When commercial vehicles get towed while hauling freight, jobs and commerce are at stake. For carriers and brokers of many sizes, one missed load or incomplete trip can be margin-shattering at best and catastrophic at worst. But on top of those pitfalls, towing companies may charge over six figures to move a tractor-trailer. And while
It’s very possible that the current freight market has finally turned, meaning that the worst of the two-year long freight recession could be behind us. However, the fraud and theft that have prospered during the downturn don’t appear to be going anywhere. In this article, we’ll look at the most common forms of fraud and
During the mid-2010s, self-driving vehicles of every variety felt like an inevitability on the roadways within the next handful of years. General Motors, Toyota, and Honda all predicted that they would be producing self-driving cars by 2020. That anticipated reality didn’t come to fruition, as the technology of the late 2010s and early 2020s couldn’t
If you own a brokerage or play a significant role in its day-to-day operations, you are likely looking for ways to make business run more smoothly and successfully during an uncertain era. While there’s no magic solution that will fix all of what currently ails the industry, automation powered by artificial intelligence can help brokers
For this year’s TIA Capital Ideas Conference in Phoenix, Transflo proudly awarded a scholarship for attending the show to a young professional working to advance their career in the brokerage/3PL space. The winner of the 2024 scholarship is Aaron DeGroot, who works as Director, Risk Management for family-owned DeGroot Logistics in the Chicago area. DeGroot
Cross-border freight operations, the current freight recession, fraud, and transparency were a few of the many interesting topics addressed at the 2024 TIA Capital Ideas Conference held in Phoenix from April 10-13. The freight market has had to deal with a degree of whiplash over the last few years. The high-demand COVID era of 2020-21
During the last few years, artificial intelligence has gone from a topic espoused as the next big thing by data scientists and tech executives to the present-tense, here-now big thing that affects every major industry in the economy. Conversations about AI run the gamut from practical, day-to-day use cases to optimistic and pessimistic predictions about
As the saying goes, “old habits die hard.” This is especially true when transporting freight, as the economic necessity of taking loads from point to point means that legacy processes can be difficult to phase out or push to the back burner. However, no commodity is quite as precious to the day-to-day operations of trucks
There’s been a lot of discussion about AI within the supply chain, but the question is how do we apply AI in a meaningful way? Our team answers these questions on our exclusive webinar, Beyond Manual Limits. We’re joined by Mario Duckett and Emily Stratton from Transflo, and Don Everhart from FreightVana – as we
We’ve heard many times how logistics and the supply chain run like a fine-tuned engine, and for the most part this analogy is accurate. Much like an engine, there are many parts that work in sync to maintain the momentum of operations – but every engine has its points of failure. One of the biggest