The market is very competitive- capacity can get tight, which makes room for the “little guy” to grab a load. Even at the biggest companies with millions of lines of software, tons of logistics is still driven by email.
Job boards are big business. They act like a 4th party logistics company, where they aggregate the available loads from multiple 3rd party logistics companies. But there’s plenty of these aggregation site that, as mentioned operate a lot more like Craigslist.
More sophisticated systems are like the stock market, automated systems booking loads within one second after becoming available.
In every industry there are fly by night hucksters that take business from people who have no experience procuring services and don't know how to find legitimate companies. Mr Black seems like one of these. Imagine risking 100k on a craiglist driver, I don't blame Mr Black, he has his business model and customers who take th risk on him, but surely the candy company would spend more time doing due diligence of vendors and insurance when it involves a 100k shipment. A lesson learnt I suppose
Job boards are big business. They act like a 4th party logistics company, where they aggregate the available loads from multiple 3rd party logistics companies. But there’s plenty of these aggregation site that, as mentioned operate a lot more like Craigslist.
More sophisticated systems are like the stock market, automated systems booking loads within one second after becoming available.