There's a big industry in freight exchange. If shippers deliver to their customers, then need to return to depot empty, they have the full round trip costs to a

There's a big industry in freight exchange. If shippers deliver to their customers, then need to return to depot empty, they have the full round trip costs to account for (which is inevitably added to their customer's pricing). If for every journey the shipper does, he can find someone who needs a load shipping back to somewhere near his depot, which can pay for the return journey overheads, plus earn some extra money, then it's a big win. The shipper would then only need to price the one way journey into costs for the customer, which could lower his pricing and give him an advantage over competitors in the market, as well as earn additional money for every return load. I run the logistics for a FMCG company, and we own a small fleet, which delivers all over the UK and occasionally into Europe. Most of the time, we return to depot empty. We don't have the resources to act as a transport brokerage in addition to selling our own goods. At present we use returnloads.net and TimoCom, and have a close relationship with a couple of local transport brokers. We place the times and locations of our vehicles into their systems and occasionally get a response. We work on very small timescales (1-3 days) of planning, so it's not easy to find return loads. We also use transport brokerage firms ourselves when we're busy and selling more than our fleet can handle, or if we're shipping out so far that it's not cost effective to put on our own vehicles. Pricing here can vary massively, where if we can manage to find a return load, it's usually at half the cost it would be to contact a standard shipping firm. I can't see Uber Freight being any more useful than returnloads.net, but if it turns out to be, then I could end up being a provider and a consumer.