Category: Tech & Visibility

Convoy reduces theft and double brokering to less than 0.001% of loads

Real-time fraud detection system continually monitors carrier risk and proactively blocks fraud before it occurs. Today we’re excited to announce a new real-time fraud detection system that has reduced cargo theft, double brokering, and other forms of fraud in our network by 90%, even as the industry experienced a 41% increase¹. This new system, which…

The future of communication in freight and logistics: examining APIs and the potential for improvement

When it comes to communicating in the freight and logistics industry, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has long been the established method. However, as we look closer at communication protocols and modern API technologies, it becomes evident that there are nuanced considerations to explore. While modern web APIs offer significant flexibility and advantages, the absence of…

Driving change: how hybrid carriers will finally unlock economies of scale in trucking

The future of trucking is neither traditional brokers nor asset carriers; it is a new model, which we will call the hybrid carrier. This model gets materially better with scale, using technology to address the industry’s existing limitations and the reasons that trucking remains so fragmented. Hybrid carriers have a digital truckload marketplace, a universal…