thanks for the quick replies! Schiessl I will drop you an email in the upcoming days and discuss there.
@abit, big picture of the process can be done on the BitShares ecosystem. Vendors and shippers can transact contracts and value on the blockchain, all information will be public and everybody will see the freight rates that are agreed. This will improve greatly the competitiveness among the truck companies, wider access to more shipments and trustless rating system. On the other side the shippers who are looking for truck companies, will widen Extremely their truck access and improve speed, costs and efficiency for their logistics needs. Online bidding process happens after the pre-filtered shipment and carriers meet, price is agreed with mini auction (tender is the other word) and smart contract for transport is concluded between parties. After the shipment is done, the whole documentation, such as invoices and delivery documents, can be stored and exchanged on the blockchain. When the bidding, shipping, delivery and documentation are done, here comes the best part that can be migrated to the blockchain - payments. As I see here are interesting enough projects already such as Bitspark and they can provide the fiatgateway which the shippers on the one side and truckers on other, need. The whole transaction will be based on BTS and immediately tranfered to FIAT gateway so parties can avoid volatility and loss of value in the transfer. We in the sphere transact money between countries ALOT and trust me the fees we pay to banks are outrageous.
Combining all that with the database I have and more that comes into one platform will change the logistics sphere forever. I hope this had given you an idea of the disruption I am talking about, I hope I have explained it in a good digestable way. I do not know what part of that is possible on BitShares but would be happy to find out.