Uber Technologies, Inc.

Eric Berdinis

William Driegert

John E Stauffer

Maxwell MacGavin Pike

Anne Canfield Kadavy

Lior Ron

Robert Gestie Chappuis

Adam Bentley

A computer system receives a freight request from a shipper, where the freight request specifies a destination for a load of the shipper. The computer system implements a selection process to select a freight operator to haul a corresponding trailer of the trailer module from a location of the shipper to a destination. The trailer module may be monitored using information transmitted from the trailer, to determine when the trailer is picked up and/or delivered at the destination.

Freight network system using modularized trailers

A network computer system operates to monitor a location of multiple freight vehicle. For each freight vehicle of a candidate set, a determination is made as to the amount of additive travel that the freight vehicle would likely incur in traveling to a loading location of a new freight load, based at least in part on the monitored location information communicated from the operator device associated with that freight operator. The network computer system implements a matching process to match the freight load with one of the freight vehicles of the candidate set. The network computer system also determines a shipment value for transporting the freight load, based on the additive amount of travel which the freight vehicle is to perform. In some examples, the network computer system directs the matched freight operator to the loading location, using a device of the matched freight operator.

Freight vehicle matching and operation

Data corresponding to a new less-than-truckload shipment request can be received from a first computing device. The data can include a pickup location, a delivery location, a pickup time, and a delivery time. One or more trucks that are assigned to a current less-than-truckload shipment and are capable of executing the new less-than-truckload shipment while also completing the respective current less-than-truckload shipment can be identified from accessing a database. A message corresponding to an invitation for executing the new less-than-truckload shipment can be transmitted to one or more operator computing devices of the identified one or more trucks capable.

Systems for routing and controlling vehicles for freight

A shipment system can coordinate a less-than-truckload shipment with one or more freight vehicles by receiving from a first computing device, data corresponding to a new less-than-truckload shipment request. The data can comprise a pickup location, a delivery location, a pickup time, and a delivery time. Additionally, the shipment system can identify, from accessing a database, one or more trucks that are assigned to a current less-than-truckload shipment and are capable of executing the new less-than truckload shipment while completing the respective current-less-than-truckload shipment. A message corresponding to an invitation for executing the new less-than-truckload shipment can be transmitted to one or more operator computing devices of the identified one or more trucks capable.

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