freight

Uber Freight Adds Ratings Feature For Truckers
Uber Freight Adds Ratings Feature For Truckers
February 01, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Uber Freight is taking another page out of the Uber app book with the introduction of a ratings feature designed to allow truckers to rate...

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Daimler Invests $573M In Self-Driving Trucks
Daimler Invests $573M In Self-Driving Trucks
January 07, 2019  |  Innovation

Luxury German car manufacturer Daimler has announced that it will invest $573 million (500 million euros) into developing technologically advanced autonomous trucks. The move will create...

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Loadsmart On What Freight Consolidation May Mean For Payments
Loadsmart On What Freight Consolidation May Mean For Payments
October 25, 2018  |  B2B Payments

The U.S. freight market is notoriously fragmented. As the vast majority of trucking fleet operations have only a handful of vehicles, shippers’ ability to efficiently...

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Shipwell On Driving Logistics Innovation Through Connectivity
Shipwell On Driving Logistics Innovation Through Connectivity
October 19, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Efforts to disrupt the logistics and freight industry have multiplied in recent years, particularly with the emergence of technologies like the Internet of Things and...

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Driverless Trucks Hog the Highway to an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Driverless Trucks Hog the Highway to an Autonomous Vehicle Future
October 02, 2018  |  Ecosystems

Driverless cars are indeed coming to roads soon enough — the U.K.’s transport secretary, in fact, recently predicted that those vehicles would appear there within four...

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FreightRover Lands $500M For Faster Freight Payments
FreightRover Lands $500M For Faster Freight Payments
September 27, 2018  |  B2B Payments

FreightRover, a company working to accelerate B2B payments to truck operators, has secured $500 million in financing to fuel its factoring operations. Reports in The...

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eCapital: Modernizing The Factoring Tradition For A New Generation Of Fleet
eCapital: Modernizing The Factoring Tradition For A New Generation Of Fleet
September 24, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Of the hundreds of thousands of freight carriers in the U.S. today, the vast majority are small fleets with only a handful of trucks. These...

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Convoy Secures $185M In Series C Financing
Convoy Secures $185M In Series C Financing
September 21, 2018  |  Investments

To accelerate product innovation, trucking network Convoy has secured $185 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Alphabet’s growth equity fund CapitalG,...

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Logistics Marketplace Freightos Raises Series C Funding
Logistics Marketplace Freightos Raises Series C Funding
September 18, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Logistics marketplace Freightos has raised $44.4 million in Series C funding, reports in TechCrunch said Monday (Sept. 17). Freightos landed the investment led by Singapore...

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