Having delivered everything from modular bathrooms to pallets of water, Freight Drive is looking to revolutionise the way Australians handle freight……
Steele Jolly, Freight Drive’s founder, and director has entrepreneurship in his blood – his grandfather was the first distributor for John Deere in Western Australia.
Decades later, Steele is blazing his own path with what has been described as ‘Uber for freight’.
The platform connects customers to a screened pool of owner-operator carriers, which Steele said reduces one of the biggest problems in the industry – trucks driving without a load.
“Road freight industry productivity levels are too low, forcing unaware customers to pay for trucks to travel distances empty, and carriers hide that cost in their freight price,” he said.
“The industry is overpopulated and highly competitive, and unfortunately the national economy doesn’t produce enough freight to fill all the trucks on the road.
“Freight Drive solves this problem by building a mobile app that offers work to 70 per cent of national road freight carriers, owner-drivers.”
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Screenshots from the Freight Drive app.
