Brands on our platform don’t have to change a thing to benefit from collaborative opportunities. We offer EDI and API integrations to your TMS solutions. We have partnerships with all leading Enterprise TMS applications.
SemiCab serves as an extension of your TMS by pulling data from the solution, enriching that data, and delivering it back so you can create continuous improvement. Our customers deploy SemiCab in conjunction with their TMS because they recognize the need for a single app to manage all transportation beyond the tender where their TMS stops. SemiCab offers a way to see all loads for the day with optimal lanes and rates so you can optimize your transportation spend based on needs and a path to fulfilling customer orders as needed by rebalancing inventory seamlessly and optimally via data-driven insights and automation.
This isn't your average tactical system that matches trucks with loads and leaves it to the brands and retailers and carriers to do the heavy lifting. We know that technology can boost the benefits of collaboration, but it doesn’t enable it on its own.
Our key differentiator is what we call Orchestrated Collaboration™. We achieve this by optimizing aggregate demand and supply across a multi-enterprise network and continuously creating new collaboration opportunities for shippers and carriers to work together and making that happen.
Note that our tech-enabled services approach differs greatly from other digital freight solutions that are focused on matching a single load at a time, don’t leverage the network as a whole, and ultimately leave the hard work of collaborating to the network participants themselves.
Our unique approach to creating optimized routes and fully loaded round trips reduces carbon emissions from empty miles, helping you achieve your sustainability goals.
Working with us is easy. Once a load leaves your facility, we offer live GPS tracking on your shipments. You’ll be notified of all shipment progress milestones such as accepted, in-progress, dispatched, at pickup, in transit, at delivery, and delivered.
When you join the SemiCab community, you become a valued partner, and we take that commitment seriously. You’ll have access to a team member 24/7.
We offer local, regional, and long-haul full truckload (FTL) capacity across the following truck types:
- Dry van: Regular (53′)
- Reefer: Regular (53′)
- Drop and hook programs
Our reach is across all 50 states; however, we currently have a strong presence in the Northeast, Southeast, Texas, and Southern California.
Every relationship starts with an assessment and a short trial period. We take a look at your historical data (loads, routes, and volumes) and identify domiciles and lanes where we can immediately eliminate empty miles and/or deliver more efficient one-way capacity. This leads to an engagement that may run six to eight weeks, which demonstrates the potential value of a partnership and gives all parties a great place to start. From there, we can expand coverage to the rest of your network. To learn more or ask questions, send an email to: [tellmemore@semicab.com] and our team will contact you shortly.
The core of SemiCab’s approach is our predictive capacity optimization engine. On the demand side, the platform predicts demand from shippers in the network across lanes/locations and combines that predicted demand with actual demand to create an aggregate view. On the supply side, SemiCab brings together the actual and predicted locations of carriers’ equipment along with drivers’ hours and duty cycles. The aggregate demand and supply is optimized to create new opportunities for shippers to help them better utilize their own private and/or dedicated fleets, reducing volatility and increasing efficiencies. Demand and supply are continuously evaluated by the engine to be sure the collaboration being orchestrated reflects the most optimal matches that consider pickup, delivery, and DOT constraints.
The key to our platform's success lies in the AI/ML and optimization models that are:
#1 continuously evaluating the changing demand and supply.
#2 orchestrating collaboration opportunities among shippers and carriers without them having to do anything different.
The problem SemiCab solves for is unique and has not been adequately addressed at this scale until now. We, therefore, decided to build our own models for prediction and optimization.
This isn't your average tactical system that matches trucks with loads and leaves it to the shippers and carriers to do the heavy lifting. We know that technology can boost the benefits of collaboration, but it doesn’t enable it on its own. Our key differentiator is what we call Orchestrated Collaboration™. We achieve this by optimizing aggregate demand and supply across a multi-enterprise network and continuously creating collaboration opportunities for shippers and carriers to work together to increase efficiencies and eliminate empty miles, waste, and volatility. Our shippers don’t have to change a thing to benefit from collaborative opportunities.
Our approach differs greatly from other approaches out there that are focused on matching a single load at a time, don’t leverage the network as a whole, and leave the hard work of collaborating to the network participants themselves.
