Dealing with Empty Backhaul Miles

Select One, Inc. is a trucking company based in Alsip, IL. It focuses on high-density lanes across the United States. Primarily, Select One, Inc. operates east of the Rockies. One of the services offered by the company is freight transport.

Driving an empty truck when returning from delivery not only leads to lost revenue but is unsustainable. Unfortunately, a sizeable number of dedicated and private fleets have no alternative but to drive empty backhaul miles.

Data from the Department of Transport indicates that about 20 percent of the miles are driven during empty truck backhauls. Backhaul miles refer to the return trip a truck has to make after delivery. In most cases, these are covered with no cargo and are traditionally known as empty miles.

Truck carriers and freight brokers have traditionally tried to reduce the empty miles by scheduling individual pickups and drop-offs, but this has proved time-consuming, unwieldy, and often highly inefficient.

Freight AI has come up with a natural language AI platform to solve the last mile dilemma for truckers. The platform links with freight databases and communicates and through automated text messages to drivers, so they can conveniently find loads for their backhauls.