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Uber Freight boss says 'we're living in shipping Armageddon,' and it's going to take the entire industry to fix it
"We're ordering more and more packages ... but the supply chain is completely imbalanced," Uber Fre…
Mary Hanbury
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Uber stock slumps despite first quarterly operating profit ever
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company achieved its first quarter of operating profit and its first…
Phil Rosen
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Uber bans most under 25s from driving for the company in California because of rising insurance costs
Uber's new rule does not affect under-25s who are already signed up as drivers for the company. Onl…
Tom Carter
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Uber's trucking division has hemorrhaged hundreds of millions of dollars. Here's why the tech giant is betting another $200 million on freight and opening a dedicated Uber Freight HQ.
To that extent, Uber Freight has a suite of services aimed at improving truckers' lives - including…
Rachel Premack
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Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal explains why there's 'no obvious solution' for our never-ending supply chain predicament
Supply chains underpin our society. Between a labor shortage, computer hacks, and other disruptions…
Rachel Premack
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Uber Freight is expanding to Canada - and it's a brilliant move to gobble up more of the trucking industry
"We see massive international opportunities for Uber Freight, and we're excited to scale globally a…
Rachel Premack
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Uber Freight has altered the fine print in how truckers are paid for detention, and drivers are frustrated with the change
"Consistent with our carrier and driver first commitment, we recently updated our detention policie…
Rachel Premack
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Uber Freight is giving weekly $20 Eats credits to truck drivers on its platform because their food options are suddenly disappearing
"The freight industry is the lifeblood of the economy," Ron wrote. "That has never been more appare…
Rachel Premack
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Here's how much Uber, Softbank and Tencent can possibly gain from Didi’s IPO — the largest Chinese share sale since Alibaba
China’s ridesharing behemoth, Didi Chuxing, is finally ready to go public after years of speculatio…
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Amazon reportedly hopes to to double its delivery fleet this year by investing in smaller trucking companies that would exclusively serve the e-commerce giant
Amazon wants to train hundreds of truck drivers who would work only for the company as it continues…
Katie Canales
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Uber is still losing a lot of money
The ride-hailing app doubled its bookings over the worst quarter of the pandemic, but still burned …
Dominick Reuter
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Uber has quietly launched its own 'Uber for trucking' marketplace called Uber Freight
"Maybe some might be skeptical that it's happening next week, but if you think 50 years from now th…
Biz Carson
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Uber Freight is helping combat a $1.3 billion problem that the trucking industry has ignored for years
Allowing truckers to rate facilities will promote "transparent and collaborative environment" in tr…
Rachel Premack
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Convoy just got another $400 million to fight Uber Freight for control of the digital-freight market. Its ex-Amazon cofounder revealed to us the next steps for the $2.75 billion company's quest to dominate truck brokerage.
If our business was, let's take any freight we can get, there's tons of freight going from random p…
Rachel Premack
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Trucking is in a recession. The CEO of a $3.7 billion freight giant revealed why he's not worried about 2020 - and why he says Uber Freight-like businesses won't gobble up his business.
Dave Yeager: In trucking, a lot of capacity was added last year. 2018 was really a year that in my …
Rachel Premack
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Uber reports a $1.78 billion loss as its food-delivery business outshines rides for the first time
The ride-hailing giant was forced to lean heavily on Uber Eats, which saw a huge increase in demand…
Graham Rapier
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Uber Freight has nabbed execs from Airbnb and Box, plans to double its staff this year, and hinted that international expansion is next
Last month, Uber Freight introduced facility ratings where truck drivers can score a warehouse or r…
Rachel Premack
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Some describe the forecasted $54 billion digital freight marketplace industry as the 'Uber for trucking' - but the leaders of one of the space's buzziest startups says that's not what they want to accomplish
"When it's a platform that you're interacting with that fills 60% of your back hauls across 80% of …
Rachel Premack
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This former Uber engineer used TikTok to give California truckers a voice during the AB5 protests. Now he's ready to help the industry further.
Kevin Huang started driving trucks and posting TikToks during the Port of Oakland protests: "There'…
Kelly Nguyen
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We asked Uber Freight head Lior Ron everything about the tech giant's push into trucking - from profitability to matching algorithms to tackling the trucker shortage. Here's the full interview.
Ron: No, I wouldn't say there's a shortage. I mean if you think about the two main constituencies,…