Technology news and briefs for the week of Aug. 6, 2023:
Trucking wholesale insurance company Northland Insurance, a subsidiary of The Travelers Companies Inc., has launched a telematics program, a cargo theft reporting tool and a curated set of safety and risk mitigation resources.
The telematics program promotes safe driving habits by providing customers with real-time performance data. Customers who enroll in the program may receive either a premium discount or device subsidy. The cargo theft reporting feature expedites the claim process by enabling users to report thefts directly from a mobile app to the Northland claim team and Travelers’ Special Investigation Group (SIG). And a curated set of risk management tools and resources called the Northland Innovation Network is a central hub that provides customers with access to programs, platforms and research to help them keep workers and fleets operating safely and effectively.
These new customer benefits are added to the Northland Advantage suite of products and services, which include dedicated risk control safety specialists, experienced claim professionals and transportation industry attorneys.
Freight marketplace Truckstop has partnered with GoodShip, an all-in-one platform for transportation procurement and optimization, to offer logistics decision makers more pricing data and deeper analysis of load details.
GoodShip will use spot market rate data from the Truckstop Rate Insights tool within its smart recommendation engine, providing shippers with contextualized, actionable insights about their carrier network's performance and cost. GoodShip users will also be able to run procurement events in the platform and compare incoming bids to current and predicted market rates provided via the Truckstop API.
