Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers
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#2It's been mentioned before (I think I saw it here) but trailers like these would be such a great launch platform for drones. They'd no longer be limited to X miles from the Distribution Center, but could just send relatively few trucks out to strategic locations optimized for that day's deliveries, and let the drones launch from there and automatically deliver.
Have battery-swapping robots on the truck too so that your drones can keep delivering packages without a long wait to charge.
30-minute deliveries seems only to be the tip of the iceberg for what drone-powered deliveries could facilitate.
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#3My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.
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#4Maybe they want to standardize trailers so loading will work better. This may be a step towards robotic loading and unloading.
Re: Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers
#5My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.
Not yet, but soon. First they need to buy the truck trailers to keep in stock, then they need to buy the larger truck trailers to transport the truck trailers during shipping.
Re: Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers
#6Maybe they want to standardize trailers so loading will work better. This may be a step towards robotic loading and unloading.
Semi trailers are already pretty standardized with respect to both size and equipment. Perhaps they need a feature which is not currently standard?
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#7Amazon is trying to build its own logistics with drones and is probably well aware of self driven trucks (which many automotive companies are testing ). To build on that, all it will need for now are those Truck Trailer. As the self driving automotive industry gets more mature in near future, their trucking partners will be replaced eventually. And who knows it might already be working on its own Self Driven automotive project.
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#8How soon will Amazon go into the freight business? After all they ran their own servers and then with excess capacity started AWS. So if a particular trailer is 75% full on a given run why not rent out the space?
If you're running dead head why not rent it out for a retail price rather than letting a freight broker fill it? A startup running on AWS could hand over its logistics to Amazon as well.
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#9It's been mentioned before (I think I saw it here) but trailers like these would be such a great launch platform for drones. They'd no longer be limited to X miles from the Distribution Center, but could just send relatively few trucks out to strategic locations optimized for that day's deliveries, and let the drones launch from there and automatically deliver. Have battery-swapping robots on the truck too so that yo…
But... how does the truck have the inventory to fulfill whatever is ordered, within 30 minutes? You don't know in advance what "the day's deliveries" are going to be, or where they will be, because the drone deliveries are on-demand.
Re: Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers
#10It's been mentioned before (I think I saw it here) but trailers like these would be such a great launch platform for drones. They'd no longer be limited to X miles from the Distribution Center, but could just send relatively few trucks out to strategic locations optimized for that day's deliveries, and let the drones launch from there and automatically deliver. Have battery-swapping robots on the truck too so that yo…
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