Together with Swedish waste management company Renova, Volvo Trucks is testing and researching automated vehicles for refuse handling. According to Volvo, the automated systems being tested are in principle the same as those fitted to the autonomous Volvo truck operating in the Kristineberg Mine in northern Sweden since autumn 2016.
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The annual Compass Awards recognize excellence in marketing, customer communication and sales activities within the transportation and logistics industries.
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Owner-operators and small fleets can find loads via their mobile devices. Photo: Aether Films, courtesy Uber Freight
Owner-operators and small fleets can find loads via their mobile devices. Photo: Aether Films, courtesy Uber Freight
With the official launch of Uber Freight, Uber is looking to transform the world of freight transport much as it has changed the world of taxis with its ride-sharing app.
After years of other companies trying to offer what are often nicknamed “Uber for trucking” freight-matching services, Uber itself is launching a load-matching app it says will make “logistics and transportation as magical as pressing a button and getting a taxi,” according to Eric Berdinis, product lead for Uber Freight.
Berdinis emphasized in an interview with HDT that Uber Freight will address many of the pain points faced by owner-operators and small fleets (up to about 10 trucks) as they strive to keep up a flow of well-paying loads and keep their trucks moving profitably.
Rumors have swirled about the new service since Uber set up a minimal website for it late last year and hired a number of people from existing brokerage companies. One thing that Uber Freight is not — at least not yet — is shippers using an app to call a self-driving truck to pick up their load. Nor is it running its own fleet of trucks. A widely circulated photo of a rig with an Uber Freight logo on the trailer, recently tweeted by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, was nothing but a marketing prop, a backdrop for Uber Freight's recent owner-operator recruiting and driver appreciation events.
"It is pretty transferable to the freight world, where there are infinite variables and infinite things that go wrong.”
“Uber has expanded from moving people to moving food with the Uber Eats product to moving things with the Uber Rush product, and Uber Freight is the next foray into the world of transportation and logistics,” Berdinis said.
While a new report issued this week by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) highlighted how rising traffic congestion in the U.S. is becoming a more expensive problem for the trucking industry, it is a problem also being aggravated in part by the ongoing shortage of truck parking across the country as well.
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