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Brilliant move.
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@jimcanto yes, but I think short-lived as they use their new trucking data to enter the self-driving freight market and relieve these drivers of their duties.
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Great initiative!
Some of my friends back at college along with myself had tried a similar initiative in India. Here is the product design process of the same: https://medium.com/@si.agniva/tr...
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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@agniva_si1 just read/saw about all your work. Good stuff dude. :)
Do shippers and drivers usually wait till the last minute to book transportation, such that the on-demand model makes sense here? Or does the app let you schedule shipments days/weeks in advance?
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@geoffreyweg my uncle has driven a truck for decades. If I remember correctly he said there's a huge amount of time spent waiting for a new load (trailer) at a specific destination. Periodically there's nothing to pick-up and take back either. In addition, the trucking companies have dispatchers who handle this all on the fly.
Drivers are compensated by the mile, so this process drives them nuts.
@lukethomas14 Interesting. Then presumably shippers decide to ship things on the fly? I would think they plan their shipments days/weeks in advance—given the likely high cost in preparing whatever it is they're shipping—but I guess that's not always the case
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@geoffreyweg It depends. Larger trucking outfits have more advanced logistics/technology. Smaller ones don't. 98% of trucking companies have less than 20 trucks (http://www.trucking.org/News_and...) so there's a huge amount of variance.
My uncle hauls scrap metal and they have certain routes that they bank on every week - sometimes they "get lucky" and don't have to haul back an empty trailer.
A rule of thumb I use is to look for trucks hauling empty trailers - that's generally a sign of an inefficiency in the supply chain.
@besvinick perhaps Uber has the right momentum to pull it off to become the mainstream way of handling logistics of goods. Good for Transfix as well, they've got a foot in the future business model.
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Next: Uber for farm implements!
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Brilliant! :clap:
Btw, what the name of this song?
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