CCJ will crown its 2023 Innovator of the Year Thursday night at its Innovator Summit in Key Largo, Florida. Below is a round up of CCJ's 2022 Innovators, each a candidate for the honor of 2023 Innovator of the Year.
As part of its Innovators program, CCJ profiles a fleet each month for deploying – and in many cases, developing – innovative strategies and/or technologies that improve the operation of their business in some area (or areas); be it in recruitment and retention, maintenance, back office technologies and anything (and everything) in between.
Pittsburgh flatbed carrier JLE was CCJ's 2022 Innovator of the Year.
The CCJ Innovators program is brought to you by Bendix, Comdata, Freightliner Trucks, SkyBitz and Valvoline.
If you know a carrier that has displayed innovation, contact CCJ Chief Editor Jason Cannon at jasoncannon@randallreilly.com or 800-633-5953.
aifleet bills itself as "a tech-first carrier, rebuilding trucking from the ground up" with advanced technologies and data science routing. Based in Austin, Texas, the 40-truck dry van truckload carrier launched last year taking aim at inefficiencies in the trucking sector, where driver utilization is below 50% and driver turnover is more than 90%.
The muscle behind aifleet is a proprietary algorithm that's at the center of all the carrier's operations seeking to eliminate "as much dwell that we can on a driver's journey end-to-end, from home-to-home," said aifleet Founder and CEO Marc El Khoury said. "We need technology and a business model that is obsessed with driver happiness. And so, right now, our technology is very driver-centric. It adjusts based on driver preferences as well. You know, not all drivers want to haul the same kind of freight. Not all drivers want to go to the same cities that other drivers want. So this is what our technology does. It's very focused on our drivers and we'll continue to learn as we hopefully continue developing it and continue investing it."