We start with an assessment to determine overall value over the course of one to two weeks. We take a look at shipment history: loads, routes, and volumes in the past so that we can better understand a shipper’s needs. By analyzing historical data, we identify domiciles and lanes where we can eliminate empty miles in the fleet or deliver more efficient one-way capacity. This leads to an engagement that may run six to eight weeks, which demonstrates the potential value and identifies the best place to start. From there, we can expand coverage to the rest of a shipper’s network.
Operational challenges like this are never going to go away. With SemiCab, our optimization works in real-time, so it is always learning. The predictive piece doesn’t just tell us when the demand is going to come up, it also tells us where, providing insight into where all trucks are going to be at any particular point in time. The advantage of machine learning is that it can predict that something is going to go wrong with a particular trip/load assignment. From there, you can feed that scenario into the optimization algorithm and let it deal with avoiding the issue by reassigning and rerouting.
Another benefit of machine learning is that as issues arise over time, a pattern emerges and from there, we’re able to adjust and learn from it. The combination of prediction through machine learning and continuous optimization is at the core of what we do to ensure we adhere to pickup and delivery windows, carrier duty cycles, and HOS regulations.
Dynamic pricing has a place in some digital freight models, helping address unforeseen fluctuations in demand as long as there is transparency around process and market factors. It is hard for an enterprise to operate exclusively on a dynamic pricing model for all its truckload needs as budgeting for freight becomes almost impossible with this approach. In essence, dynamic pricing really only helps on a case-by-case basis, rather than adding reliable and continued value to the freight network the way Orchestrated Collaboration™ does.
Digital freight models have leveraged technology for creating better matches of loads with carriers by tracking asset location. While this has alleviated the burden of finding a suitable load and partially automated the processes of bidding and accepting loads, it has not fundamentally changed anything from how things have worked conventionally. This strategy still depends on matching one load at a time, retains the transactional flavor, and is not designed to make the overall network more efficient. This transactional approach, in fact, increases volatility as participants try to pursue rates that favor them individually. The antidote to this volatility is to increase the efficiency of the entire network by reducing empty miles, which in effect adds capacity without adding trucks.
SemiCab's Orchestrated Collaboration™ enables shippers to manage their transportation without the need to change their process. It helps shippers increase the utilization of their private and dedicated fleets by enabling them to offer their underutilized capacity to a multi-enterprise network.
Since private and dedicated fleets represent a significant part of the overall trucking capacity in the U.S., many shippers decide they need private/dedicated fleets to fulfill their customer service needs, but it is often more expensive than one-way transportation. With the inherent imbalance in each supply chain, these fleets are also frequently underutilized. The only way to increase their utilization is to augment their use with other shippers’ freight, what SemiCab's Orchestrated Collaboration™ enables.
Can AI play a role in optimizing freight operations in a way that delivers true value for all participants? What type of value can be achieved? Would it be impactful to everyone including carriers, drivers, retailers and customers? Or is this still a futuristic vision that sounds good on paper but is not quite implementable in today's high pressure, e-commerce environment?
It's no secret that this industry needs to digitally transform and become more data driven. Uncovering the right data to make the right decisions is the common challenge of the day. If you’re a broker, carrier or shipper working on figuring out your transportation network strategy, reach out to SemiCab and we’ll get you started with a complimentary transportation network assessment.
Heading into 2024 there are glimpses of optimism on the horizon.
As RFP season approaches it is more important now than ever for brokers to utilize technology as an advantage to keep their business growing.
Current TMS solutions are complex and costly, yet they miss the mark on essential tools required by brokers. Find out how you can get started down your technology innovation path without blowing your budget.
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Discover how SemiCab offers a multi-enterprise transportation platform that works in conjunction with your TMS.
Today’s CPG brands contend with inventory availability, sustainability concerns, and rising costs, but customer expectations are a big ticket item too, and one that cannot be ignored. So, what is the actual cost of not serving your customers?
Manifest 2023 was awesome - over 3000 innovators and leaders in the supply chain space who are all focused on furthering the logistics and the supply chain technology space, all in the same room. Read on for our main takeaways.
CPG brands deal with inventory issues, rising costs, increasing customer expectations, and sustainability demands. Learn how they can keep up while protecting their bottom line.
