Fast Company has announced the winners of its World Changing Ideas Awards, which honors the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice, or economic inequality. Convoy is proud to join the list as the winner in the…
Category: Sustainability
Carbon Emissions Savings: 1,700,207 pounds and counting
The heart of the Convoy Digital Freight Network focuses on the use of technology to build the most efficient supply chain possible, lowering costs for shippers, increasing earnings for drivers, all while saving our environment through the elimination of empty miles. Today, on our one year anniversary of launching Automated Reloads, we are revealing our Carbon Emissions…
Addressing urgent demand at food banks during COVID-19
In an effort to address the growing food shortages facing millions of Americans impacted by COVID-19, companies like Land O’Lakes Inc are partnering with Convoy to donate critical items to food banks across the nation.
A new sustainability program with Feeding America to reduce waste and rescue food from supply chains
Today we are excited to announce a new collaboration with Feeding America®, the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, to deliver consumable food and beverages to food banks across the country instead of disposing of it in landfills. Convoy’s Digital Freight Network will now use Feeding America’s MealConnect technology which will enable truckers across…
AWS Fix This Podcast featuring Convoy
Today’s Fix This podcast by AWS features Aaron Terrazas, Director of Economic Research at Convoy and Jennifer Wong, Director of Sustainability at Convoy to share how Convoy is addressing the inefficiencies in freight and helping their customers make progress in achieving their corporate sustainability goals. Listen here Podcast transcript Ray Rogers: I’m Ray Rogers. Brad Kepler:…
A New Sustainability Program to Support Supplier Diversity
Advancing carrier diversity means creating a carrier network that reflects the diversity of our customers and their consumers. Our carrier program identifies opportunities for Convoy to recognize and promote historically underrepresented and underutilized groups among our network of carriers.
Enabling Carbon Reduction Goals with Transparency in Scope 3 Carbon Emissions
Shippers are making carbon reduction an explicit aspect of the procurement processes for their supply chain. But when it comes to carbon reduction, real progress requires real transparency. Better tracking of carbon starts by providing greater transparency on the carbon footprint of services and products. Only by accounting for the full footprint will organizations and…
Transforming the way we transport freight – the road to endless capacity and zero waste
We are at an opportunistic moment in freight. Today, smartphones are in the vast majority of trucks, automation and machine learning capabilities are being deployed at scale, and companies of every size are trying to optimize supply chains to improve their bottom lines and reduce their carbon footprints. Even so, the global freight industry continues…
Automated Reloads Are Reducing Empty Mile Carbon Emissions by 45%
Today, Convoy is proud to share that bundling loads through our Automated Reloads program is yielding a 45% decrease in CO2 emissions from trucks running empty less often. Launched nationwide in June, Automated Reloads algorithmically groups multiple full-truckload shipments for carriers — minimizing empty miles, eliminating time wasted between loads, and lowering the resulting unnecessary…
What you need to know about empty miles in trucking
Waste matters. For nearly every industry, waste contributes to higher costs. But in the freight industry, the stakes are even higher. In freight, waste means that more fuel is consumed, more carbon is emitted, and drivers spend more hours sitting idle. Empty miles are the primary form of freight waste. One of the most common…
