. Created appointments to arrive at the port fall into the same time zone and should have an analogous schedule to reach the destination.
. The exporter is closer to the location of the trucker than the total distance from the port during arrival at the port gate.
. The exporter is located within an acceptable and preferred radius from the trucker.
. The sharing task should benefit all the corresponding parties from a financial perspective.
. The truck and the container characteristics are taken into account during matching.
. Most importantly, the needs and the preferences of each other (exporters and truckers) are discovered.