While the world of transportation and technology is perpetually in flux with no certainties, there are some transportation trends we’re keeping an eye on that we think are worth bookmarking.
Learn how Stephen Cabral, SemiCab’s newest hire, will be using his decades of know-how to create optimal carrier network capacity within targeted domicile networks, including dedicated and private fleets, and traditional asset carrier partners.
Manifest was created to bring industry executives, entrepreneurs, and investors together to work on solving the world’s most complex logistics challenges. Here’s why we’re so excited for Manifest 2023 - read on!
The need for improved sustainability measures leads to innovation, and one exciting venture is the hydrogen cell fuel truck. The concept is still fairly new to many, so let’s take a moment to understand what exactly it is, and how it can help us achieve our sustainability goals.
A global and coordinated effort is needed to address the damaging effects of climate change, which means supply chain sustainability is critical.
There are many reasons we’re losing quality drivers. And while recruiting and retaining quality drivers isn’t easy, we have 8 surefire ways to make sure you’re doing all you can to bring in the best.
The freight industry is the backbone of the US, and yet it’s been decades since its last makeover. Discover how effective the use of a digital freight network can reduce volatility for the entire industry of shippers and carriers.
Our first Director of Marketing, Mark Sink, may be new to us, but he’s been in the transportation and supply chain technology arena for over 20 years. Read on for what Mark had to say about the global supply chain, how SemiCab helps, and how we all stand to benefit.
Learn three ways that autonomous trucking can work. While autonomous trucking has the potential to help with the driver shortage, it doesn’t address the freight industry’s biggest challenge: empty miles. That’s where SemiCab comes in.
Bryan Nella believes the time has come to look beyond the limited scope of our immediate lanes and needs and see the potential value across the wider trucking and transportation network. Fact is, when no miles are empty miles, everybody wins! Here’s what he has to say about the future of SemiCab.
Carriers, like Noerr Trucking, who dedicate some or all of their capacity to SemiCab get predictable income that empowers them to grow their business without a large sales team in place.
Bottomline is, there are many ways to make handling freight more efficiently. One is through multi-enterprise collaboration. The SemiCab platform orchestrates much-needed collaboration to set up shipments and loads in a more predictable manner, giving you the freedom to plan how and when you grow.
All players in the supply chain space are investing in novel ways to keep their supply chains strong, and many are considering collaboration, our bread and butter. If you’re wondering what the opportunities are, Gartner’s “How To Build a Supply Chain Ecosystem” might be helpful to you.
Choosing the digital freight solution that’s best for your business needs isn’t an easy task. The Gartner 2022 Market Guide for Digital Freight Models for Road Transportation offers valuable insight into the many vendors available to help with that decision.
The freight marketplace is inundated with dozens of different digital freight models with a variety of offerings—it’s a lot to keep track of and to understand. Thankfully, the Gartner 2022 Market Guide for Digital Freight Models for Road Transportation can help.
The right digital freight technologies can address capacity constraints and help with sustainability goals. Review a complimentary copy of Gartner’s Apply Technology to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Logistics report for recommendations.
Read about the direct link between addressing the labor shortage and improving sustainability measures, and how both are the key to helping retain drivers and completely change how freight operates as a whole.
The need to address empty miles is urgent, as customers, investors, regulators and other stakeholders increase their demands for improved sustainability measures. The 2021 Gartner® report: Apply Technology to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Logistics report is full of recommendations on how.
By dedicating capacity to the SemiCab Platform, carriers get access to hassle-free predictable income without having to change how they operate their daily business. Read on to learn more.
When you consider that 25-30 percent of the freight miles leading to GHG emissions are empty miles, it’s evident that it’s time for a change. SemiCab is making that change, and we’ve been recognized for our efforts by SDCE.
Between slow capacity growth, a shortage of containers and truckers, and the ongoing semiconductor chip crunch, which has severely limited new truck production, market volatility is showing no signs of slowing. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what’s causing it.
Keeping trucks on the road isn’t as easy as it looks to an outsider. As many carriers and owner-operators can attest, the challenges they face regularly to ‘keep on truckin’ are many.
There’s been a lot of talk about enabling sustainability in freight, but not enough is being done to make it happen. See why the time to act is now and how SemiCab can help.
