TruckerCloud follows Rule 1 investment with instant carrier onboarding functionality

TruckerCloud has launched its Instant Carrier Onboarding feature to support its real-time visibility software platform.

Through its new onboarding service, users can link to FMCSA records to verify carriers are active and then add them to their networks knowing that TruckerCloud’s API integrations with ELD providers will be able to track that carrier’s location.

Carriers can now share their location data via their ELD, eliminating the need to use a phone application or to create a custom...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckercloud-follows-rule-1-investment-with-instant-carrier-onboarding-functionality

FourKites touts ocean ETAs 20%-40% more accurate than those from carriers

FourKites upgrades ocean visibility with enhancements to dynamic eta

It’s chaos at the ports right now. Ocean shipping is experiencing unprecedented delays that are costing shippers thousands of dollars per container per day and could run deep into 2023. Container shipping, dry bulk, liquefied natural gas — it doesn’t matter how or what companies are shipping because rates are spiking across the board.

With no end to the messy situation in sight, knowing when delays will happen becomes more important than ever for carriers. With that in mind, supply chain...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fourkites-touts-ocean-etas-20-40-more-accurate-than-those-from-carriers

project44 initiates aggressive global expansion amid COVID, supply chain crisis

Project44, a leading real-time transportation visibility provider, is meeting the challenge of COVID-19 and the supply chain crisis head-on, with an ambitious plan to grow aggressively in multiple global regions, including Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Recent acquisitions by project44, conversations with company executives, key new hires and documents obtained by FreightWaves tell the story of the visibility startup’s evolving approach to international expansion.

Adam Compain, senior vice...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/project44-initiates-aggressive-global-expansion-amid-covid-supply-chain-crisis

Industry leaders chart future of supply chain visibility

At FourKites Visibility 2021, supply chain leaders gather to chart the future of visibility

Shopping has never been easier for the consumer. They can have products delivered within a few hours, the same day, the next day or in two days. They can shop in person, online and through marketplaces. They can pick up products in-store or have them delivered to their doorsteps.

All of this is fantastic for consumers, but it puts huge pressure on supply chains to meet those flexible expectations. Not only are supply chain professionals contending with the tall task of personalizing the delivery...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/industry-leaders-chart-future-of-supply-chain-visibility

Project44 acquires last-mile tech company Convey for $255M

On Tuesday, real-time global supply chain visibility provider project44 announced its acquisition of last-mile technology company Convey in a deal valued at $255 million.

With a plan to provide the supply chain community with powerful and actionable real-time data, project44 will utilize this acquisition, along with its previous purchases of vessel visibility company Ocean Insights and supply chain planning software company ClearMetal, to provide customers with the ability to leverage last-mile...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/project44-acquires-last-mile-tech-company-convey-for-255m

Project44, Tive make NASCAR debut Sunday

As the pace car pulls into pit road and the chief starter waves their green flags this Sunday, NASCAR’s nationwide viewers will watch James Davison take off in the newly sponsored No. 15 vehicle highlighting real-time visibility provider project44 and location tracking company Tive.

The newly wrapped Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, driven for Rick Ware Racing and sponsored by BYRD Racing, will showcase the two FreighTech companies...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/project44-tive-make-nascar-debut-sunday

Locus optimizing field agent deployment with ServiceNow

Automation and supply chain visibility often are focused on the routing of consumer goods as they travel thousands of miles via various modes of transportation.

Locus, a supply chain visibility and routing solution, announced Tuesday it is offering these same services to optimize the deployment of field service agents in its integration with the ServiceNow Field Service Management solution.

While on the surface the two might seem like an unlikely pair, Locus founder and CEO Nishith Rastogi...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/locus-optimizing-field-agent-deployment-with-servicenow

Shifl partners with Terminal49 to leverage drayage data expertise

Shifl, an international freight forwarder, announced Monday it has partnered with Terminal49, a shipment- and container-tracking platform, to give customers accurate, real-time visibility that synchronizes all parties involved with international shipping.

“The partnership with Terminal49 has been amazing,” said Shabsie Levy, the founder and CEO of Shifl, in an interview with FreightWaves. “We are furthering our goal of creating visibility tools for our customers and being able to manipulate and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shifl-partners-with-terminal49-to-leverage-drayage-data-expertise

Overhaul raises $35M to enhance visibility for shippers, carriers

Overhaul, a real-time visibility and risk management platform, announced Tuesday it has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from past investor Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures, the venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group. Since 2016, the company has raised a total of $55 million.

The company was recently recognized on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Real-Time Transportation Visibility Platforms as a leading niche player, a solution that is often the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/overhaul-raises-35m-to-enhance-visibility-for-shippers-carriers