Patent ID: 8452713

Claim:
A system for matching freight vehicles and loads, said system comprising: a database for receiving location data from a plurality of global positioning system (GPS) receivers wherein each GPS receiver is coupled to one of the freight vehicles; said database including a plurality of organization labels wherein each organization label corresponds to an organization and wherein at least one of said organization labels is associated with each of the freight vehicles and each of the loads; said database including a vehicle visibility tag associated with each freight vehicle and denoting whether each freight vehicle is visible to either only the organization associated with the freight vehicle or the organization associated with the freight vehicle and at least one additional organization; said database including a load visibility tag associated with each load and denoting whether each load is visible to either only the organization associated with the load or the organization associated with the load and at least one additional organization, each vehicle visibility tag and load visibility tag being modified between a first state wherein the corresponding vehicle and load are visible to each organization and a second state wherein the corresponding vehicle and load are visible only to the organization associated with the corresponding vehicle and load; a plurality of client computing devices in communication with said database; each of said client computing devices includes a display; each of said client computing devices for transmitting an identification associated with at least one of the organization labels; and a server computer coupled the database and to each client computing device of the plurality of client computing devices, the server computer for receiving a request from at least one client computing device to transmit information associated with the freight vehicles and the loads, for identifying the organization label associated with the at least one client computing device, and for responsively transmitting information associated with each vehicle and load associated with the identified organization label, and for transmitting information associated with each vehicle and load having a visibility tag in the first state, the transmitted information including a current location of each freight vehicle and a current location of each load; said computing device for displaying a map including the location of each freight vehicle and load transmitted to said computing device from said server computer.