-mile technology company Gatik will work with industry powerhouse Cummins to integrate Gatik’s technology with Cummins’ drive-by-wire solution.
The combined solution will be utilized on Isuzu Class 6 FTR model box trucks with the Cummins B6.7 engine. Gatik has been using the Isuzu model in its fleet, most recently adding the trucks to a pilot in Texas. In that effort, Gatik has partnered with KBX Logistics to haul product from Georgia-Pacific facilities in the area to 34 local...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cummins-to-use-gatik-autonomous-tech-in-isuzu-trucks
Just five days after Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law a bill approving driverless vehicles, Gatik and Walmart announced on Thursday plans to deploy autonomous trucks in the state.
Kelly signed Senate Bill 313 into law last Friday. It had passed the Kansas House on a 75-44 vote and the Senate 23-17. The law was backed by both Gatik and Walmart (NYSE: WMT). Kansas is the 25th state to pass legislation that enables fully autonomous vehicles to operate on public roads.
The companies did not...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gatik-walmart-to-begin-autonomous-truck-pilot-in-kansas
Autonomous trucks continue to be “three to four years” away, but in Northwest Arkansas, they are the here and now.
Gatik, the autonomous vehicle technology company, has been running box trucks without a human in the passenger seat since August in a pilot run in cooperation with Walmart. On Tuesday, Gatik founder and CEO Gautam Narang touted the accomplishments of the firm so far to an engaged audience at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain conference at the Rogers Convention Center in Rogers,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gatik-details-walmart-autonomous-truck-pilot
This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Automating the middle mile for B2B logistics and the importance of industry partnerships.
DETAILS: The middle mile isn’t the sexiest part of the supply chain. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t rife with innovation — and Gatik is at the forefront. The company’s middle-mile vehicles operate without a driver —...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-gatik-leading-the-way-in-middle-mile-automation
Middle-mile technology company Warp is joining the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab (UFL), the company announced Wednesday.
Warp is the first company focused on the middle mile joining UFL, which is a public-private partnership housed at the UW’s Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Center. Warp co-founder and CEO Daniel Sokolovsky is familiar with the work of UFL, having served as CEO of AxleHire during a Seattle last-mile delivery pilot conducted by UFL in 2021.
“UFL is doing...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/middle-mile-tech-company-warp-joins-urban-freight-lab
FedEx Express will test an autonomous air cargo aircraft in 2023, the company said Wednesday. Elroy Air, which has partnered with FedEx since January 2020, will supply the drone.
“FedEx was built on innovation and we are always looking toward new technologies to help enhance the logistics industry through improved safety, efficiency and customer service,” said Joe Stephens, senior vice president of global planning, engineering and technology at FedEx Express. “We look forward to continued...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-express-to-test-autonomous-aircraft
Daniel Sokolovsky has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for being wherever the action is in the world of delivery. In 2013, around the time of the rise of food delivery platforms like Uber Eats and DoorDash, Sokolovsky was heading up his own food delivery business, Berkeley Delivers, near his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley.
Then, in 2015, he founded AxleHire, a company that would soon go toe-to-toe with one of delivery’s most influential and massive players. The company’s...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/axlehire-founder-sets-sights-on-ltl-with-new-company-seed-funding