Doft Launches On-demand Truck Sharing Service
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Doft, a new solution aimed at helping America’s 400,000 or so freelance and owner-operator truckers find work, announced its official nationwide launch. Targeting a market worth $80 billion, Doft – which stands for “do freight transportation” – has set its sights on being the first Uber-like service for trucks.
Similar to ridesharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, Doft connects trucks and shippers within two minutes. Although available across the U.S., many of Doft’s current drivers are based in California. The platform removes freight brokers and dispatchers and instead takes a transparent transport service fee of 4.99% from each side. This solves the dual problems of inefficiency and opaqueness which plague the industry and makes work better and more fulfilling for truck drivers who want to get out on the road.
“We are going to become a huge, twenty-first-century transportation company that will disrupt the whole logistics industry to make it more efficient,” says founder and CEO Dmitri Fedorchenko. “And, we won’t be staying on the ground, either. We want to save people and companies money and time, as well as helping the environment.”
Check out this video on the new solution:
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In the United States, there were 3.6 million ‘big rig’ trucks in operation, transporting more than 10 billion tons of freight (2015), representing 70.1 percent of total domestic tonnage shipped. Doft is looking out for freelance and owner-operator truck drivers, who account for some 400,000 of America’s truckers. These dedicated drivers generate some $80 billion each year. All too often they are ignored in favor of larger haulage companies.
The major problem that Doft solves is that, between 15-25% of the time, trucks are driving with no cargo. Not only is this bad for the environment – this causes needless emissions – but it …Read the rest of this story
