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00:00 This week’s CCJ Tech Shorts highlights a telematics-based insurance program, a new AI voice assistant that helps drivers book loads hands free, a new tool that automates inbound tender decisions and more.
00:37 Truckstop.com, a freight platform that connects carriers and brokers across load matching, compliance and payments, has launched AVA or Advanced Voice Assistant. The voice-native AI carrier assistant allows carriers to search for their next load, check the competitiveness of its rate and proceed with negotiation or booking while moving at highway speeds.
With simple, natural voice commands, drivers can request that AVA consult Truckstop’s live load board and real-time market intelligence to surface relevant loads and rate context. Once the carrier selects a load, AVA connects the carrier to the load’s owner for booking. AVA can also identify potential convenient, affordable options for fueling and parking.
01:18 DriveWell Fleet, an insurance telematics platform by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, is now available in the Geotab Marketplace. Joining the marketplace makes it easier for fleets to activate DriveWell Fleet using their existing Geotab devices.
Geotab customers can now access telematics-based insurance programs that reward safe driving, helping them lower insurance costs and improve safety performance. At the same time, insurers gain access to driving data from Geotab-connected vehicles, enabling a better understanding of fleet risk and more accurate, behavior-based pricing.
DriveWell Fleet transforms telematics service provider (TSP) data into normalized, high-frequency insights, enabling more accurate risk selection, segmentation and pricing. With access to Geotab’s global installed base, insurers can scale telematics-based pricing across a much larger share of their commercial book.
02:09 TMS provider Transport Pro has partnered with driver identity verification platform Arthur.
Transport Pro broker clients can now order verification requests for both driver and truck at pickup through Transport Pro and get the response back in the system without leaving their workflow.
The Arthur platform uses a rapid, automated text-based workflow to confirm the driver's identity without requiring manual paperwork or phone calls. For drivers, it takes about 90 seconds without the need for an app, hardware or carrier enrollment.
02:40 Hoptek, an AI-native freight monetization platform for freight operators and logistics companies, has rolled out Hoptek Load Acceptor, a real-time decisioning product that automates inbound tender decisions before freight enters execution.
Built for carriers, brokers and 3PLs, it enables operators to respond faster to inbound tenders, reduce manual touch, identify incremental volume that should be repriced, preserve capacity for higher-value opportunities and scale decision volume without adding headcount or cost.
The load acceptor automates the freight a shipper has historically tendered to an operator and treats anything above that baseline as a new economic decision. Hoptek calls this baseline the Volume Commitment Level. Freight within that level can be accepted consistently under the policy. Freight above it is scored against network fit, capacity availability, service risk, margin profile and current market opportunity. From there, the system can accept, decline, route for human review or trigger a premium request.
03:40 A.D. Transport Express, a Michigan-based full truckload carrier that serves U.S. automotive manufacturers, has deployed Phillips Connect’s StealthNet trailer intelligence solution across its entire fleet of more than 1,700 trailers, including 1,050 OEM new builds.
By installing directly at the factory, A.D. Transport was able to dispatch each trailer the moment they left the factory, maximizing uptime and return on investment. The company has experienced zero platform failures since deployment.
In addition to its StealthNet units, A.D. Transport has deployed Connect1, Phillips Connect’s software platform, alongside the TechAssist app for its maintenance team. The company is now working with Phillips Connect to extend fleet visibility directly to drivers via the DriverAssist app.
04:25 PortCity, a 3PL that offers warehousing, drayage, brokerage, transload and over-the-road service, has adopted Eaigle’s gate and yard automation platform across its distribution network to digitize physical entry points.
Eaigle's Automated Vehicles Access Control (AVAC) system transforms existing camera networks into active data capture points, identifying trailers, containers and seals. This enhances driver check-in speed and yard navigation, allowing facilities to increase daily gate volume and mitigate operational bottlenecks.
The Eaigle platform connects real-time gate and yard insights and digital freight records directly within existing TMS, WMS, YMS, ERP and warehouse environments to maintain a unified data stream.
