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Windrose and the Price of a Yes
A Belgian haulier tried the electric E700 for two years before buying one - then agreed to service other Windrose trucks. For a young truckmaker, the real product may be the confidence to put a new machine on a working route.
WEX Europe sells a better way to stop for fuel
Behind the Esso Card is a business built on buying fuel, extending credit and making fleet paperwork behave. Its real test is whether the right filling station is on the driver’s route.
The Truck-Rental Name That Quietly Became a Port-to-Door Machine
Ryder still owns the red logo everyone recognizes. The more consequential business now runs behind it - warehouses, drivers, maintenance bays, software and roughly $10 billion in freight under management.
Netradyne
Netradyne is a San Diego-based AI and edge-computing company that builds Driveri, a vision-based dashcam and analytics platform for commercial fleets. Founded in 2015 by two former Qualcomm engineers, it uses on-device computer vision to score driving in real time, recognize good behavior as well as risk, and turn raw road footage into coaching, compliance, and exoneration evidence. In January 2025 it raised a $90M Series D at a $1.34B valuation, becoming India's first unicorn of the year thanks to its large Bengaluru engineering base.