If you want to know how independent drivers are actually doing - ignore all of the articles and charts (including our’s) and go to the trucking Facebook message boards. Small fleets owners and brokers are active. There has been a massive sentiment shift in the past week.
"The driver shortage" narrative over the past two years has caused the largest amount of startup trucking fleets in history. This is not a meme stock - these are actual entrepreneurs that have started their own trucking company. Thread 1/n
Enjoy our #CafecitoTalk with @SmartHop, a tech company that makes trucking easier, faster, and more profitable for owners and operators.
They're announcing 120+ job openings and a new Miami HQ!
Today we welcomed @smarthop and another 100+ jobs—technical and nontechnical—to our community
Smarthop empowers the average truck driver to get the most out of their day-to-day driving and leverages technology to enhance the service of a longstanding industry like transportation
We just minted an NFT in space!
60L of helium ⛽️
30ft weather balloon 🎈
30,000ft in the air 🌎
10bps satellite comms 🛰
1 camera 📸
It froze, thawed, took a picture, and minted an NFT! Next time we’ll do something about the ice..
Check it out on https://t.co/YV0YsOY8Wj
SmartHop secured a $4.5 million seed round to develop a tech-enabled dispatch tool to help small trucking companies grow their businesses. https://t.co/ENKpZucC6O
Incredibly excited to announce our investment in @smarthop - a platform for truckers, by truckers. Been amazed at the team's empathy for drivers, the support of industry around them and the platform's growth since launch. Truly revolutionizing the road. https://t.co/zTvBn51Y3C
we can model a lightning strike by finding the shortest path in a random maze, from a point at the top to the ground. To find the path, we send out a frontier through the maze, and trace it back once it reaches the ground
Friends, I learned last night over Zoom drinks that ya'll're baking so much that there's a shortage of yeast?! I, your local frumpy yeast geneticist have come here to tell you this: THERE IS NEVER A SHORTAGE OF YEAST. Here's where I'm a viking. Instructions below.