How 'Uber for truckers' Cargomatic burned $15m pivoting from being a tech company

So it turns out that not all disrupters are particularly disruptive. This fascinating warts-and-all insight into California’s Cargomatic, the so-called “Uber for truckers”, reveals that the tech platform’s data is actually input manually. The company, which has laid off half its staff and seen the CEO, CFO and COO all leave, has failed to attract further investment and struggled after deliberately operating at a loss. It shut down its New York office, citing tolls and bad weather as “challenges to its ...