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XPO takes layered approach to supply chain sustainability

Over the past few years, climate change has become a top priority for governments and citizens around the globe. This growing interest has helped push sustainability efforts into the spotlight for virtually all industries, including transportation and logistics. Companies across the industry will need to start considering their carbon footprint as new regulations come down and consumers start voting with their dollars.

Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/xpo-takes-layered-approach-to-supply-chain-sustainability

XPO outperforming the market with technology

With each passing year, more and more industries are switching to applications for convenience and time-saving purposes. The trucking industry is now starting to see more and more shifts toward the same type of technology, and one company is seeing success.

XPO Logistics has invested plenty of time, money and resources into creating a cutting-edge solution, XPO Connect. After reaching a milestone of 600,000 downloads, Drew Wilkerson, president of North American transportation for XPO Logistics,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/xpo-outperforming-the-market-with-technology

XPO Logistics’s tech offerings help shippers, carriers navigate peak season

The logistics industry is experiencing historically tight capacity and record-high rates in 2021. These trends are due, in large part, to the unrelenting driver shortage and pandemic-related shifts in consumer buying behaviors. Experts expect demand to continue to outpace supply through at least the first quarter of 2022. In addition to this larger trend, peak season is closing in quickly. This year’s holiday shopping rush is expected to take a heavy toll on shippers working to re-stock...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/xpo-logisticss-tech-offerings-help-shippers-carriers-navigate-peak-season

Drive XPO reaches 500,000 downloads, improves operating ratios

In XPO Logistics’ Q2 earnings call in July, CEO Brad Jacobs called out its technology investments for improving the company’s operating ratio.

“Our second-quarter adjusted operating ratio ex-real estate gains was our best operating ratio yet,” he said. “In truck brokerage, we’re continuing to outperform the industry. This is due in no small part to the rapid adoption of our XPO Connect platform by customers and carriers.”

The freight marketplace XPO Connect was built to give its shipper customers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drive-xpo-reaches-500000-downloads-improves-operating-ratios

XPO’s brokerage technology enables flexible solutions for shippers

The past year proved difficult for many, but it also shined a light on innovation. XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) is one of those companies that helped usher in a new era of FreightTech innovation, but it didn’t do it alone. Communication is a key to innovation, and that means transportation and logistics companies must interact and listen to their shipping partners.

“I’m constantly talking with our customers,” explained Jake Schnell, vice president of business development for XPO Logistics. “Right...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/xpos-brokerage-technology-enables-flexible-solutions-for-shippers

XPO Logistics: Creating continuity via tech offerings

A photograph of a truck passing through a highway rail grade crossing.

The rapid acceleration of e-commerce in 2020. Market volatility brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Tight capacity near U.S. ports. The complexities surrounding the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. These are some of the issues that could cause companies to crumble, but third-party logistics provider XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) has been able to navigate this volatile landscape in part because of the technological offerings that it provides to customers. 

That agility helped XPO Logistics...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/xpo-logistics-creating-continuity-via-tech-offerings

XPO’s Wilkerson: Look for 2020 shipping trends to stick around in 2021

XPO's Drew Wilkerson talks supply chain, 2021 trends

A capacity crunch, rising freight rates and inventory disruptions are just a few of the 2020 supply chain impacts from COVID-19. None, though, are likely to disappear anytime soon, and that means carriers and shippers are searching for partners that have the right mix of technology, scale and history of innovation to guide them through a fundamentally changed supply chain.

“E-commerce was a boom,” said Drew Wilkerson, president of North American transportation business forXPO Logistics. “We...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/xpos-wilkerson-look-for-2020-shipping-trends-to-stick-around-in-2021

XPO Logistics helps carriers grow with new technology and rewards programs

Relationships matter and in volatile times they matter even more. XPO Logistics has spent years building relationships with its shipping partners, but without carriers and truck drivers, those shipments never move.

Nick Ober, vice president of operations for freight brokerage at XPO Logistics, told Dooner and The Dude of FreightWaves’ WHAT THE TRUCK?!? podcast on Monday the goal is to make it easy for carriers to source loads on the XPO Connect digital marketplace.

XPO Connect allows carriers to...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/xpo-logistics-helps-carriers-grow-with-new-technology-and-rewards-programs

Technology helps close the trust gap within the supply chain

XPO Connect offers shippers trusted information on freight shipments

Author Simon Popley, senior partner of leadership and coaching for Logistics Executive Group, wrote in 2018 about trust and the difficulty in achieving it within the supply chain.

“Understanding the nature of trust is important,” he wrote. “The problem with a word like ‘trust’ is that we all believe we understand it. ‘Trust,’ in at least that sense, is taken for granted. That makes it all the more critical to ensure all parties involved in any given supply chain activity or process are well...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/technology-helps-close-the-trust-gap-within-the-supply-chain

Drive XPO, XPO Connect technologies enjoying rapid growth in 2020

Drive XPO app

Launched in 2018, downloads of the Drive XPO app have doubled in 2020, surpassing 200,000 downloads as of Thursday, according to XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO). More than 65,000 carriers are registered on the associated XPO Connect platform.

“The immediate access to capacity that XPO Connect brings to every transaction is really resonating with shippers and carriers,” Drew Wilkerson, XPO’s president of North American transportation, said in a statement. “September has been another strong month for...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/drive-xpo-xpo-connect-technologies-enjoying-rapid-growth-in-2020

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