Digital Freight Matching

In this third and final installment in our “Best Practices for Optimizing Your Digital Freight Matching Platform” series, we examine whether shippers receive more competitive bids from private or public bidders on a digital freight matching platform.

The purpose of this white paper is to provide best practices for optimizing the use of a digital freight matching platform in several key areas; posting lead times, transparent freight bidding, and using private or public markets.

Ratings with Feedback Strengthen Trust Amongst Digital Freight Matching Participants.

Logistics Management Group News Editor recently spoke with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics about various topics, including: capacity and rates, Peak Season, the election, and logistics technology, among others.

The new enhancements for Convoy Go include: predictive trailer routing, automated reloads with batched routes, and improved telematics in its smart trailers. And company officials said that Convoy Go was the first drop service to offer loads to tens of thousands of owner-operators and small carriers in 2017, improving capacity, and then expanding nationally in 2019, providing scale.

In this second in a series of “Best Practices for Optimizing Your Digital Freight Matching (DFM) Platform,” we examine bidder behavior patterns and consider how both shippers and carriers can maximize efficiency by understanding these patterns.

Torch Logistics positions itself as the lone network to specifically focus on on a commitment to the short-haul sector, with technology built for short-haul freight.

In this best practices article we examine posting lead times, that is, the number of days in advance of a spot market shipment’s pickup date, for maximizing bid count.

San Francisco-based Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, and New York-based investment firm and a leading investor in the logistics sector Greenbriar Equity Group L.P. said earlier today that a Greenbriar-led investment group will invest $500 million in a Series A preferred stock financing for Uber Freight, which will value it at $3.3 billion on a post-money basis.

This white paper explains why business-to-business carriers today benefit from access to a neutral digital freight matching platform to best use their available capacity, resources, and equipment.

Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, announced today that it had introduced two new products, as it expands into enterprise software, entitled Uber Freight Link and Uber Freight Enterprise.

ZUUM Co-Founder Matt Tabatabai explained that the key focus for ZUUM, since its 2016 inception, goes back to the defragmentation and decentralization, coupled with a lack of visibility, within logistics, which he called the biggest problem in the industry, and it comes with myriad inefficiencies.

Okerstrom will be joining Convoy from Expedia Group Inc., where he served as president and CEO.

Over the course of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, shippers have been up against myriad challenges and changes, which have subsequently resulted in making changes on the fly, in various ways, in order to be able to adapt to a suddenly changing world, and, more specifically, logistics operations.

Convoy officials said that this announcement now brings its total TMS integrations to 12, which, it added, makes the Convoy digital freight network (DFN) pricing capability the "most widely available in the industry”,