UBER Freight, the cargo spin-off of the now-ubiquitous ride-sharing application, is now serving California, Arizona, Illinois, Georgia and North and South Carolina, reports American Shipper.
The Texas company that started a year ago, recently said it is now forging connections between shippers and truckers across the United States.
Eric Berdinis, senior product lead at Uber Freight, told the San Francisco Chronicle the expansion 'gives us the ability to think about the whole US as the first major network for Uber Freight'.
And after spending its first year focusing primarily on empowering individual, independent owner-operators, Uber Freight now is turning its attention to multi-truck fleet carriers.
For shippers the bigger question is whether domestic trucking has enough drivers, let alone available truck capacity, to satisfy surging demand.
And Uber Freight is by no means the only game in town. Startups like Convoy, Transfix and Cargomatic, among many others, all have attempted to capitalise on the elusive 'Uber for freight' model with varying degrees of success.
One, San Francisco's Shyp, shut down in March, four years after its launch. Shyp's downfall, it is said, was due to its failure to map out a clear path to consistent profits in a market in a competitive market.
The Texas company that started a year ago, recently said it is now forging connections between shippers and truckers across the United States.
Eric Berdinis, senior product lead at Uber Freight, told the San Francisco Chronicle the expansion 'gives us the ability to think about the whole US as the first major network for Uber Freight'.
And after spending its first year focusing primarily on empowering individual, independent owner-operators, Uber Freight now is turning its attention to multi-truck fleet carriers.
For shippers the bigger question is whether domestic trucking has enough drivers, let alone available truck capacity, to satisfy surging demand.
And Uber Freight is by no means the only game in town. Startups like Convoy, Transfix and Cargomatic, among many others, all have attempted to capitalise on the elusive 'Uber for freight' model with varying degrees of success.
One, San Francisco's Shyp, shut down in March, four years after its launch. Shyp's downfall, it is said, was due to its failure to map out a clear path to consistent profits in a market in a competitive market.