Chris Burruss, former president of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance and TCA, has been named vice president of transportation relations at the blockchain logistics platform provider dexFreight.
The Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) Standards Council Board has approved its first official standard as it seeks to establish industry-wide framework for the emerging, Internet-based, logistics tracking technology.
Change happens quickly in trucking, and the pace of change will only accelerate in the coming years, according to Susan Beardslee, principal analyst at ABI Research, whether that's electric vehicles, blockchain, government actions, or disruptive technologies.
The blockchain logistics platform provider dexFreight has launched the dexFreight Early Adopters Program to allow shippers, carriers, brokers and forwarders in the U.S. to evaluate the platform ahead of launch.
Startup company dexFreight says it has completed its first blockchain-based shipment using smart contracts, allowing the shipper and carrier to directly connect, negotiate rates, and schedule pickup and delivery.
“Extreme connectivity” is the buzzword at McLeod Software, said President Tom McLeod at the company’s 2018 user conference, whether that’s helping its fleet and broker customers connect with load matching, working with truck makers on how to connect autonomous trucks to real-world fleet business, using blockchain to automate payments, or connecting with products that haven’t even been developed yet.
Applying blockchain technology to trucking may hold promise in the future, but at the present, its application in the industry is somewhere between “hype and reality."
Silicon Valley-based truck-sharing startup Do Freight Transportation (Doft) has announced the initial offering of a cryptocurrency called Doftcoin to the trucking community.
Blockchain is often talked about in terms of its usefulness in the relationship between manufacturers, carriers, distributors, and end users but its potential for heavy-duty truck maintenance is immense. Commentary by Aftermarket Contributing Editor Denise Rondini.
Fleetcor Technologies, Inc. will test blockchain technology as a way to modernize payments for its commercial fleet clients, especially across international borders, as part of a new initiative with Ripple, which has expertise in the technology, according to the company.