uShip, Trucking Partners Launch LTL Spot Rate Marketplace

Shippers have a new way to book less-than-truckload freight and compare LTL truck rates — an online LTL spot rate marketplace launched by uShip and 16 asset-based LTL carriers. The spot market gives LTL trucking companies a new way to reach smaller to midsize shippers and dynamically adjust non-contract pricing by lane, transit time and… Read More

YPT Innovator Series — Ship Anything, Anytime, Anywhere with uShip

Today we talk to uShip’s Timur Eligulashvili, VP of Commercial Products.  Timur has over 10 years of experience in the transportation logistics industry.  Before uShip he held several roles in logistics including analyst, sales, product manager, and even company founder.  We talk to Timur about how uShip’s innovative marketplace has changed the logistics industry, the current… Read More

What Your Developers can Learn from uShip’s Strategy

By Marleen Linares January 8, 2014 uShip’s VP of Engineering Nick Parker’s top priority is the lifestyle and happiness of his developers. That’s why he and his team are one of a few companies using a process called continuous deployment. Instead of pushing code into production every two weeks, like most companies, uShip’s development team… Read More

uShip: Why Vehicle Transport is ‘Deal-Closer,’ Not ‘Deal-Killer’

Thu, 12/19/2013 – 02:00 | AUSTIN, Texas By Auto Remarketing Editor Joe Overby Vehicle shipping is not a “deal-killer” in auto sales. Rather, as uShip’s Dean Xeros suggests, it can actually serve as a “deal-closer.” That’s the crux of how a relatively new product from the company called uShip PRO can help dealers turn vehicle… Read More

Opinion: Transportation Tech’s Tipping Point

By Jim Bramlett General Manager Less-Than-Truckload Freight uShip Inc. There’s no denying that technology is rapidly changing the shipping and logistics industry. These changes are making warehousing more efficient, dispatching faster, planning easier and communications smoother — and that’s just the tip of the technological iceberg. Even so, as an old-school industry, it’s not uncommon… Read More

uShip plans to connect carriers, shippers directly via ‘instant’ rates

When looking at Jim Bramlett’s 36-year career in transportation you see how the landscape has changed for the trucking industry, particularly in the less-than-truckload sector. He began working for an asset carrier, Yellow Freight System, and later moved over to the non-asset side with Yellow Logistics Services. Later, he worked for software companies to help… Read More

uShip launches spot market for LTL carriers

UShip, well known for its “starring role” in the popular A&E series, Shipping Wars, has launched a new service specifically for LTL carriers. The LTL spot-rate market is designed to give carriers the opportunity to publish real-time rates for shippers that are posting freight on the uShip marketplace. According to Jim Bramlett, general manager LTL freight… Read More

uShip Integrates SaferWatch

Online freight exchange uShip announced it is integrating the SaferWatch carrier compliance and risk management software across its shipping marketplace, including uShip PRO, its commercial freight platform. Each carrier profile on uShip links to federal government sites such as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’sSafety and Fitness Electronic Records System, so freight brokers and shippers… Read More

Commercial Carrier Journal: Reviewing uShip With Skin in the Game

As editors, we regularly get opportunities to test new products. For instance, my colleague Jack Roberts travels to locations across the United States and even Europe to test-drive models from Freightliner, Paccar and other truck manufacturers. I mostly write about technology so, by comparison, my testing opportunities are simpler and, might I add, less risky… Read More