Our Story: How uShip Came to Be
What Shipping Problem We Solve
How Do You Ship That?
uShip Culture and Values
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An entrepreneur. An empty rental truck. A fiance bored to tears. All the makings of a great startup and story.
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Many startups form in a garage. uShip started in the back of a moving truck.
In 2001, Matt Chasen and his then-fiancé, Heather, were moving from Seattle to Austin. The 9 ft. van Matt ordered was sold out, leaving them with an enormous 20 ft. truck — and a LOT of empty space.
Large items are notoriously hard to transport. That's where uShip comes in.
We're a marketplace that uses technology to help shipping customers and transporters efficiently find each other and transact on our site.
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Among the millions of "regular" shipments that have passed through uShip over the years, we've seen a fair share of strange, wonderful, nostalgic, and downright jawdropping items.
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From Day 1, uShip's culture has been fundamental to the company's ethos. Today, as a hybrid workplace, keeping culture alive is more important than ever. Our values are at the heart of it.
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Our people are our greatest asset, and we’re always looking for new skills, experiences, and perspectives to add to the mix and shake things up a bit.
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If you don't ship big and bulky items every day, you may have some questions. We're here to help, whether you're a first-time shipping customer, transporter, or a freight broker.
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SEE WHAT INSPIRED MATT
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Traveling 2,500 miles in a near-empty truck, Matt remembered the large family heirloom armoire he’d tried — and failed — to ship a year earlier due to the astronomic shipping cost.
That’s when he had his lightbulb moment: Create an online process to efficiently connect people’s large shipments with empty truck space so both parties win.
His incessent talk about the concept "bored Heather to tears," Matt says. And yes, she still married him.
SEE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
Matt's concept would pay off. He would go on to make this his focus at business school, where he met fellow students Jay Manickam and Mickey Millsap. The trio honed the idea, and in 2003, uShip was formed, and in 2004 uship.com was launched.
Find Out How We Do it
Listing your shipment on uShip is free. And it's free to sign-up as a transporter. uShip only makes money when a shipment is booked and delivered. We earn a small fee from the shipper and a percentage from the carrier based on the shipping cost.
Transporters on uShip specialize in hard-to-ship items.
They drive sprinter vans, pickup truck-trailer combinations, box trucks, and flatbeds suitable for cars and heavy equipment.
There are thousands of active providers on the site. We give you the tools to pick the right one for your shipment.
SO, HOW DOES USHIP MAKE MONEY?
Our focus is on making it easy, fast, and affordable to ship large and bulky items, like furniture, vehicles, freight, motorcycles, boats, pianos, household moves, pinball machines, and more
Need to ship a parcel or small package? We recommend FedEx, UPS or USPS.
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1. COLLABORATION
The payoff? Meaningful work that comes in many forms.
Perhaps we help that auto enthusiast receive that dream car safely in their driveway.
Or we give that online furniture seller tools to provide their customers with automated shipping costs at checkout.
Or we let that transporter be their own boss and earn a living on the road.
Or it's volunteer work in our community.
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It’s hard to separate our work from our culture.
We encourage creativity and initiative, and thrive on using technology to make large-item transport more efficient and affordable.
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Making your dream home a reality.
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Bloom Construction
1900 Steam Engine
McDonald's Playland Cheeseburger
Sonic Carnival Ride
Piggly Wiggly Parade Costume
Each image has an "on click -show target and hide others" interaction applied. Every time you click on an image it will show a specific hotspot in the "Cycle through Hotspots" folder and hide the other Hotspots. The Hotspots in this folder have "on view - change target state" interactions which triggers the images to change to a certain object state.
Object states give you the ability to assign various “states” to an element on the canvas. Each image has four states where the images positions and size changes in each state.
This hotspot has an "on click- cycle next interaction". It is cycling through two folders.
The first folder is cycling through "Cycle through Hotspots". Each Hotspot in this folder has an "on view - change target state" interactions which triggers the images to change to a certain object state.
The second folder is cycling through the "Text" folder. This folder has the added descriptions under each image.
Create an image "preview" for a carousel of images using object states.
Advanced Template - Image Preview Carousel
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Ok, we’ll admit: this was probably cute (or maybe funny?) at some point. But this 100-lb. Piggly Wiggly parade costume head looks just plain creepy through the 2019 lens. While we love a good costume, we’re pretty sure this guy would be a real ratings killer on The Masked Singer.
Feeling super? How about Super Sonic?! This classic carnival ride lifts you up and spins you around and around, 19 times per minute. Holds eight riders. Vertigo sold separately.
This relic would fall into the category of “very vintage,” as it brings all the elements of a good vintage toy to the table: unsafe for kids, a strange face with bulging eyes, and a top hat!
One of the oldest vehicles ever shipped through uShip is this steam engine from the turn of the century. While it looks old fashioned now, it was advanced technology in its time, and part of a phase of innovation that would transform our whole world.
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We carry the load together by building purposeful relationships grounded in cooperation and a shared vision.
We relentlessly deliver high-quality experiences on the highways and in the hallways.
2. EXECUTION
We optimize our products and grow our people by fostering experimentation and iterating on ideas.
3. INNOVATION
We commit to navigating the potholes and overcoming adversity to produce results that make us proud
4. GRIT
We act with empathy, honesty, transparency, and integrity.
5. RESPECT
We encourage you to be yourself and we embrace everyone for their unique contributions to the team.
6. AUTHENTICITY
1. COLLABORATION
