The Future of Freight is a collaboration between FreightWaves and Convoy to highlight the businesses and individuals who are leading this change. Here you’ll find stories about supply chain professionals who are modernizing their operations, the technologies enabling the change, and best practices you can apply within your business. Check back to stay up to date on the latest freight industry trends and news.
Shippers often lack insights into long-term performance trends and hidden inefficiencies across their facilities. These inefficiencies lead to increased operating costs in the form of higher accessorial fees and truck rates.
Freight procurement programs, such as Convoy Guaranteed Primary and Convoy Dynamic Backup can deliver optimized savings in today’s market and flexible capacity in future freight markets.
One consumer paper products manufacturer managed to reduce expensive dwell time by 60% in just four weeks after partnering with Convoy to identify their inefficiencies.
Convoy’s increased visibility into Shasta’s loads helped the company improve truck utilization and reduce emissions, resulting in a ninefold decrease in tendering times.
How USA Truck and Convoy developed a new solution for elastic capacity that benefits shippers, carriers and brokers
TMS and flexible drop solution allow workers to easily find and manage capacity so they can focus on running the business
How Flexport and Convoy leverage APIs and automation to create a more efficient supply chain
“It used to take me over 4 hours, and now I’m looking at 30 minutes tops to do all my freight,” said Elliot.
Convoy’s TMS helps Elanders maintain consistency and recognize who is performing best in certain lanes and rate shops.
Digital freight networks level the playing field and aim to revolutionize the industry’s zero-sum game
Through its partnership with Convoy, Ardagh Group saved 34,632 pounds of CO2 in the past year by maximizing efficiency and eliminating empty miles
New technology and carrier-friendly operations have kept The Home Depot’s freight moving during the pandemic.
Toy seller Joyin thanks Convoy for its doubled year-over-year revenues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Traditional RFP processes consume time and money and still don’t yield permanent arrangements.
The French auto parts supplier wanted a simpler routing guide and superior visibility at a low cost.
Solutions for facility operations, predictive ETA and sustainability require an additional layer of advanced technology and clean data derived from digital freight networks.
Mohawk Group applies big data analysis not only to product design but also to sales and marketing, which allows it to run at very lean inventory levels.
Owens Corning shares an emerging view of corporate responsibility that seeks to look after not just what’s happening inside the four walls of the business, but in the wider world.
Legacy companies in the industrial supply chain with decentralized distribution models are deploying advanced technology to make their operations more efficient.
Convoy has introduced a new rate quote benchmarking tool for shippers that allows them to see how competitive the rate being offered is.
Smaller carriers and owner-operators no longer have to spend hours searching for freight now that Convoy allows them to bid on dedicated freight lanes.
The company’s vision is to build a supply chain with a footprint as light and efficient as its detergent pods.
The partnership includes 15% discounts to Convoy’s carriers looking to buy KeepTruckin products and solutions.
Machine learning is now ‘pervasive’ in Convoy’s operations.
Filling Anheuser-Busch’s backhauls poses a challenge and a massive opportunity for efficiency gains and reduced environmental impact.
Convoy is using advances in machine learning to drive safer carriers into its digital freight network.
In complex supply chains, not every delivery to a grocery store, wholesaler or food service provider is perfect, due to a number of factors that lead to massive waste.
Dairy Max, Convoy team up to deliver fresh milk to food banks in Texas with plans to expand in other states
Large corporations are more committed than ever to ambitious sustainability initiatives that they believe can simultaneously help the brand, company profitability, the environment, and the communities in which they operate.
Waiākea Hawaiian Volcanic Water was created in 2012 not only to be an ethically sourced premium water brand, but according to its founder, to change the consumer packaged goods industry from the inside out.
A more efficient supply chain operation allows Encore Glass to prioritize what matters: carrier and customer relationships.
Convoy and FourKites announced new dashboards and emissions-reduction tracking tools to help shippers identify their environmental footprint.
CHEP’s Zero Waste World platform lets customers reduce empty miles together
Listen in to this engaging conversation about the invisible backbone of freight.
With so many players involved in the supply chain, collaboration is critical to achieving sustainability goals.
This article explores steps that shippers can take to manage current supply chain disruption.
This marks the second year in a row that Convoy has won this prestigious award from Niagara.
Shippers are making carbon reduction an explicit aspect of the procurement processes for their supply chain.
Compliance risk is serious business for shippers, and it can have significant repercussions. Just consider cargo theft, which is merely one aspect of compliance risk.
Welcome to Convoy’s Resource Center for Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The trucking capacity crunch, driver shortage, and electronic logging device (ELD) mandate are working together to create a carrier’s market right now.
Waste matters. For nearly every industry, waste contributes to higher costs. But in the freight industry, the stakes are even higher.
This infographic explores how CHEP works to meet consumer demand in a sustainable way
CHEP’s iconic blue pallet is not just a product offered to customers—it’s also a unique source of data that helps eliminate waste across CHEP’s network of partners, which include most of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world.
Lumper payments can tie up cash for weeks as carriers wait for reimbursement, but Convoy is now automating the process, guaranteeing payment with the touch of a button.
Less than a year after automating the load-matching process, Convoy is now automating the brokerage side in select markets.
Riding a wave of innovations, the digital freight services startup ranked No. 3 on the FreightTech 25 list of most disruptive companies.
Convoy launched Automated Reloads in June. Since then, the company said in “top markets,” the number of empty miles has been reduced by up to 50% or more in some areas and carbon emissions from empty miles have been reduced 45%.
Convoy has rolled out a free transportation management system for shippers. Also, USPS is interested in drone operators, Rivian wants people to subscribe to its trucks, and Virgin Atlantic pushes for more air cargo marketshare in London.
Shippers, TMS and MTP providers have now been given access to Convoy’s automated real-time pricing and capacity for both live and drop-and-hook loads through API and a suite of developer tools called Convoy Now.
Consumer goods company has created rest areas for truckers and adopted digital freight matching.
Several years ago Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, initiated a plan to overhaul its logistics network, which at the time included a fleet of nearly 6,500 third-party trucks […]
FreightWaves partnered with freight brokerage Convoy to recognize Target as one of its top Shippers of Choice.
A top American manufacture wins award for its treatment of truckers.
Ease of doing business ranked high with drivers serving over 40 facilities.
Land O’Lakes continues to value the companies that haul its freight and the drivers that show up to its docks, even as the state of the market shifts.
The Kraft Heinz Company is a Shipper of Choice not only because the company strives to create an efficient supply chain through investments in technology, but also because the food producer is dedicated to ensuring its supply chain promotes sustainability and social responsibility.
FreightWaves and Convoy recently teamed up to present the first annual Shipper of Choice Award to a top-notch manufacturer, distributor or retailer. Conagra Brands (NYSE: CAG) ranked number 4 out […]
Working with over 100 outside carriers and brokers, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is likely to be a shipper of choice for many already. But even one of the U.S. freight industry’s […]
As a shipper of choice, Nestle wins plaudits for its willingness to partner and its fondness for innovation.
The first-of-its-kind award was created to recognize shippers committed to eliminating inefficiencies from the supply chain and aiming to be excellent partners for their carriers.
