7 Logistic Startups to Watch in 2016
The problem of calculating freight rates quickly may just be a thing of the past with some of the great apps available now for carriers. With just a few waves of your pointer-finger, you can optimize your transportation efforts in an ever-increasingly paperless world. And, the Silcon Valley has definitely started to notice. After all, arranging cargo shipments is a $160-billion-a-year industry….(and historically been a huge pain...
How Trucking is Using Big Data to Improve Business
So you think trucking hasn’t evolved since the Smokey and Bandit era of CV radios (and serious mustaches?) Well, think again. The trucking industry is becoming increasingly innovative to connect fleet managers to drivers. In many ways implementing more technology-focused initiatives with analytics use data to gain insight into the normal business flow so that they can better calculate delivery times schedules, improve fuel...
Find Your Ride: “Uber” for Trucking
Unless you’ve been completely under a rock the past few years, you’ve probably heard of Uber. It’s that mobile app that let’s people find and pay for rides—it’s essentially a virtual taxi service. Users can even become drivers and earn cash hauling people around. And despite a lot of negative press they’ve received, their idea became so popular that it has inspired a new generation of thinking...
“Virtual Technician”: Internet-Connected Engines Are the Future of Trucking
The last thing a truck driver wants is to get behind due to unforeseen truck maintenance. You know, the dreaded “check engine” light of death—–ranging from anything simple needing an oil change… to something far more devastating. From there you have two choices (neither one a good choice, either): 1. Keep going and just hope and pray you don’t end up breaking down. Or, 2. Take it to get looked at...