The transportation community needs to band together to put an end to the needless destruction of our planet. The first step? Eliminating empty miles once and for all. Here’s how SemiCab plans to help.
Transportation capacity has been tight, rates have been high, and the labor shortage continues. What can we expect for the rest of 2021 and into 2022? Here’s what we predict.
Orchestrating collaboration is what SemiCab is all about. In this post, we’re benefiting from new collaborations with Plug and Play (PNP), the Remo Virtual app, and PNP’s Supply Chain Innovation Program, where collaboration and groundbreaking technology go hand in hand.
Between record shipping volumes, fluctuating fuel pricing and availability, and continued labor shortages, we’ve remained focused on delivering a Collaborative Transportation Platform that eliminates empty miles, reduces the nation’s carbon footprint, and creates new economic value for all.
We’re excited to welcome Guy Primus onto our advisory board to support our mission to deliver a Collaborative Transportation Platform that eliminates empty miles, reduces the nation’s carbon footprint, and creates new economic value across the transportation network.
SemiCab is creating long-term sustainability in freight. The industry is taking note, as they’ve been named to the Food Logistics’ 2021 Top Green Providers List. Discover what SemiCab is doing to eliminate empty miles, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies throughout the network.
The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that technology is key to survival, growth, and collaboration. Discover what the future of freight holds for us, based on our learnings from the May 2021 Virtual FreightWaves Live event.
Fast Company has recognized companies and organizations addressing the world’s most challenging problems through their World Changing Ideas Awards, and we’re thrilled to announce that SemiCab’s Collaborative Transportation Platform received recognition for tackling empty miles and creating long-term sustainability in the trucking industry.
Trucking rates are skyrocketing and trucking capacity is tight. That’s right, we’re in recovery mode. As we navigate this continued volatility in freight, one thing we can all but guarantee is that trucking capacity will remain tight throughout Q2, possibly even into Q3. What does FreightWaves Research predict? Find out.
With all the capacity issues currently plaguing the freight industry—we’re in need of a change. The answer? Collaborative transportation. See how SemiCab is making that possible in this Q&A with SemiCab’s Founder and CEO, Ajesh Kapoor.
There are two terms no logistics professional likes to hear: empty miles and volatility. There is a new-found reckoning in the industry that technology may be the answer to solving both issues. That’s why we spoke to SemiCab’s Chief Product Officer, Vivek Sehgal, to understand how technology will play a role in addressing the industry’s biggest challenges.
The freight industry is fraught with a number of challenges and inefficiencies. SemiCab, as a Collaborative Transportation Platform, was created to foster a collaborative spirit within the freight industry. To gain a better understanding of where we are at and where we are headed, we sat down with members of the SemiCab team to discuss how we can collectively become more efficient, stable, and wholly collaborative.
Shipping fresh produce takes coordination, meticulous communication, and a whole lot of planning. From temperature requirements to strict scheduling, there’s a lot to consider. So, what does it take to ship fresh produce?
Experts in every industry are attempting to plan and predict what we can expect for 2021. FreightWaves, The leading provider of trucking news, media, and analytics, recently released a white paper that we found extremely handy. Check out our summary of their predictions, and let’s face 2021 with these learnings as our guide.
The Freight Industry has a lot to face in 2021 and the coming years—volatility, sustainability measures, and evolving technology. Read our predictions for the year, and how we plan to fit in as North America’s only Collaborative Transportation platform.
NRF went digital this year, and though we’re sad to miss the in-person meeting, we’re still very much committed to understanding how retail, ecommerce, and transportation interact. Now, more than ever, it’s important for retailers to seek out collaborative partnerships in freight to better serve their customers. Learn about the trends we anticipate for 2021 and beyond.
Read on for key takeaways from our latest Webinar, Virtual Dedicated Capacity: The Antidote to Freight Capacity Volatility. We discussed dynamic pricing, dedicated fleets, and freight marketplace volatility, along with our solution to the issue: virtual dedicated capacity through SemiCab’s Predictive Optimization™ algorithm.
Dynamic pricing has been a part of the freight marketplace for years, and yet, is it really beneficial? Let’s break down the concept of dynamic pricing and explore why all of us at SemiCab believe the current freight model is broken. It’s time for change.
