I’ve been running freight in Western Colorado for the past 12 years.
FreightIQ started while I was covering a route I didn’t know well. A handful of the stops weren’t obvious—it wasn’t clear where you were actually supposed to deliver. I had to park the truck, get out, figure out where I needed to be, move into the right spot, and finally get the delivery done.
The most annoying part was knowing that several of my coworkers had already delivered there. Drivers from other companies had too. That knowledge already existed. There just wasn’t an easy way for us to save it and share it with each other.
We have a hard enough job as it is. Why are we wasting time figuring things out the hard way when another driver already knows the answer?
So I started building FreightIQ: a way to capture practical delivery knowledge and make it useful to the next driver.
If I can spend a couple of minutes saving information that helps another driver save 10 or 15 minutes, why wouldn’t I?
That’s where FreightIQ came from.
Time constraints, tight locations, bad weather, and difficult receiving situations aren’t going away. FreightIQ won’t eliminate every challenge, but it can help drivers arrive knowing where to go, what to expect, and how to get the delivery done with a little less stress.