Uship

UShip.com is an online freight exchange for transport services. Households as well as businesses can objects in different categories, such as Setting cars, boats or heavy industrial units that are to be transported on uShip. Trucking companies then have the opportunity to bid for these items. The company works with a feedback rating system for both parties - for trucking companies as well as for shipping customers. This is similar to the rating system of eBay.

For some categories, including boats, cars and LTL loads are to be in advance transport commandments, which come from various sources, appears. Based on these fixed shipping offers, customers can book their transportation behalf, directly or optionally wait for bids by forwarders.

The process is the eBay "buy it now " tool similar. The offered reverse auction format, the page has to lower target transport costs by freight forwarders and road transport find jobs and thus can fill spare capacity.

History

CEO and Founder Matthew Chasen had in 2001 for the first time the idea of ​​founding uShip. The idea resulted from the fact that his mother had trouble finding a shipper for the transportation of their dresser. When he ran a half-empty truck at a later time in the year to the university, he realized that he could fill the spare capacity in his van with items from other people who are still looking for a carrier and its job is on a similar route ( ibid ).

Matt Chasen handed over his university in Austin, Texas his idea of a uShip various business competitions, won first place at the University of North Texas and was winner of the Venture Labs Investment Competition in 2004.

Shortly after this started uship.com and received funding from Benchmark Capital in 2005.

Partnerships

In 2009, uShip entered into a partnership with Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - the world's largest auction house for heavy equipment.

A partnership with TerraPass uShip allows to calculate the monthly CO2 emissions of carriers that participate in this program.

The company was incorporated in 2012 in a reality show of the A & E Network. Independent Trucker have the chance to unusual transport orders to bid and win this.

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