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Lane One Transport Automates Carrier Communication and Qualification with Integrated Parade and Descartes Solutions

ATLANTA, April 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Texas-based Lane One Transport, a leader in freight brokerage, is automating inbound carrier communication and qualification using Parade CoDriver, a recently enhanced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered carrier engagement solution, integrated with the Descartes Aljex™ transportation management system (TMS) and Descartes MyCarrierPortal™ carrier onboarding system. The combined solution helps Lane One accelerate load coverage, gain smarter pricing insights and mitigate the risk of carrier fraud.

“With Parade’s new AI capabilities integrated into our Descartes Aljex TMS, we’ve increased our digital freight coverage to 30% while handling 1,200 loads monthly with just three reps,” said Chet Hebner, Director of Transportation & Logistics at Lane One. “The platform automatically processes carrier communications, captures pricing data, and ensures we only work with qualified carriers. This has dramatically improved our efficiency while giving us better insights into carrier capacity and pricing across our network.”

Replacing traditionally manual communications, the combined solution allows freight brokers to process more carrier interactions with fewer resources while building a comprehensive digital view of their carrier network. With Parade CoDriver, brokerages automate carrier communication across both phone and email channels, capturing real-time carrier offers and pricing data directly within Descartes Aljex. With automated carrier qualification capabilities, Descartes MyCarrierPortal ensures brokers engage only pre-qualified carriers, which reduces inefficiencies and minimizes the risk of using non-compliant carriers.

“By integrating our agentic Voice AI and Email AI technology with Descartes’ industry-leading brokerage solutions, we’re creating an intelligent automation layer where carrier interactions are efficiently processed within the transportation management workflows,” said Anthony Sutardja, CEO and Co-Founder of Parade. “Beyond simple automation, the combined solutions enable smarter, data-driven capacity decisions and create a new standard for carrier engagement and operational excellence in freight brokerage.”

“We’re pleased Lane One is further automating carrier engagement and qualification workflows using the integrated solutions,” said Dan Cicerchi, General Manager, Transportation Management at Descartes. “With Parade’s innovative AI technology, we’re expanding the capabilities of our transportation management solutions and empowering brokerages of all sizes to book more loads, better secure their carrier networks and significantly reduce manual work.”

About Parade

Parade is the leader in capacity management solutions for freight brokerages. The company's platform combines AI-powered carrier engagement capabilities with comprehensive capacity intelligence and an extensive partner integration network. Parade’s CoDriver AI technology automates carrier communications across email and phone channels, enabling brokerages to increase margins, improve carrier relationships, and scale operations efficiently. Trusted by leading 3PLs and digital freight brokers, Parade's platform has processed over $40B in truckload transactions to date. Learn more at www.parade.ai.

About Descartes

Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, track and help improve the safety, performance and compliance of delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com, and connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Cara Strohack
Tel: 226-750-8050
cstrohack@descartes.com

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws (“forward-looking statements”) that relate to Descartes’ transportation management solution offerings and potential benefits derived therefrom; and other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, “Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results” in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada including Descartes’ most recently filed management’s discussion and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purposes of providing information about management’s current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.


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