Cargomatic launches in New York market

The technology platform matches shippers who need loads delivered with available trucks.    Cargomatic, the truck brokerage app focused on urban markets, officially launched in the New York City metropolitan market on Tuesday.
   The company has been arranging transportation jobs between shippers and motor carriers since early this year on a trial basis and is now available for all interested users.
   Cargomatic allows truckers to post available capacity and shippers to post loads. The technology platform currently focuses on short-haul moves within metro areas, including shuttle runs between seaports and local distribution centers. Cargomatic is now facilitating truck moves at the Port of Los Angeles, where several terminals are implementing “hot stacks” that don’t require truckers to pick up designated containers. The system is increasing efficiency by reducing the need to hunt through piles of containers for the trucker’s load.
   (Learn more about Cargomatic’s role in “free flow” yard management in the August American Shipper cover story, “Relaxing terminal congestion.”)
   Shippers already using Cargomatic in New York, including Amazon, Boxed Wholesale, Capacity LLC and BNSF Logistics, the company said.
   “Traditional local trucking companies require endless follow-up for quotes and tracking. With Cargomatic these processes are seamless so we can focus on growing our business instead of tracking deliveries. We highly recommend Cargomatic for local freight,” Tahsin Meteoglu, regional director of MIQ Logistics in Newark, N.J., said in the Cargomatic news release.