Mobile Apps Get Picked Up by Independent Truckers for Better Routes

One recent morning, Ivan Sandul, a 28-year-old truck driver from Sacramento, Calif., found himself wishing there was an app to make his job easier.

After driving a load of machine parts more than 3,000 miles from California and dropping it off in Canada, he was up at dawn, working the phone from a parking spot in upstate New York, trying to find a load to help begin paying the cost of his return trip home. On his fifth call, he found a freight broker looking for a driver to haul a load of metal from a nearby recycling plant to Ohio.

“I said, ‘I’ll take it. I’m not going to wait any longer,’” Mr. Sandul said. “’I have to get moving.’”
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(Wall Street Journal – Logistics Report)