{"id":83370,"title":"Cartage: Autonomous freight operations 🚚","tagline":"Service-as-software that replaces freight brokers and logistics teams.","body":"**_Tl;dr:_** You don’t need people to coordinate freight. We replace brokers and logistics teams, cut costs by 30%, and embed visibility into shipping.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83370\u0026key=user_uploads/1567005/0930f62f-8507-486b-a01b-846b7bceea4e)\n\n**🫠 Problem**\\\nManufacturers and distributors in North America spend $400 billion every year on third-party vendors to coordinate freight shipments for them. These vendors are inefficient and opaque and inflate freight spend by up to 50%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83370\u0026key=user_uploads/1567005/029b60ed-1218-4b77-ab82-d9e67e073503)\n\n**😁 Solution**\\\nCartage is a service-as-software system that coordinates freight shipments between shippers and trucking companies. We replace freight brokers and internal logistics teams. By requiring minimal headcount to coordinate freight, we afford margins traditional vendors can’t, reducing freight costs for shippers by up to 30%.\n\nIn addition to cheaper shipping costs, we embed technology into the shipping experience, providing all stakeholders visibility and transparency on shipments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83370\u0026key=user_uploads/1567005/3986ca96-2699-4343-9aa8-03854af6c159)\n\n**😁 Impact**\\\nWe started by selling software to freight brokers, growing to $150k ARR in under 4 months full-time, but since pivoting to replacing brokers, we’ve received immediate love from shippers.\n\nWe’ve signed 8 shipper customers since launching in early August, and have acquired [Westcore Logistics](https://westcorelogistics.com/), [Canada’s fastest-growing logistics company](https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/westcore-logistics-places-no-3-on-the-globe-and-mail-s-fifth-annual-ranking-of-canada-s-top-growing-companies--867532237.html) in 2023. We are on pace to coordinate more than $2m in freight shipments over the next six months.\n\n**👨‍💻 Team**\\\n[Abdul Basharat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abashara/) (CEO) and [Josh Lampen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlampen/) (CTO) were early employees at [Rose Rocket (YC S16)](https://www.roserocket.com/), a leading ERP solution for trucking companies. [Harman Sahota](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmansahota/) (COO) founded Westcore Logistics, scaling it from 0 to $50M+ in revenue within four years.\n\nFun facts:\n\n* Abdul trained as a military pilot\n* Josh played water polo for Team Canada\n* Harman started brokering freight at 14\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=83370\u0026key=user_uploads/1567005/773960d0-c363-46a0-aca9-7b09af81e61b)\n\n","slug":"Lgg-cartage-autonomous-freight-operations","created_at":"2024-08-24T19:24:05.802Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:53:54.982Z","total_vote_count":47,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lgg-cartage-autonomous-freight-operations","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=83370\u0026key=user_uploads/1567005/0930f62f-8507-486b-a01b-846b7bceea4e","company":{"id":29791,"name":"Cartage","slug":"cartage","url":"https://cartage.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d0afccc0962e52bb6440d323cf8b43f42b8a268.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Machine Learning","Workflow Automation","Logistics","Supply Chain","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29791"}}