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Understanding Uber’s rise in the transportation industry (with video)

Craig Fuller and Mike Isaac on the rise of Uber.

“The ride-sharing business has been decimated,” says Mike Isaac, New York Times technology reporter and best-selling author of “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.”

Isaac joined FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller for a special Fuller Speed Ahead episode Thursday on the opening day of the FreightWaves LIVE @HOME virtual conference.

Isaac and Fuller discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought ride-sharing to a halt but sent the food delivery business soaring. Fuller noted the role that...

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From the founders of Uber Freight: A ‘shared source of truth’ syncing transportation and customer service

ISO, a new business from the founders of Uber Freight, aims to help shippers manage vendor compliance and on-time performance metrics.

Brian Cristol and Charlie Bergevin have come a long way since 2015, when they didn’t know what LTL (less-than-truckload) meant and hung out at a truck stop to learn what the pain points were for drivers and shippers. 

From that fact-finding mission, the pair co-founded Uber Freight, the digital brokerage giant housed at parent company Uber (NYSE: UBER).

Five years...

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