The trucking industry moves more than 70% of all freight in the United States. While much of the focus is on the drivers behind the wheel, an entire logistical operation ensures that trucks stay ...

Didi, China’s Uber equivalent, has been testing out a new algorithm for assigning drivers to riders in select cities. The dispatching system uses reinforcement learning (RL), a subset of machine ...

Dispatching refers to the coordination and management of freight shipments among shippers, carriers and drivers. A dispatcher plays a central role in ensuring that loads are assigned to available ...

Managing dozens to hundreds of trucks, trailers, and company and independent drivers takes a lot of knowledge and skills. Over the past 15 years, however, those skills have changed as technology has ...