News / As Uber bleeds cash, it eyes a saviour in tie-up with freight platform

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Uber has piled more misery on its investors with another quarter in the red, but it is hoping to gain traction in the freight market through its hook-up with transport management system (TMS) software provider MercuryGate International.

On Tuesday, a partnership was announced that puts Uber Freight’s carrier network on the MercuryGate platform, giving the TMS firm’s shipper customers instant access to Uber Freight’s real-time pricing and guaranteed freight lane capacity.

Albert Saphir, president of logistics consultancy ABS Consult, called the tie-up ...