Kamion
Uber for Trucks for Turkey
Turkey is MENA’s largest economy, with ~850,000 independent truckers and a logistics market of 73 Billion USD. However, in its current state, freight forwarding for trucking relies on many phone calls, emails, and f2f conversations. Trucking is also fragmented, with SME fleets having ~95% market share. Kamion is the Uber for Trucks for Turkey. We connect businesses that are looking for trucks, with trucks that are looking for loads. We also utilize technology to do more with fewer people and collect data.
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Berkay Adlim
Berkay is the Founder and CEO of Kamion, the Uber for Trucks for Turkey. His background includes working in logistics from an early age to becoming a published researcher at Columbia. Berkay holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS in Applied Analytics from Columbia University.
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tl;dr - Kamion connects shippers with truckers in the B2B space in Turkey.
the Problem:
Turkey is MENA’s largest economy, with ~850,000 independent truckers and a logistics TAM of 73 Billion USD. However, in its current state, freight forwarding for trucking faces two main challenges:
- 1) Operational Inefficiency — There are many phone calls, emails, and f2f conversations in booking trucks for your loads.
- 2) Fragmented Market — The top 10 players in trucking account for around 5-6% of the total market size. SME fleets (5-10 trucks) run 90-95% of the market.
the Solution:
We act as the main point of contact for the shippers and reduce complexity for them. We also utilize technology to do more with fewer people and collect data.
Why we built Kamion:
Berkay started working at an early age and spent a lot of time in the logistics, procurement, and warehousing departments. Working with data during his graduate school years helped him see the inefficiencies in processes in these departments. He and the team are building Kamion to solve these inefficiencies!
Selected answers from Kamion's original YC application for the S22 Batch
Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.
Uber for Trucks in Turkey
What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
Our aim is to connect shippers (companies who are in need of Full Truck Load trucking services) and carriers (small trucking companies or owner-operators) more efficiently with the help of software, data science and process design.
In the FTL space, when finding suitable trucks for loads and tracking shipments, there are a lot of tasks that can be delegated to software.
We're progressively identifying repeating tasks that cause bottlenecks in Kamion's, our shippers', and our carriers' operations and building software to handle them (invoicing, payments, document / shipment tracking).
We're also aware of some key points that will allow us to have an edge if we utilize our data in the right way (pricing, personalized load recommendations), and we're designing our software to take advantage of these as we grow.