Commentary: Uber Freight shows importance of people in logistics

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The recent announcement of massive layoffs and the closure of 45 offices at Uber Technologies – and in particular, its CEO’s stated commitment to re-evaluating non-core, cash-burning businesses like Uber Freight – set the logistics world abuzz.

However, I would argue that it’s not in the way contributor Ryan Schreiber described. As he makes the case for Uber as an...