CCJ: AI is launching the transportation industry forward

Optym Chief Strategy Officer Chris Torrence joined a panel at the 2023 Trimble Insight Tech Conference + Expo to discuss how artificial intelligence is launching the transportation industry forward.

Angel Coker Jones wrote for Commercial Carrier Journal, “Driver attrition is hovering around 100%, said Chris Torrence, chief strategy officer at Optym, which provides optimization solutions for transportation companies.

“What if you just had more time to talk to those drivers,” Torrence asked. “What if we enable 80% of that operator’s job that’s just redundant and repetitive, let the calculator take over, and then free up that time to develop relationships with drivers and see how retention rates improve? That’s human centric.””

Read more from CCJ here.