Uber Freight

Clients can optimize transportation spend while managing logistics constraints, leveraging carrier network and insights.

Our newly combined organization brings Uber Freight and Transplace products and services together under the new Uber Freight Platform, a first-of-its-kind logistics solution and partner that unlocks unprecedented supply chain reliability, resiliency, and optimization.

It’s clear that everyone in the supply chain needs better options to keep goods moving and evolve their business operations in 2022 and beyond, this industry urgency is converging with important advancements in autonomous trucks and marketplace technologies, providing us with a preview of what’s ahead.

A new report by Uber Freight envisions a future where autonomous trucks and human drivers operate alongside one another in a hybrid network to ease the burden of increased freight demand, enhance truck drivers’ quality of life, and create more value for everyone in the supply chain.

These supply chain partners offer comprehensive planning and execution for all shipments, boosting efficiency and lowering prices.

In this "making the case guide" we show how, by providing a high level of logistics services, expertise, and technological prowess, fourth-party logistics providers or 4PLs allow companies to focus on what matters most instead of dealing with supply chain management complexities.

In this paper, we demonstrate why trucking is the faster route to commercialize and scale self-driving technology, we then lay out the hub-to-hub model, which will allow autonomous trucks to operate alongside those driven by people.

The companies said that the objective of the partnership is to connect their respective technologies and deploy autonomous trucks at scale on the Uber Freight network, while meshing Waymo’s autonomous driving technology with Uber Freight’s network and marketplace technology.

The July announcement that San Francisco-based Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, was acquiring Frisco, Texas-based Transplace, a non-asset-based third-party logistics services provider, for roughly $2.25 billion and consisting of up to $750 million in common stock of Uber, was made official today.

As the initial shock, or surprise, of last week’s announcement that San Francisco-based Uber Freight announced it is acquiring Frisco, Texas-based Transplace.

The transaction will create an industry-leading combined Freight Technology Operating System to enable a comprehensive end-to-end shipper-to-carrier solution, unlocking new levels of efficiency and service.

Earlier today, San Francisco-based Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, announced it is acquiring Frisco, Texas-based Transplace, a non-asset-based third-party logistics services provider, for roughly $2.25 billion and consisting of up to $750 million in common stock of Uber.

Company officials said in a blog posting this move is aligned with its objective of “becoming a one-stop shop solution for shippers.”

Much in the same way you’d make a friend: remove friction, remain honest, and show up to deliver. In thinking through the user needs for both shippers and carriers, we’ve learned that transparency matters.

Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Uber Freight a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, announced it has rolled out a new self-service Shipper Platform north of the border in Canada.