Abstract
The patent’s assignee is TruckWise LLC (Estill, South Carolina, United States).News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Many industries today regularly need long distance and lar ge weight movers for transportation of productsfrom one location to another. In a non-limiting example, in the logging industry, trucks are needed fortranspor tation of trees from the woods to various timber products mills. Likewise, in a non-limitingexample, in the pine straw industry, trucks are used for the transp ortation of pine needles from the woodsto an end user or to a business that sel ls pine straw bales. An easy-to-use solution that efficiently matchesvehicle dr iver and suppliers is necessary. Existing solutions are not satisfactory.”