Digital freight marketplaces that connect shippers and truckers online are turning toward more physical operations by offering the equipment that cargo carriers need to move loads. Freight-matching startups Convoy and Uber Technologies Inc. ’s Freight division recently launched fleets of trailers that shippers can preload with goods to speed up cargo transfers for drivers and […]
May 15, 2019
Many of the inefficiencies that ail the freight hauling industry find their roots within the market’s prevailing opacity; a majority of the interactions between freight brokers and carriers never get recorded – digitally or otherwise. This disconnect in information makes it a tiresome process, with freight brokers needing to rely on tribal knowledge and inadequate