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Autocab puts Uber inside the local taxi office
The Manchester software company helps independent fleets book, dispatch and bill their journeys. Its owner, Uber, can also send them passengers - a useful arrangement with an awkward history.
GreenRoad Put a Traffic Light in the Cab - Then Turned Safer Driving Into a Score
The fleet-tech veteran built its business on a stubborn idea: the useful moment is not after a harsh turn appears in a dashboard. It is while the driver can still correct it.
PrePass Sells Truckers a Green Light - and Turns Five Minutes Into a Fleet Strategy
For more than 30 years, PrePass has sold fleets something gloriously unromantic: fewer stops. The trick is turning a green light at the scale house into lower fuel burn, cleaner toll books and a reason for drivers to stay.
Drōv Technologies
Drōv Technologies is an Oklahoma City company building smart-trailer technology for the trucking industry. Its flagship AirBoxOne platform unifies tire inflation, wheel-end, load, temperature, door, and impact sensors into a single connected system that streams real-time diagnostics to drivers and fleet offices. Founded on a legacy of tire-inflation hardware expertise, Drōv aims to make trailers as connected as the tractors pulling them, targeting fuel efficiency, uptime, safety, and predictive maintenance across dry vans, reefers, and petroleum tankers.
GridMatrix
GridMatrix is an Austin-and-San-Francisco-linked startup that turns the traffic cameras, radar, and loop detectors cities already own into a live feed of congestion, safety, and emissions data. Founded in 2021 by former Apple and Amazon operations engineers, the company sells cloud software to departments of transportation, port authorities, and campuses that would rather squeeze insight out of existing hardware than buy new sensors. It has raised just under $10 million and now runs on bridges, tunnels, and marine terminals across the country.
aifleet
aifleet is an Austin-based, tech-driven trucking company that runs its own fleet on proprietary AI. Instead of selling software to carriers, it operates as a full-stack truckload carrier, using machine learning to book, price, and stack loads so trucks run fuller and drivers earn more with predictable weekly home time. The company reports roughly 40% higher truck utilization than the industry average and aims to fix the chronic inefficiency and high driver turnover that define long-haul freight.