BigRig SONAR will launch its first digital Driver App Scarcity Hackathon (DASH) beginning Monday to handle the dearth of software program constructed primarily for truck drivers.
Scheduled for June 15–22, 2026, the hackathon challenges builders, designers and trade newcomers to spend seven days constructing a minimal viable product targeted on enhancing the day by day lives, wellness and retention {of professional} truck drivers.
Fixing an underserved problem
With most fashionable freight expertise designed to profit fleet managers, dispatchers and brokers, the nation’s 3.5 million skilled truck drivers stay largely underserved.
DASH goals to steer improvement hours towards the labor supporting the $800 billion annual U.S. trucking trade.
Funding alternatives
To assist builders develop high-quality functions, all registered individuals will obtain free entry to the SONAR freight knowledge API at some stage in the hackathon. This API grants individuals entry to the identical market knowledge utilized by main shippers, carriers and brokers throughout the nation.
The competitors is free to enter, open to world individuals and ensures that builders retain 100% of their mental property.
Accomplished initiatives might be evaluated by a judging panel of freight operators, BigRig executives and enterprise capital traders, giving finalists direct visibility to leaders who may also help advise on or scale their concepts.
Get registered
Are you able to construct software program that helps the spine of American freight? Registration is free and open to anybody, wherever. Join right this moment to safe your free SONAR API entry and put together to make a distinction for truck drivers.
[Register for the DASH hackathon here]
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