{"id":58293,"date":"2017-01-20T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=58293"},"modified":"2017-01-20T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:44:11","slug":"with-uber-freight-its-not-just-truck-drivers-whose-jobs-are-at-risk-mcdermott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/01\/20\/with-uber-freight-its-not-just-truck-drivers-whose-jobs-are-at-risk-mcdermott\/","title":{"rendered":"With Uber Freight, it&#8217;s not just truck drivers whose jobs are at risk [McDermott]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/uber-freight-its-just-truck-drivers-whose-jobs-risk-john-mcdermott?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>With Uber Freight, it&#8217;s not just truck drivers whose jobs are at risk<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from linkedin.com by John McDermott<br \/>\n<em>The bane of taxi drivers everywhere is now taking on logistics<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title\"><em>Excerpts <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the end of December Uber debuted Uber Freight, its foray into the un-sexy yet lucrative world of logistics. Many saw Uber\u2019s entry into freight as a death knell for trucking companies, as Uber is looking to build a fleet of driverless trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And while the threat to trucking is real, Uber Freight poses a more immediate risk to the thousands of mid-level, white-collar support staff jobs in the industry.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUber is uniquely positioned to streamline the industry, though. Much like the company\u2019s ride-hailing app cuts out the taxi dispatcher and allows people to hail rides directly from drivers, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Uber Freight can create a platform where shippers and truckers broker shipping orders directly with one another, effectively rendering obsolete thousands of 3PL (third party logistics) workers. It replaces people with software, and configures a labor-intensive industry into a SaaS business.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFamed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is fond of the phrase \u201csoftware is eating the world,\u201d meaning that it\u2019s replacing many of the post-industrial, pre-internet jobs once thought to be essential. Problem is, one man\u2019s efficiency is another\u2019s unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Problem is, one man\u2019s efficiency is another\u2019s unemployment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Uber Freight, it&#8217;s not just truck drivers whose jobs are at risk &#8212; from linkedin.com by John McDermott The bane of taxi drivers everywhere is now taking on logistics Excerpts (emphasis DSC): At the end of December Uber debuted Uber Freight, its foray into the un-sexy yet lucrative world of logistics. Many saw Uber\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,174,86,209,112,210,35,178,239,309,436,480,310,212,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-corporate-business-world","category-emerging-technologies","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-new-business-models","category-platforms","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58295,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58293\/revisions\/58295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}