New San Fran Area App Links Shippers and Truckers

As the sharing economy increasingly transforms commercial transportation, consider what’s happening in the San Francisco area in which a new, B2B app from Cargomatic linking shippers and truckers.

Cargomatic’s web and mobile apps connect shippers to nearby local truckers who have available freight capacity. The technology platform is transforming B2B logistics by bringing new efficiency and transparency to the $82 billion dollar local U.S. trucking industry.

“The San Francisco Bay Area is the heart of technological innovation, and also an enormous transportation hub, so bringing Cargomatic here was a natural fit,” says Jonathan Kessler, co-founder and CEO of Cargomatic.

Cargomatic has already been embraced by hundreds of businesses in the country’s two largest metro regions — Southern California and New York City — where service was launched in January 2014 and August 2015, respectively.

“The stores that buy our toys don’t expect same-day service. But since we
Cargomatic’s work to alleviate congestion at the Port of Los Angeles this year has been praised by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, and was highlighted by port officials during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on emerging transportation technologies in July in Washington, D.C.

Category: Connected Fleet News, Featured, General Update