Ben Gilbert: prediction

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…I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. Let's talk about trucks, 18 wheelers, semis, the long haul guys. One out of every four of these that you see on the road is completely empty. Truckers finish a job and then pick up the phone to find their next load which could be a state or more away. You might think they should be able to just have their boss or co-worker figure it out across multiple trucks and coordinate, but get this, 90% of trucking companies have 6 or fewer trucks and 97% have fewer than 20 trucks. There are over a million independent trucking companies or carriers (as we’ll call them tonight) in the United States alone. Enter Convoy. Today we are going to talk about this company which has only existed unbelievably for 4½ years and their ambitious plans to make it easy for any truck driver to find a nearby load, transparently see what they'll get paid, and do it all as you would expect right on their smartphone. We've existed for 4½ years, too. We're almost as big as Convoy.…

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