New AI platforms transforming trucking logistics

00:00 This week’s CCJ Tech Shorts features Optym’s new AI-powered operations platform, PCS Software’s new AI modules and more.

00:20 Optym, a logistics optimization technology, has rolled out LoadAi, an AI-powered operations platform built to help truckload carriers reduce empty miles, optimize dispatch decisions, and scale planner productivity across their networks.

LoadAi, which integrates with a carrier’s TMS, ELD, load boards and market rate data, evaluates thousands of possibilities in seconds to surface the best options for assigning freight, building trips, and utilizing assets.

LoadAi currently helps fleets in four areas of operations:

• It combines partial and LTL loads into efficient manifests that feed directly into multi-stop routing plans.
• It builds optimized multi-stop trips around delivery windows, driver hours, and equipment requirements.
• It monitors live operations, flags disruptions, and recommends real-time adjustments.
• And it surfaces spot market and backhaul freight based on available capacity and driver location.

01:19 Transportation Management System PCS Software has released three Cortex AI modules: Dispatch Manager, Load Opportunity Manager, and Backhaul Booster.

Cortex AI is the built-in intelligence inside PCS TMS. The new Cortex modules form a four-step, AI-powered workflow that moves a load from inbox to executed backhaul in just a few screens, reducing hours of manual work across multiple systems into a single workflow.

Dispatch Manager analyzes over 36 real-time data points on drivers, assets, and lanes to recommend or automate assignments, cutting tender-to-dispatch time from minutes to seconds.

Load Opportunity Manager ingests opportunities from emails, documents, and EDI, then scores them by profitability with a custom metric builder and natural language search. Cortex automatically generates branded shipper emails and can even place AI-powered voice calls to win the load.

Backhaul Booster searches the network for profitable reloads to minimize empty miles.

02:20 Triumph, a fintech company focused on payments, factoring, intelligence and banking solutions for the transportation industry, has unveiled its integrated Pricing and Performance Intelligence solution.

Triumph is introducing sourcing capabilities by embedding carrier capacity and performance benchmarks from the Triumph Network into its Intelligence solution. This enhancement enables brokers to incorporate carrier-specific performance data and available capacity beyond their existing network into pricing decisions. Carrier sales teams now gain a unified view of their pricing and service quality across their internal network and the broader Triumph Network.

Key features include:

• A unified interface, displaying rate, performance and capacity data
• Predictive analytics to support long-term carrier relationships and short-term spot coverage
• And capacity sourcing tools to identify and secure available trucks within the broker’s network

03:16 G2Mint, a provider of AI-powered logistics technology, has partnered with Loadsure, an insurtech company that offers cargo insurance coverage for shippers, freight brokers, insurance agents, and motor carriers.

As part of this collaboration, Loadsure’s services will be made available as a plugin integration for G2Mint customers subscribed to its platform, enabling its users to access real-time cargo coverage embedded directly within their TMS workflows.

The new plugin connects G2Mint’s Miles solution with Loadsure’s fully automated insurance platform. Miles is an AI-powered Rate Engine that is mode agnostic and can rate any supply chain agreement. Miles is equipped with connectors to integrate data and plugins and a fully integrated broker and shipper TMS. The result is an embedded experience that aims to simplify risk management, accelerate claims processing, and ensure shipments are protected.

04:10 Vectura Risk Management has launched Transport Risk-as-a-Service (TRaaS), a bolt-on protection solution that delivers end-to-end in-transit security for high-value freight. Fitting seamlessly over existing processes, Transport Risk-as-a-Service combines verification, monitoring, deterrence, and recovery into a single service, giving shippers, carriers, and brokers instant access to advanced risk management.

Key capabilities include:

• Pickup assurance, preventing fraudulent collections through driver, tractor, and trailer validation. The premium option provides access to a pre-approved network of trusted logistics partners.

• Real-time GPS tracking, geofencing, and SOP-based escalation to detect and respond before threats escalate.

• Armed or unarmed cargo escorts, staged-trailer protection, covert deployments, and hand-carry options for small, high-value shipments.

• 24/7 incident response, law enforcement liaison, and rapid recovery to minimize disruption and loss.

05:10 Samsara has expanded its AI-powered safety platform to include Weather Intelligence, Automated Coaching and Worker Safety.

With Weather Intelligence, real-time alerts are built into Samsara and tied to specific routes to help fleets avoid costly delays and improve safety. This feature combines radar visibility with ground-level insights from Samsara’s network of AI dash cams. The platform identifies which drivers and assets are at risk with live weather overlays and National Weather Service alerts, including radar, wind speed, thunderstorm risk and temperature. Managers can send proactive warnings directly to drivers in severe weather zones via in-cab dash cams or Driver App as well as access live dash cam footage from their fleet vehicles alongside anonymized footage from nearby vehicles on the Samsara network.

With Automated Coaching, AI automatically analyzes and prioritizes safety events based on risk factors such as behavior frequency and severity, trip conditions, and driver history. Lower-priority events are sent to drivers for self-review, while high-risk events are escalated to managers. The platform also allows managers to automatically generate presentations for team-wide training, using AI to provide insights into big-picture behavioral trends across drivers and trips. Every driver receives daily coaching and recognition.

With Worker Safety in the driver app, workers can quickly alert managers to safety threats, such as falls, worksite injuries from machinery or overexertion, severe weather or aggressive encounters.