Amazon Looks to Develop an Uber-Like App for Booking Truck Freight
For Amazon, bringing freight-brokerage in-house and giving it the company’s signature tech-friendly functionality would allow the company to drive more volume toward its own cargo-handling arm and offer excess space to other shippers—a potential new revenue stream that would trim the cost of the operation.
.. In a note Friday, analysts with Stephens Inc. said Amazon “has the in-house infrastructure and capital to deploy a highly sophisticated, user-friendly product,” and it’s one of the few shippers with the scale to launch it on their own.