The American economy is a vast, living organism comprised of
a cellular structure of raw capitalistic forces pushing and pulling against one
another, with vast quantities of goods and services changing hands on a daily
basis. This juggernaut is quantifiable by metrics like the official U.S. GDP
figure for last year of some $17.42 trillion dollars and its lifeblood cannot
be circulated without the logistical capacity provided by often overlooked, yet
inherently vital components such as the trucking industry, which moves nearly
70 percent of all freight tonnage in the country. By any measure, without the
trucking industry, the engine of American prosperity would come to a grinding
halt.
The 37,000 plus member-strong federation of trucking groups
known as the ATA (American Trucking Associations), valued this sector in its
annual report last year at over $700 billion in revenue. A huge sum of money
that is underpinned by roughly three million heavy-duty Class 8 trucks, which
consume in excess of 37 billion gallons of diesel in order to keep the roughly
9.96 billion tons of annual freight moving around the country.
The industry as a whole employed over seven million people
as of 2013 alone, including more than 3.4 million drivers, with commercial
trucks representing a $16.5 million plus in contributions to government coffers
via federal highway user fees. The industry also continues to be plagued by a
persistent driver shortage and faces numerous other challenges, such as CSA
(Carrier Safety Administration) regulations, including driving limit HOS
(Hours-of-Service) compliance and pending driver coercion regulations, which
seek to address the problem of drivers being pressured by dispatchers (and
others) to violate federal stipulations and meet increasingly unrealistic
delivery deadlines.
This industry also remains highly fragmented, with 50 of the
biggest players, like versatile provider of surface transportation, delivery
and logistics services J B Hunt (NASDAQ: JBHT), or transportation, logistics
and supply-chain management giant Con-way (NYSE: CNW), accounting for less than
30 percent of the overall market. This is the kind of fragmentation so
brilliantly taken advantage of in other industries by companies like on-demand
ride-sharing car service firm Uber, which was worth just $18 billion a year ago
and is now posting valuations in the neighborhood of $50 billion. With some
reports now suggesting that Uber’s innovative approach to app-driven, on-demand
servicing could effectively drive more than $2 billion in revenue this year
alone, similar innovations in the trucking industry should be of considerable
interest to savvy investors.
It is into this highly fragmented environment that trucking
industry innovator On the Move Systems (OTC: OMVS) has stepped, with its ground-breaking
ISTx Platform technology designed to synchronize supply chain dynamics within
the freight industry, employing similar shared economy business modeling
concepts that have so successfully been exploited by companies like Uber, or
social network-driven lodging rental site developer Airbnb. By creating the
software and instrumentation architecture required to transform the freight
industry, OMVS is within striking distance of fully bringing forward a solution
that unites business applications with logistics inventory and the
end-customers, allowing for on-demand local freight carrier service to be
obtained readily.
This concept of on-demand freight has immense potential for
growing the overall industry. By making a wider variety of interstate shipping
methods accessible to more players within the sector, while also improving
overall cost efficiencies through synchronized supply chain realizations and
the lowering of delivery times, the on-demand freight model being created by
OMVS could forever change the face of the trucking industry. Indeed, the
emergence of such innovation could have truly transformative implications, with
route optimization created by a subsequently interwoven national and local
carrier web leading to efficiencies never before thought possible. The
company’s roll out of a shared economy app to power this on-demand freight
vision was recently bolstered by the announcement that the company has tapped a
prominent Houston-area software design firm to assist in executing the final phases.
On the Move Systems has clearly defined an implementation
vector here for doing to interstate shipping what Uber has done for hailing a
cab, but within in an industry that is several times larger and of inestimably
greater vital significance to the underlying economy. The global potential of
the OMVS model is telegraphed by the proliferation of Uber-type service models
in other countries around the world and the extensibility of the toolkit OMVS
is putting together to tap this global potential is something that has been
creating considerable buzz in the investment community of late. The company’s
ability to connect users to a premier group of international providers that can
deliver the widest possible array of cargo availability and shipping options,
as well as access to route information, is a unique advantage that will allow
users to make highly effective decisions within minutes, and all without the
kind of routine guess work that currently hampers nearly every operator in the
industry.
The latest announcement of having tapped a crucial build
developer for the app marks a major milestone for On the Move Systems and
represents the culmination of extensive interface research and engineering
efforts over the last several months. OMVS has already attracted a great deal
of interest from local and national trucking firms looking to get in on the
ground floor with the company’s Uber-style freight portal and the long-term
revenue potential of the platform for OMVS, driven by a shared economy model
and enhanced profit margins for everyone involved, continues to sustain
shareholder confidence.
Learn more by visiting www.onthemovesystems.com
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