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I make and sell software to truck fleets too :) I've seen some fleets plan their fuel stops using software to take advantage of fuel card discounts they get at
by neilfrndes 4y ago
I make and sell software to truck fleets too :)
I've seen some fleets plan their fuel stops using software to take advantage of fuel card discounts they get at certain gas stations, which helps stretch the single digit margins you mentioned. I can see this kind of software being extended to EV charge planning as well.
- foobarian 4y agoHow many developers can there be making and selling software to truck fleets? Makes me think these are small time operations ripe for disruption a la what Uber did to taxi companies. No offense meant of course! Just wondering :-)
- greedo 4y agoDo you mean the trucking companies or the software developers? The trucking companies aren't small companies by any measure. Werner Enterprises for example has 13k employees, 8k trucks, and $700M in revenue. And they're a small fry in shipping. JB Hunt has 30K employees and $12B in revenue. Swift Transportation has 22K employees, 23K trucks, and $6B in revenue. Schneider Transportation has 19K employees and revenues of $5.5B. Many of these companies have in house developers working on custom logistics packages to optimize every single detail of their operations. It's a very small margin business.
- dhosek 4y agoI’m in the midst of job search right now and I’m interviewing with two different companies doing shipping logistics. I’ve seen at least one other in the course of this job search. I’m guessing that there’s been a lot of thinking happening in this space already.