‘Virtual Truckers’ Vie For Freight Business
The Internet is having a major impact on the way trucking companies do business by making it easier to communicate with customers and reducing the time it takes to process transactions.
Its founders say the venture will use the Internet to provide a full complement of transportation and fulfillment services and, in effect, “transform the LTL industry into the e-commerce age.”
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Now a group of trucking executives, backed by $3 million in venture capital, has launched a business that uses the Internet to compete directly against asset-based transportation service providers.
The business, called freightPro.com, contracts with independent carriers, warehouses and drivers to provide less-than-truckload freight transportation and uses Web technology to do everything from rating shipments and scheduling pickups to tracking loads and billing customers.
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