Signals from the road

Around 70% of logistics decision-makers expect to outsource more within five years. Here's what the asset-light shift means, why it's happening now, and the honest risk of getting it half-right.

Autonomous delivery robots are scaling fast in cities, even in Finnish winters. Here's why most companies can't adopt them alone, what running a robot fleet actually involves, and where the technology still hits its limits.

A guide for one-van owner-operators on filling idle days without joining a gig platform — run your existing business on DubOS for free, keep 100% of your own jobs, and take optional work to fill downtime.

A 3PL, a carrier, and a Neocarrier solve different problems. Here's how to tell them apart, and five questions that reveal which one you're really talking to.

A plain-language checklist for evaluating a city logistics partner — what to verify before signing, the red flags to watch for, and the one question most buyers forget to ask.

A plain guide to what "buying AI" actually means in logistics — from back office automation to agentic logistics and physical AI — and how to tell value creation from another dashboard.

In 2021, four friends from Vantaa started a company with their summer-job savings. A local newspaper met them when they were the young team behind Bird's e-scooters. Here's what happened next — and how a scooter contract turned into a Neocarrier.

A Neocarrier is a logistics operator that builds its fleet and its software as one system, under single ownership. Here's what the term means, why it's different from a carrier, a broker, or a fleet-software vendor — and why we coined it.

CSRD makes transport a reporting obligation, and for most shippers outsourced city delivery sits in Scope 3. Here’s what’s required — and how to get carrier data accurate enough to pass assurance.