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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.
NFI bought the trucks. Then came the hard part.
The family-owned logistics company has logged 10 million electric-truck miles. Its most useful lesson is waiting back at the depot.
KBX Logistics found a 57% saving hiding under a torn tarp
Built inside Koch’s supply chain, KBX Logistics learned to question the trailer, the route, and the bill. Its move into managed transportation gives other shippers access to that hard-earned habit.
Ascent Global Logistics: The $500,000 Case for Taking a Different Route
An automotive shipment took 43 days to arrive. Ascent changed the route, brought it down to 25, and showed why the cheapest freight bill can be an expensive habit.
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.
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.
The $300,000 bill that taught Jarrett to keep its promises
A customer’s bankruptcy nearly sank the Ohio logistics company. Its answer was a stronger balance sheet, a human on the phone, and a rather exacting view of what service should mean.
ODW Logistics and the price of empty space
A truck can run out of weight before it runs out of room. ODW Logistics turns that awkward fact into a business: matching freight, joining up warehouses and transport, and helping brands pay less for the journey.
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.
CJ Logistics America and the art of moving less
A Chicago warehouse business joined a Korean logistics network. Its most revealing trick is making the journey shorter - for food, forklifts, and the people answering the email.
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.
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.
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.
FreightWise Put a Price on Freight's Blind Spots - Then Bought a TMS Marked for Shutdown
The Tennessee logistics company sells software, freight expertise and an unusual promise: expose the cost hiding between a quote and the invoice. Its biggest bet was rescuing Kuebix and rebuilding it for the shippers enterprise software tends to overlook.
Ryan Renne Built Two Freight Companies. Then He Returned to the Ballfield.
After two freight-company exits, the FreightSaver co-founder is applying the same operating instinct to a problem he first tackled in 2007: helping overlooked athletes get organized, get realistic and get noticed.
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.
FreightSaver Sold the Middle-Market Freight Playbook - Then Borrowed a Bigger Network
A 52-person California 3PL made freight software feel human, cracked the Inc. 5000 and sold to Echo for an undisclosed price. Its most useful lesson is not about trucks - it is about packaging high-touch service so it can scale.
Nuvocargo
Nuvocargo is a digital-first freight forwarder and licensed U.S. customs broker built to simplify the $40B+ over-the-road freight market between the United States and Mexico. Through a single platform, it combines trucking, customs clearance, cargo insurance, carrier payments and trade finance, and is increasingly layering AI automation across the load lifecycle. Founded in 2019 by Deepak Chhugani, the New York- and Mexico City-based company has raised over $74M and rode the nearshoring wave to serve roughly 500 shippers including Kimberly-Clark, Nestle and Grupo Bimbo.