MyRiteLoad shipper-carrier freight platform ‘reboots’
MyRiteLoad hopes to fulfill the promise of what has been called the "elusive holy grail" of load matching, providing load-board-like spot market connections for independents and small fleets to direct...
View ArticleProfit — what this trucking thing is all about: A new, simple freight-bid...
In the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet owner Scott Jordan intros the ICG ProfitCalc app for Android/iOS, a freight bidding app that allows users to input their own annual cost projections...
View ArticleDigital broker’s freight platform expands
The Next Trucking tech-enabled brokeraged announced a $21M series B round of financing to expand the “trucker-centric” online freight marketplace it launched two years ago.
View Article‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
'Don't leave money on the table,' redux -- that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business' accounting and analysis to help determine effective...
View ArticleYou can ‘plan’ on making my eye twitch
"Things that make my eye twitch, for a thousand, Alex," including recent articles about shippers "falling all to pieces because they're having a hard time getting freight covered during the post-ELD...
View ArticleUpdating the info on Dock411
Enhancements to the Dock411 app for crowd-sourcing/vetting shipper and receiver dock and other info are coming at MATS 2018.
View ArticleShipwell.com freight platform launched
For small fleets and independent owner-operators, the new Shipwell.com platform is anchored by a mobile app and web-based dashboard with a variety of tools that offer carriers opportunity to negotiate...
View ArticleHighway robbery: Ask the tough questions during negotiations to root out the...
There’s plenty truckers can do to avoid getting involved with the crooks among brokerages.
View ArticleHighway robbery: A clouded transparency
You think you’re all set: After 120 deadhead miles, you’re almost to the pickup — when the broker calls. The load’s canceled, he says, and $150 truck-ordered-not-used (TONU) is coming your way. ......
View ArticleFaces of the Road: Open-deck specialized hauler Randy ‘Kemosabbi’ Cunha
Do shippers and in-house brokers have an interest in seeing to it that their freight bill isn't financing someone's Maserati? "Shippers need to become more educated about what happens to these loads...
View ArticleHow to blow the whistle on problem shippers/receivers when delays force...
A way to hold shippers and receivers accountable for delaying you into an hours violation that will require drivers doing something that hasn't exactly been easy for a fed-up group of late: working...
View ArticleRise of the ‘shipper of choice’ phrase, particularly when it involves truck...
In addition to the case of shipper Unilever’s Newville, Pa., facility, which I wrote briefly about last week, there are plenty other shippers and receivers who do make parking options available to...
View ArticleDon’t have to be a ‘one-and-done’: Know your customer to survive/thrive in...
For most new independent owner-ops, emphasizes Kevin Rutherford in this edition of Overdrive Radio, the customer (fundamentally the entity that pays your business for its service) is one, a few or...
View ArticleBlockchain to undergird GoLoad payments
GoLoad is provided as an optional service to Konexial’s My20 ELD, dynamically matching drivers with extra hours and capacity with available loads from shippers. Shippers and carriers utilizing the...
View ArticleFood Safety Modernization Act’s requirements for perishables haulers, and...
Much of the burden of FSMA-related compliance falls on food shippers. But there's evidence of a new willingness of shippers/brokers to use contracts to "cram down" liability on carriers, with potential...
View ArticlePOLL: How common is automatic location information sharing in your operation?
As package tracking becomes more ubiquitous in the consumer world, shippers/receivers are demanding such tracking from their transport service providers as a matter of course -- how often do you find...
View ArticleThe ‘Amazon effect’ and opportunities for small fleets, owner-ops who can...
The 'big A' and its effect on the competition -- service demands with tightened delivery windows and the like -- offers opportunities for small fleets/owner-ops and/or brokerage partners who can stand...
View ArticleFMCSA allows personal conveyance use from a shipper/receiver to a parking...
The FMCSA finalized changes to guidance around the 150-air-mile-radius ag hours of service exemption and use of the personal conveyance provision. Most significantly, off-duty travel to a safe resting...
View Article‘Shipper of choice’ phrase on the rise, but what about its negative?
How does 'shipper of last resort' sound? A talk with Old Time Express small fleet owner-operator Mark White about pay-to-park regardless of any reservation and the ever-growing seeming practice of...
View ArticleMore on personal conveyance in the hours of service with Roadcheck a day away
Hours of service violation data suggests continuing fall in violation numbers with ELD use; addressing a couple queries related to new personal conveyance guidance; and will inspectors be up-to-date on...
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