Last month, SemiCab got together with industry experts Rajiv Saxena (Kenco Logistics) and ElMarie Hugo (Supply Chain Expert) to discuss the issues associated with empty backhaul miles, in particular with regard to private and dedicated fleets. We explored potential solutions, like how to monetize empty backhaul miles through the use of Collaborative Transportation Networks.
Empty backhaul miles lead to lost revenue, unsafe conditions for drivers, and is unsustainable. We believe that Digital Freight Platforms are the solution to the issue, and that starts with community; with an equity-based ecosystem designed to ensure all participants benefit—SemiCab.
Empty backhaul miles are expensive, wasteful, and a nuisance. Shippers who have a dedicated fleet or their own private fleet to take care of deliveries and pickups generally don't have a solution in place that is designed to find loads for the backhaul portion of the drive. Read on to learn how Collaborative Transportation Networks can help.
Shippers are increasingly relying on private and dedicated fleets, but empty backhaul miles present a major challenge. If you’re looking to eliminate empty miles...read on.
For decades now, the freight marketplace has been cyclical—with moments of calm leading to volatility, and back to calm. The past few years have been mostly volatile, and though many attempts have been made to address its many inefficiencies, nothing has come close to making an actual impact. So, what are the freight marketplace trends, and what can we learn from them?
Digital Freight Networks are evolving from load-centric and transactional to a network-centric approach focused on creating and sharing value. Leading the charge is SemiCab, a Digital Freight Ecosystem.
We are happy to announce that Gartner Inc. has recognized SemiCab as an April 2020 Cool Vendor in Supply Chain. Gartner states: Supply chain technology leaders should use this research to identify emerging vendors that can drive enhanced business value.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-haul industry has been put to the test, day after day, hour after hour. And as we go into the next few months of this crisis, the challenges will continue to pile on. The main struggle? Historic fluctuations in supply and demand. As scary as that sounds, there are solutions. A recent report from Gartner recommends to “explore digitized freight platforms as a supplementary method to acquire capacity and get better freight insights.”
SemiCab announces its partnership with Blue Yonder, where SemiCab will be providing freight capacity optimization on their Luminate Platform to help optimize the supply chain for shippers.
The long-haul freight industry suffers from various forms of waste, making the entire system inefficient. In this post, we explore lean thinking and the role it can play in reducing waste and creating opportunity in the long-haul trucking industry.
No matter the size of your freight business, getting paid is a top priority. And yet, the typical freight payment process can take anywhere between 30 to 90 days, that’s just too long. Read on for our top tips for speeding up freight payment.
There are countless things being done to keep shelves stocked, the population safe, and the economy moving during this COVID-19 crisis. With challenges presented by social distancing, health orders, travel restrictions, and a volatile market, the freight industry needs now more than ever to embrace freight tech solutions that will allow them to keep up with demand.
There are countless things to consider when choosing a load board: cost, number of loads provided, real-time updates, and so much more. Check out our guide for choosing the best load board for your needs, and learn about how a load board is a key part of modern freight commerce facilitated by SemiCab, the digital freight ecosystem.
Due to a highly fragmented market, coupled with limited use of technology and lack of transparency, the creation of a mutually beneficial digital ecosystem for the long-haul trucking industry was not feasible in the past. But today, SemiCab’s revolutionary technology is changing that.
The emergence of digital ecosystems, built on the core principle of facilitating economic activity through peer-to-peer networks, is quickly disrupting traditional business models. With increased connectivity and evolving customer expectations, it's important for businesses to reimagine their future in the context of this new digital economy. Read our blog to learn more about digital ecosystems and its potential impact on the trucking industry.
Today, drivers are stuck doing a lot of extra math to see whether the money they will make on any trip will cover the cost of empty miles. It’s time for a change. Read on to see how the industry is coming together to disrupt the antiquated model that has plagued us for decades and ensure that drivers get paid for every mile driven - no more, no less.
Trucking is the backbone of the U.S. economy. Here are some interesting facts about the freight ecosystem we are part of! Enjoy the infographic.
As one of the largest and critical industries to the health of U.S. economy, long-haul trucking with outdated approaches is due for a much-needed overhaul. While there have been attempts to address inefficiencies for decades now, they tend to only focus on issues vertically, which is restrictive and ineffective.
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