* New York - Trucking business has remained stubbornly low-tech—but this may be starting to change
-- One recent morning, Ivan Sandul, a 28-year-old truck driver from Sacramento, Calif., after driving a load of machine parts more than 3,000 miles from California and dropping it off in Canada, he was up at dawn, working the phone from a parking spot in upstate New York, trying to find a load to help begin paying the cost of his return trip home. On his fifth call, he found a freight broker looking for a driver to haul a load of metal from a nearby recycling plant to Ohio... Independent owner-operators of trucks make up about half of all truckers in the U.S.A.—by rough estimates about 250,000 drivers—and generally still rely on a system that evolved from one built on handwritten notes tacked to truck-stop bulletin boards. Typically, an independent driver searching for shipments will call intermediaries known as freight brokers and dispatchers. In return for matching them with loads, brokers take a cut—ranging from 10% to 30%—of what shippers pay drivers... The central issue the new apps seek to address is what is known as backhaul, or the trips that truck drivers must take to return to their point of origin. Because truckers get paid by the mile and typically cover their own fuel costs, they try to avoid making backhaul journeys with an empty container, called a deadhead trip... For years, truckers found backhaul loads by scanning handwritten notes pinned to bulletin boards at truck stops, known as load boards, and calling the phone numbers listed to find freight orders through brokers and dispatchers. More recently, load boards have gone online, but most still rely on middlemen to arrange a pickup...
* California - TECH-BROKERING LOADS: Mobile Apps: Info-Geolocation. Freight on mobile phones. Data collecting via internet.
-- Bryan Beshore, ex-alumnus of Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator tech incubation program, Keychain, found Keychain Logistics. The company makes an app which, it says, has been downloaded by more than 20,000 drivers. Keychain uses geolocation information, as well as data on truckers’ schedules and most commonly-traveled routes, to match carriers with loads, and the company takes between 6% and 10% of the cost of a typical shipment for its services—much less than the amount traditional brokers typically allot themselves... San Francisco-based Trucker Path Inc.’s eponymous app started this way. Over the last three years, the app has been downloaded 200,000 times by drivers, the company says. This month, the app’s maker plans to publicly launch a “marketplace” function, which will allow drivers to find freight loads on their mobile phones. Using the function, truckers will be able to enter their location into the app, specify where they want to travel next, and find nearby shippers who want to send freight along a similar route... Matt Chasen, founder and chief executive officer of uShip, a company founded in 2004 that became one of the first app developers for the trucking industry. Mr. Chasen says that uShip has between 50,000 and 70,000 drivers using its platform and charges between 10% and 20% of the cost of a load. It launched a new version of the app in February that focuses on collecting data on trucker behavior to help streamline the matching process...
(Photo courtesy of IVAN SANDUL - If you wake up too late, trucker Ivan Sandul says, you might end up wasting a working day trying to find the next shipment) -- New York, NY, USA - The WSJ, by ROBBIE WHELAN - May 7, 2015
* Nevada - OMVS’s revolutionary trucking app to gain added power and versatility
-- On the Move Systems Corp. (OMVS) is considering expanding its upcoming, on-demand "Uber for trucking" platform to include a new shared economy app to enable truckers to purchase needed products and supplies during their local and cross-country hauls. The new app would give the innovative platform added functionality, power and versatility on top of its ability to wirelessly connect carriers with local, independent truckers, providing them a way to cost-effectively market their services... Shared-economy companies with robust, option-rich mobile apps have seen their user bases grow tremendously whenever they add new features. Uber is but one success story in building a successful, shared economy mobile app. A more surprising one is Kohl’s Department Stores, which saw its mobile app user base grow by nearly 800 percent after it expanded the features it offered... OMVS’s upcoming, on-demand platform aims to take advantage of America’s rapidly growing interest in shared economy services, sales of which are expected to grow to $335 billion by 2025. The company has enjoyed recent success as it continues to build its roster of trucking partners interested in joining the platform...
Henderson, NEV, USA - Business Wire - May 11, 2015
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