Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron to step in as ...

Uber Freight appoints Rebecca Tinucci as CEO, succeeding Lior Ron. The post Rebecca Tinucci named CEO of Uber Freight ...

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron is joining autonomous trucking startup Waabi as COO and says the era of self-driving big rigs across U.S. roads is near.

Uber Freight has appointed Rebecca Tinucci as chief executive officer, succeeding founder Lior Ron, who will move into the ...

Lior Ron, the entrepreneur who founded and ran Uber Technologies Inc.’s freight and logistics unit, is returning to the world of self-driving big rigs.

Lior Ron, the co-founder and CEO of Uber’s freight operations arm, is joining Toronto-based Waabi as the Canadian startup ...

However, the last two quarters have shown significant improvement in its negative EBITDA numbers. Uber Freight’s EBITDA in ...

Freight management startup GoodShip has raised $25 million in Series B funding to overhaul the trillion-dollar shipping ...

Former Uber and Tesla Executive to Lead Next Chapter of Innovation and Customer-Centric Growth; Founder Lior Ron Transitions to ChairmanCHICAGO, Aug. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Uber Freight today ...

That makes Waabi’s new Uber Freight partnership, along with Softbank’s recent $1 billion investment in autonomous trucking startup Stack AI, much-needed good news for the segment.

Two years ago, Uber Freight bought third-party logistics provider Transplace in a $2.25 billion deal and said the acquisition would “enable a comprehensive end-to-end shipper-to-carrier solution.” ...

Launched in 2017, freight was only doing $400 million in quarterly gross bookings for Uber just before its $2.25 billion acquisition of managed transportation company Transplace in late 2021.