Long Beach, California-based NEXT Trucking recently announced product and program updates as part of its tech stack improvements following its merger with Chicago-based digital freight broker CDL-1000. These updates are targeted at improving the experience for both shippers and carriers by leveraging the combined companies’ resources and industry expertise.NEXT Trucking began as a FreightTech pioneer back in 2015 with a focus on connecting full truckload and less-than-truckload carriers with shippers through an online platform and mobile application. By 2019, the company has added drayage as part of its logistics offering and expanded its technology platform.In an interview with FreightWaves, Chris North, product marketing manager at NEXT, talked about the newest updates and his tenure with the company. With NEXT since 2016, North helped build the over-the-road business and technology before helping the company diversify into drayage.“We built our OTR brokerage and tech platform to a point where it was sustainable and doing well,” said North. “I’d been managing drayage and OTR shipments since joining NEXT, so expanding into drayage technology was a natural progression for us. Of course, drayage is a heck of a lot more complex than truckload, but here we are almost five years later with the most advanced drayage technology in the industry.”The path to drayage success involves integrations due to the extra complexities among multiple parties

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