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Flashback: How the trucking industry can reduce its carbon footprint

World Changing Ideas

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Convoy: A Startup Company Addressing the Transportation Industry's Efficiency Issues

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg championed the plan as a great return on investment. He also said it could be partially funded by carbon pricing, which would help offset costs and obviously reduce carbon too. Reducing carbon emissions has long been a part of improving efficiency within the transportation sector. For years, the trucking industry could only plan better in order to improve efficiency. But then technology leapfrogged forward with the advent of smartphones. Jennifer Wong originally got her start in communications and tech startups. She's now the head of sustainability at Convoy, a trucking software company.

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