DFM Commentary:
This article claims that Cargomatic pioneered automating truckload dispatch using a mobile app in 2012. FWIW, Power2Ship was doing that 5 or 6 years earlier and their Patent was issued in 2010.
Link to Source: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-how-cargomatic-started-the-digital-brokerage-boom
Quotes from Article:
Years before Uber made its actual entrance into the trucking space with the purchase of Otto, Cargomatic launched in Los Angeles and set off a prodigious chain of events that kicked off the boon of venture capital flooding the supply chain space, changing the industry forever.
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