How Uber Freight is leveraging AI to make truck routes more efficient

Rodolfo Benitez for Business Insider

• Trucking industry leaders want to minimize empty-trailer trips to improve costs and efficiency.
• Uber Freight is using AI on its platform to provide trucking companies with more optimized routes.
• This article is part of "How AI Is Changing Everything: Supply Chain," a series on innovations in logistics.

Moving air has become a nuisance for the trucking industry in recent years.

A recent industry report estimated that at any given moment...