Patent ID: 8676719

Claim:
A system for collecting and providing freight and empty vehicle information, comprising: at least one freight owner terminal computer configured to send freight information, including a type, quantity and size of freight, a desired date and time of departure, a place of departure, a place of arrival, contact information of an owner of the freight, and freight charges, and receive vehicle allocation information; at least one transport affiliate terminal computer configured to send transport affiliate information, including a location, name and contact information of a transport affiliate, vehicle information, information about a driver of a vehicle, and empty vehicle information; at least one agent affiliate terminal computer configured to send agent affiliate information, including a location, name and contact information of an agent affiliate, and empty vehicle information related to an agent affiliate empty vehicle, and allocate the agent affiliate empty vehicle to transport freight, entrusted by the owner of the freight, using freight and empty vehicle information; a freight and empty vehicle information management server configured to: classify and store the freight information, empty vehicle information, transport affiliate information and agent affiliate information, sent by the freight owner terminal computer, the transport affiliate terminal computer and the agent affiliate terminal computer, according to freight area and agent affiliate, and provide freight and empty vehicle information such that only empty vehicle information of at least one transport affiliate in a first freight area is provided to at least one agent affiliate terminal computer in said first freight area, standby vehicle information is provided to at least one other agent affiliate terminal computer in the first freight area, and freight and empty vehicle information unrelated to an agent affiliate is provided to agent affiliate terminal computers in all the freight areas; and an empty vehicle registration gas station device configured to send information about an emptiness of at least one vehicle to at least one of an agent affiliate terminal computer and the freight and empty vehicle information management server when a card reader installed in a gas station reads a membership card of an independent transport service provider who requests registration of empty vehicle information, wherein the freight and empty vehicle information management server is further configured to provide information about particular freight allocated to a particular vehicle only to the owner of said particular freight, an agent affiliate to which the transport of the particular freight has been entrusted, and an agent affiliate in charge of the particular vehicle which was allocated to the transport of the particular freight, so as to prevent two or more agent affiliates from allocating their vehicles to the transport of the same particular freight.