Our Story
DecentralFreight was born from a simple observation: the freight industry is broken. Brokers take massive cuts while adding little value. Truckers wait weeks to get paid. Shippers overpay for loads and work with brokers who have no skin in the game besides their reputation. The agents at the big brokerage firms have no DOT number to protect. No $250k investment to push them to maintain the highest standards of excellence. No risk of catastrophe on a daily basis from weather, road ragers, truck breakdowns, failing a medical eval, and on and on. Plus, everyone operates in a system built on mistrust and information asymmetry (freight-rate gatekeepers).
As a former owner-operator who's lived this reality, I knew there had to be a better way. The breakthrough came when I discovered blockchain technology—specifically, smart contracts that could handle escrow, payments, and verification without intermediaries.
What if truckers and shippers could connect directly? What if payments happened in seconds instead of weeks? What if reputation and trust were transparent and verifiable on the blockchain?
That vision became DecentralFreight. We're not just building software—we're rebuilding the foundation of how freight moves in America.