In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry came to the realization that, in order to get to a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. "The key issues facing the industry are capacity, visibility, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages and the antiquated systems and applications that enable these problems to only get worse," Sky, who serves as Rose Rocket's CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. "Like the way customer relationship management became table stakes technology in the past decades, the TMS is a system of truth for transportation companies, and the industry is rapidly adopting our software to modernize their business operations."
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Inside a ransomware attack on a small trucking company
Manager describes how hackers breached computers and got into the transportation management system 3,529 4 minutes read
George got the email a week after the ransomware attack on the small trucking and logistics company he manages. It contained screenshots from within the firm’s transportation management system, or TMS, the digital nerve center that orchestrates the movement of trucks and freight.
The hackers sent the screenshots among other stolen data. They aimed to pressure the 25-truck operation into paying a $300,000 ransom in exchange for a promise not to leak them.
The prospect of the leak worried George, but the revelation that hackers had accessed the TMS was especially troubling. Even though they appeared to do nothing beyond taking the screenshots, they were in a position to subvert trucking operations.
AscendTMS customers now can search for Convoy loads within platform
Integration provides seamless experience for fleets using Convoy’s platform to book loads 621 2 minutes read AscendTMS has announced an integration with Convoy, allowing joint customers to seamlessly find and book Convoy loads within the AscendTMS transportation management system. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Carriers that utilize InMotion Global’s AscendTMS and search for and book loads on Convoy’s digital freight platform now will benefit from an integration between the platforms.
It is the latest benefit InMotion Global has added to the AscendTMS transportation management system to make the task of managing fleets easier. The free AscendTMS platform now allows carriers to easily manage their back offices, reserve parking for drivers and even book shipment-based cargo insurance. The cloud-based AscendTMS is available for shippers, brokers and carriers.