End of road for trucking startup Palleter

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> Hypothesis #3: Trucking companies offer competitive pricing for such last minute offers since available space in a moving truck is a perishable good — if you don’t sell it out the opportunity is forever gone.

Is there a parallel with free seats in airlines? If yes, then the solution is the exact opposite of discounted pricing for last minute offers.

Trucks have much less available space than the Eurostat data leads to believe. Firstly the data only considers cargo weight. So lightweight cargo skews the data. Secondly reporting the data to Eurostat is an annoyance for the trucking companies — so who knows what’s in those reports.

To a first approximation, the limiting condition for shipping is bulk not weight. Governments track and regulate weight because weight correlates to wear and tear on infrastructure.

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