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Vancouver startup launches door-to-door FTL-by-rail shipping service from five of the seven largest railroads in the U.S. and Canada, opening easy access to significantly lower long-haul prices and low-emission freight…

[Updated in June 2023] If you are in the business of shipping goods across the USA or Canada using land transport, you’re in the right place. You are concerned about…

Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt will be speaking on June 6th, 2019 about disruptive clean technologies in freight at GreenTech 2019, Green Marine’s 12th annual conference. The conference will be taking…

Learn Freight Terms & Lingo with Freightera! Updated August 2022 [caption id="attachment_2157" align="alignnone" width="630"] Time to Learn Freight Terms - Infographics by Freightera![/caption] Reefer: A refrigerated truck, railroad car, or…

Today, May The First 2019, is an important day for us. It may be just a regular hump day for most businesses, but May 1st has always been a significant…

What is a heavy haul? [Updated June 2022] ‘Heavy Haul’ as a term in freight describes a shipment carrying an unusually large and wide load.  For example, manufacturing equipment that…

This EarthDay, 100 Clean50 Award Winners and Sustainability Leaders from Canada, including Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt, called on fellow Canadians in business, government, and every walk of life to take…

Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt was selected as a keynote speaker for the 2019 CleanTech Innovation Showcase at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle on June 24 Please join us…

Please join us at the upcoming CONNECT 2019 | Supply Chain + Management + Technology event in Bothell on May 17th!   Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt will be speaking with thought leaders…

Silpa Paul, Frost & Sullivan commercial vehicles industry analyst, mentions Freightera among key automated-on-demand solutions in her article on trucks.com earlier this week and states that we are entering the…