Tag: algorithms

Overdrive Extra
Processing an insurrection, with the Colonel
Long Haul Paul on the U.S. Capitol riot, and the messy questions it raises ... "How much time do we devote to the fussy comradeships of peripheral people we encounter online? And how much time does that rob from those we care about the most? ..."
January 19, 2021
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Business
Volatile year shows growing pains of in-app freight pricing, value of negotiation
Rate extremities brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated trends in increasing utility of brokers' mobile freight engines, with an explosion of new entrants.
November 25, 2020
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Business
Latest ‘uber for trucking’ launches app — this time, it’s from Uber itself
“Uber for trucking,” long considered a freight-matching unicorn, has come to a kind of fruition, with the ride-sharing giant today unveiling its brokerage’s Uber Freight matching app aimed at the owner-operator market with a focus on dry van and reefer loads.
May 18, 2017
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Channel 19
Roundup: Remembering McGuire Trucking of Ga.; infrastructure process change needed; ‘disparate impact’ in CSA algorithm?
Two recommended reads out on the web — and remembering a fleet whose owner recently passed with one of our Reader Rigs gallery contributors.
September 12, 2015
“This is a picture was taken a few years back of the former fleet of McGuire Trucking,” Westmoreland wrote. “McGuire Trucking was in business from the early 80s through January of 2015. Wayne McGuire was the owner of these trucks. He is greatly missed. He always ran beautiful Kenworth trucks, many of which he bought new.”
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