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“The pandemic highlighted how important trucking is and how volatile and inefficient this industry can be,” said Convoy CEO Dan Lewis. ...
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paul Newman
April 26, 2022 at 5:08 pmTranspotel did exactly the same as Convoy in 1990 & it failed, the same as several other load matching systems since.