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Tag: blockchain

Blockchain-ready tracking platform launches

The leaders of freight and logistics company ShipChain are formally launching their blockchain-based Track and Trace platform. The launch follows the successful completion of a pilot program with Perdue Farms.

January 31, 2019

Round-up: Plea for common sense at the counter of knowledge, bucking the blockchain hype machine, more

Opposing blockchain views, the march of technology and one longtime owner-operator's plea for a return to common sense by drivers and more.

June 14, 2018

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Overdrive Extra

Blockchain could tame the blame game for owner-operators

Blockchain technology benefits owner-operators by keeping detailed records of deliveries and providing real-time sharing of information. Read more on Overdrive.

June 11, 2018

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Blockchain to undergird GoLoad payments

When someone signs up for Konexial’s GoLoad platform, they agree on three significant terms for all freight movements transacted within the platform. Details here.

May 8, 2018

Blockchain tech could put teeth in detention pay

Enforcement of detention pay through blockchain technology is “a huge way it could affect drivers,” said Dan Pickett, chief data scientist with FreightWaves, a forum for blockchain technology and other freight analytics tools.

April 2, 2018

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Trucking ‘hackathon’ set for April

The “HackTheIndustry” freight hackathon is scheduled for April this year on Georgia Tech’s campus in Atlanta as part of a program sponsored in part by the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) and its affiliated Freightwaves.com freight-tech publication.

January 30, 2018

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Trucker Path acquisition by global company Renren to bring navigation, more to the trip-planning app

Meet Renren CEO Joseph Chen, who drove truck for a time as a young man and says the Trucker Path acquisition is intended to take the app and its affiliated services “to the next level,” Chen says. “I think that the next 20 years will be most exciting for the trucking industry globally as we gradually get more technology into the industry.”

January 12, 2018

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Blockchain: Chance to speak to a shared language

Blockchain systems could form a backbone for a lot of what happens in the supply chain, says Chris Burruss, president of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance. He believes standardizing systems now will grease the skids for companies being able to benefit from future technology.

January 11, 2018

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Blockchain ‘immutable distributed public ledger’ technology: Makes sense, right?

A late-night-comedy send-up of Bitcoin investment (made possible by “blockchain” network architecture) exaggerates divergent reactions similar to those that follow the notion of automated trucking-business-info sharing in other envisioned blockchains — from affirmative head nods to “are you insane?” incredulity … .

January 10, 2018

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Blockchain: Better tools to fight detention abuse, with added utility for driver, carrier credentials

Using geofencing and other location data, a blockchain system might document detention time with a high degree of accuracy. If the system is part of a “smart contract,” a driver would receive detention pay quickly. Drivers/carriers, meanwhile, might use private keys to take control of their business data.

January 9, 2018

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Blockchain: Uncertain future for factors, brokers with less reliance on building relationships, more trust in verified data

Blockchains have been called “trustless,” which isn’t intended to be as negative as it sounds. Rather, the term refers to the trust created by the structure of information contained in a blockchain, which could virtually eliminate the necessity of the personal touch that traditionally has been required to build trust in business relationships

January 8, 2018

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The coming of blockchain

Carriers, manufacturers and other trucking players are flocking to an emerging ‘distributed ledger’ approach to online business. Here’s how it could affect owner-operators.

January 5, 2018

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