Trucking
Amazon Expands Its Reach in the Trucking Industry
The Seattle tech giant unveils a new online freight-brokerage platform
E-commerce giant Amazon is disrupting yet another market. This time its the digital freight-brokerage sector, an emerging industry that allows shippers to connect with haulers directly to schedule loads via an online platform. Amazon has quietly turned on its own digital-freight brokerage platform, at freight.amazon.com, a service that industry publication Freight Waves reports is undercutting…