Bill Driegert

Convoy, J.B. Hunt y Uber Freight piden una API de programación estandarizada 

A medida que las empresas FreightTech ponen remedio a los procesos fragmentados del sector, los líderes del espacio han descubierto que, aunque luchan por la misma causa, la falta de estandarización de los datos comerciales entre los participantes de la cadena de suministro está socavando sus esfuerzos.

Uno de estos procesos fragmentados es la programación de citas de transporte.  

Según Dan Lewis, cofundador y CEO de la plataforma digital de transporte de mercancías Convoy, “La programación de...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-j-b-hunt-y-uber-freight-piden-una-api-de-programacion-estandarizada

Convoy, J.B. Hunt and Uber Freight call for standardized scheduling API

As FreightTech companies remedy fragmented industry processes, leaders in the space have found that while they are fighting for the same cause, lack of trading data standardization among supply chain participants is undermining their efforts.

One of these fragmented processes is transportation appointment scheduling. 

According to Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight platform Convoy, “Scheduling appointments at facilities is one of the most common activities in trucking, but it is...

Viewpoint: The freight execution technology revolution is here

This commentary was written by Bill Driegert, co-founder of Uber Freight. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

For as long as I’ve been in freight, it has been an opaque industry. Carriers, brokers and shippers have always lacked information, as pricing and capacity data were historically gathered through brute force: lots of phone calls, emails and parsing through load boards. We are well into a...

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Uber Freight head: API requests for market pricing up 150% during pandemic (with video)

Bill Driegert believes that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating an irreversible digitization of the transportation and logistics industry, and that shipper behavior, technology adoption and network design will enter a “new normal” after the crisis.

Tuesday afternoon, Driegert, Uber Freight’s co-founder and head of operations, appeared on FreightWavesTV during a wide-ranging coronavirus update for the transportation and logistics industry.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event that has been...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-freight-head-api-requests-for-market-pricing-up-150-during-pandemic-with-video

Pricing transparency eases marketplace friction, says Uber Freight’s Bill Driegert

Every second counts in the freight industry, especially during a pandemic, said Bill Driegert, Uber Freight co-founder and head of operations.

Driegert said when freight volumes were spiking in late March because consumers were hoarding supermarket staples, Uber Freight was able to help a shipper set up an application programming interface (API).

“As the market was surging, we had one enterprise shipper who reached out to get an API set up; we were able to get the shipper set up in four hours,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pricing-transparency-eases-marketplace-friction-says-uber-freights-bill-driegert

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