Why “empty miles” is the easiest tell.

In trucking, there’s one stat that exposes how broken coordination still is: 16.7% of truck miles are driven empty. That’s not a rounding error. That’s millions of wasted miles, wasted fuel, wasted driver hours, and wasted capacity. Now pair that with the utilization backdrop: average load factors are about 57%, and over half of truckloads move partially empty. This is what inefficiency looks like in real life. Not “bad management,” just a system that cannot coordinate fragmented supply fast enough. So where does RIME fit? SemiCab is positioned as a freight orchestration layer, meaning it’s attacking the coordination problem directly: matching, routing, and optimizing capacity so fewer miles are burned for nothing. The investor deck gives a concrete example of what “optimization” can look like at scale: 173.5K loads over seven months, 77% optimized, with 11.7M miles saved and about $28.5M in cost savings on $340M of transportation spend. If the industry’s baseline is 16.7% empty miles, and someone can measurably reduce waste at enterprise scale, what happens when that becomes repeatable across more shippers? DYOR. This can turn into something.