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Guest Voices: Technology Provides Opportunity, Not Disruption to Freight Brokers
Jul 28, 2015
A new generation of apps is targeting industrial freight shipping, but there’s more to logistics than calling yourself an Uber for trucking. Talk about the disruption coming from technology applications is everywhere, and that’s especially true i
Trucking Trends: The Roadcheck Effect
Jun 09, 2015
If truckload capacity felt a little tight during the first week of June, it’s not because factory output spiked or there was a sudden bumper crop of tomatoes. It may have been the Roadcheck Effect.
Roadcheck: Higher spot rates? Maybe. Higher penalties? Definitely.
Jun 03, 2015
Does an annual truck inspection blitz impact the market? A new analysis by DAT Solutions says it’s likely, and spot rate increases are going to cost shippers and could signal an improving summer freight season. Coincidentally, the federal penalties
“Not your daddy’s load board!”
May 25, 2015
Since they were launched some 35 years ago, load boards that match freight with trucks on the truckload spot market have led mostly low-tech lives. The original monitors, resembling the familiar flight arrival and departure boards at airports, were l
US truck tonnage drops as economy stays stubbornly ‘soft’
May 19, 2015
U.S. truck tonnage dropped 3 percent in April from March, the American Trucking Associations said, as retail sales stayed flat and spring seemed to lack spring.
What to Look for in a Freight Rating System
May 06, 2015
It may seem a misnomer to label a $35 billion-a-year industry a "niche market." Yet that's how companies that provide freight rating software services describe their business. It is a specialized, albeit mature, field populated by relatively few vend
DAT Keypoint operating software, new features
Apr 20, 2015
More and more, says DAT General Manager Steve Blair, carriers unable for a variety of reasons to bring on drivers are moving to broker loads to provide customers service. “We’re seeing a growing trend in carriers running brokerages,” Blair says
LTL capturing more load-board mind share; spot market posts double that of truckload, DAT says
Apr 17, 2015
An executive of one of the leading truck spot-market load boards said loads with the characteristics of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments are populating its boards at twice the rate of truckload shipments, and today account for between 10 and 15 pe
On-demand load matching: Where it’s happening
Apr 01, 2015
The “Uberization” of freight has been big in the news following the rise of the Uber taxi service. If you’re not familiar with Uber, it allows a customer to click a smartphone app and, usually within a few minutes, an independent contractor arr
Online Load Boards Keep Freight Moving
Mar 31, 2015
Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — freight and a truck headed to the same place.