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Flock Freight and the expensive art of shipping air
A half-empty truck still sends a full-sized bill. Flock Freight pools compatible shipments to make the unused space pay its way - provided the route, timing and arithmetic agree.
Why Uber paid $2.25 billion for Transplace’s quieter kind of power
Transplace made a business of knowing what happens before a truck leaves the yard. Its sale to Uber Freight reveals why managing the shipment can matter as much as finding the truck.
Covenant Logistics wants freight worth waiting for
The Chattanooga carrier is trading ordinary loads for specialized work and longer commitments. Its wager reveals what a truck really sells: a dependable place in someone else’s plans.
Echo Global Logistics: The best mile is the one you never drive
A shipment that crossed America twice reveals the appeal of Echo Global Logistics: find the wasted work, then make it disappear. Now the Chicago freight broker is buying its way further into the supply chain.
MODE Global: The Freight Giant Built on Local Knowledge
A $238.5 million sale exposed a useful disagreement about how logistics should work. MODE Global has spent the years since backing independent agents with the machinery of a much larger business.
R2 Logistics built the software. Then kept answering the phone.
A freight broker with its own transportation software, R2 Logistics sells a practical pairing: more carrier choices and someone accountable when the shipment gets complicated.
Trinity Logistics sells the part a truck cannot carry
A freight broker’s most useful cargo is certainty. Trinity Logistics has built its business around the people, software, and patient relationships that make a shipment less of a guessing game.
Matson Logistics and the $197.6 million art of the handoff
A ship can cross an ocean and still leave your business stranded at the dock. Matson Logistics makes its living connecting the next moves - and paid $197.6 million to own more of them in Alaska.
Schneider’s orange trucks run on small decisions
A freight empire begins with a truck. Schneider’s more interesting achievement is learning when to send one, when to use a train, and when to abandon the trip altogether.
J.B. Hunt learned to share the road. Then it bought a ticket for the train.
A trucking company found a bigger business by letting railroads carry the middle of the journey. The lesson is useful far beyond freight: own the customer’s problem, and be willing to share the solution.
RLS Logistics found room to grow by moving the aisles
A New Jersey mushroom farm became a cold chain business with a surprisingly concrete idea: stop paying to refrigerate empty space. Inside RLS Logistics, the useful innovations happen between the shelves, the trucks, and the customer’s next big order.
RedStone Logistics and the hidden cost of a cheap truck
A melting dessert, an overworked wine buyer, and an emergency generator reveal RedStone Logistics’ central wager: the freight rate is only the beginning of the bill.
Venture Logistics and the expensive art of moving empty space
A truck can arrive on time and still waste money. Venture Logistics sells manufacturers a more demanding proposition: fix the network that sent it.
Syfan Logistics sold the business. Then it missed the people.
A Georgia family returned to freight after selling its first company. Its second act pairs trucks, carrier relationships, and a very practical obsession with who answers the phone.
PLS Logistics and the $284,000 freight blind spot
A manufacturer watched its outbound freight and overlooked what was arriving. PLS Logistics turned that blind spot into reported savings - an example of what happens when someone finally counts the whole journey.
EASE Logistics bets the freight business on two minutes
A fast reply sounds like a small advantage. EASE Logistics has built freight brokerage, warehouses and an automation agenda around what happens next.
TRAFFIX found a billion-dollar business in the empty miles
A truck driver saw wasted space on the road. Nearly five decades later, TRAFFIX is applying the same instinct to border crossings, freight networks, and the wait between a quote and cash.
Brown Integrated Logistics makes a case for fewer handoffs
A truck, a warehouse and a freight broker can each do their job while the shipment still goes wrong. Brown Integrated Logistics sells a way to make someone answer for the space between them.
Ruan makes your fleet somebody else’s problem
The truck may wear your name. The operation behind it may belong to Ruan, a family-owned logistics company that turns drivers, dispatch, and warehouse headaches into a service.
C.H. Robinson Found the Traffic Jam in Your Inbox
Before a truck can move, somebody has to answer an email. C.H. Robinson built a business around that unglamorous interval - and is now using AI to shorten it, with consequences for customers, competitors, and its own workforce.
Werner Enterprises pays $282.8 million for a more predictable road
The blue-truck business built from a single rig is buying longer relationships and shedding troublesome freight. Its bet: knowing next week’s route can be worth more than owning another truck.
CRST built a business on the empty ride home
An Iowa carrier began by putting steel into trucks returning from Chicago. Seven decades later, the harder question is which journeys are still worth making.
Redwood Logistics finds the savings between the systems
A tile retailer needed better freight options. Redwood’s answer reveals the business hiding between trucks, software, and the people who make them cooperate.
Mastery Logistics wants freight to stop playing telephone
A truck has one destination. Its data can have a dozen. Mastery’s MasterMind puts fleet, brokerage and shipper operations in the same conversation - with a surprisingly human theory of how software gets used.
Prism Logistix Added 20 AI Agents—and Kept Hiring
With 20,000 customer rules threatening its growth, Prism Logistix put Pallet’s AI agents to work across the freight back office. It reports a 10% net-margin improvement, faster employee ramp-up, and more hiring in sales and account management.
The AI Freight Agent Your Brokerage Should Hire First
At 200 loads a day, the right AI agent depends on where work stalls: the phone, the inbox, carrier coverage, or status updates. Here is how to choose a first pilot, test the vendor's claims, and know when it has paid off.
The Check Call Bot Can Save Time and Still Lose the Carrier
AI voice agents can chase a truck’s status, ETA and dock time. The harder question for freight teams is when the call should end with a person - and whether carriers will want to answer again.
The 40-Year-Old Software Company Running the Boring, Expensive Parts of Trucking
McLeod Software survived four decades by obsessing over the unglamorous handoffs where freight companies lose time and money. Now the Birmingham firm is wiring AI, smart trailers, and driverless trucks into the same operating system.
Lori Stinson Spent 24 Years Moving Freight. Now She’s Moving Small Businesses Into AI
After two decades inside the unforgiving machinery of logistics, Lori Stinson is bringing an operator’s instinct to AI - fewer shiny demos, more systems that make Monday morning work.
GlobalTranz Started With Zero Dollars. Here’s the Freight Playbook That Made It a $930 Million Company
A Navy veteran used prepaid eBay shipments and a homemade rate engine to drag freight brokerage online. The clever part was not owning trucks - it was turning fragmented capacity, independent agents and software into a machine that private equity could not stop buying.