Weather Optics Partnership Announcement
WeatherOptics, a leader in weather intelligence and critical event management, today announced that Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE: KNX), one of the largest trucking companies in North America, has selected their platform to enhance safety across its fleet of more than 17,000 vehicles. By leveraging WeatherOptics’ cutting-edge weather and road risk intelligence, Knight-Swift aims to optimize safety for drivers navigating challenging conditions and improving operational efficiency.
With a vast network of drivers covering 1.6 billion miles of roadway per year and operating across 60 terminals throughout North America, Knight-Swift understands the importance of working to mitigate weather-related risks and improve driver safety. Through this new partnership, Knight-Swift will access WeatherOptics’ comprehensive weather intelligence platform, including real-time road conditions and automated driver warnings. This will better enable drivers to make informed decisions and navigate hazardous weather conditions.
“At Knight-Swift, we are continuously looking for technology solutions that facilitate better informed, impactful decision making,” said David Tillman, SVP of Safety at Knight-Swift. “With WeatherOptics, we feel we’ve found a partner that provides cutting-edge technology solutions including weather insights that will allow us to effectively manage our fleet through challenging weather conditions.”
WeatherOptics’ platform provides a unique service to large supply chain and transportation companies, like Knight-Swift, by delivering hyper-local weather data powered by their AI weather model HYPERR and translating that data into insights that are specific to logistics operations. That includes Impact Risk Scores, Intelligent Weather Routing, and real-time road condition updates that highlight hazardous roadways ahead of time. HYPERR has shown to improve weather forecast accuracy by up to 40% compared to traditional forecast models, especially when it comes to convective events like heavy thunderstorms with strong winds. This empowers companies like Knight-Swift to be proactive, and to respond to weather-related events more effectively.
“We are ecstatic to partner with Knight-Swift to improve safety and reduce weather-related risks for their fleet,” said Scott Pecoriello, Co-founder and CEO at WeatherOptics. “As one of the largest trucking companies in the country, Knight-Swift’s adoption of WeatherOptics demonstrates the value of our real-time, actionable weather intelligence in keeping drivers safe and operations running smoothly.”
This new relationship is the latest example of how industry leaders are turning to WeatherOptics for innovative solutions that enhance safety, minimize risk, and drive operational success.
About WeatherOptics
WeatherOptics is at the forefront of weather risk and impact intelligence, focused on predicting how weather impacts critical business and supply chain operations. The startup works with some of the largest supply chain and transportation companies in North America to enhance the safety and efficiency of core business operations, particularly when moving goods, amid increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather conditions.
