Media Coverage

With nearly 6 out of 10 truckers relying on mobile phones and wireless service to grow their businesses, uShip’s app for iPhone and Android smartphones can help them discover new business while on the road. Based on a transporter’s GPS location, active shipments nearby are displayed on screen. Using the touch screen app, carriers can… Read More

uShip, an online transport marketplace, announced the results of an online survey of users confirms truckers’ growing dependence on mobile phones, apps and wireless services when running their businesses: Nearly 6 in 10 truckers are conducting more of their business through mobile phones this year compared to 2010. With uShip’s latest application (or “app”) for… Read More

5:22 PM, Jul. 26, 2011 TIMOTHY MEINCH The downside to a long-distance relationship is the distance. While juggling my final semester of college, freelance journalism work and a part-time job, 947 interstate miles lay between my North Carolina home and my fiancee in Des Moines. That’s why I drove more than 10,000 miles during the… Read More

The online-auction model of theuShip.com system for retail freight is entering the commercial arena. Their new General Manager of Freight, Charles Myers (pictured), like you, is a veteran of that arena. While he’s most recently served in freight projects in China, his background also includes the Presidency of commercial load board service GetLoaded.com. “I’ve been around quite… Read More

uShip was featured in a segment on CNBC’s Power Lunch on July 5, 2011. The Business Coast-to-Coast segment discussed the peak summer moving season and featured a uShip customer and transporter completing a cross-country move. Watch the video on CNBC.com. Read the transcript below:   For more than 20 million Americans, the time between Memorial and Labor… Read More

Published: Tuesday, 5 Jul 2011 | 6:06 PM ET | Jessica Golden There’s a high-tech shipping alternative that is offering a unique new way to move your stuff across the country as more than 20 million Americans prepare to move this summer. Business is booming for an Austin, Texas based company called uShip, an online… Read More

Every now and again I come across an eBay story where a sale goes perfectly and that’s just what happened to Lyndon Holman of Devon. One morning before work Lyndon bid and won a his perfect sauna on eBay but it was 142 miles away in Birmingham. It was also marked “Local Collect Only” but… Read More

By Daniel P. Bearth, Senior Features Writer New technology and a changing business environment are having a profound effect on the way transportation services are bought and sold. The Internet and advanced software enable shippers, along with a growing cadre of technically savvy brokerage and third-party logistics firms, to find freight hauling capacity and compare… Read More

uShip Opens to Brokers   Brokered loads go up on shipping auction site, a source of truck capacity   The Journal of Commerce April 18, 2011   Online marketplace uShip, which is doing for shipping what eBay did for sales, is moving deeper into the world of industrial transportation.   The company is letting freight brokers… Read More

uShip, an online transport marketplace, has appointed Charles Myers, a 35-year veteran of the transport, freight and supply chain industry, as the new general manager of freight.   In his new role, Myers will oversee the company’s brokered loads and private network freight exchange services, both of which it recently introduced into its online spot… Read More