An indie dispatcher’s growing pains meet an owner-op in search of service after ‘every man for himself’ pandemic crunch
New York-based Jose Williams was forced to turn to load boards to keep the business profitable following the pandemic hitting. As a lot has returned, not so his trade show customers. To help manage, he turned to this new dispatch platform, with mixed r…
Sell service, haul value, build relationships — words to the wise, from a longtime independent
Owner-op Artie Daniel’s built his business with a mind on selling his service to the customer, whether broker or shipper, and building solid connections, with close communication and always with an eye out for side opportunities for his one-man, two-tr…
‘It’s right there in the law’: Owner-operator talks forced ELD switch, pressing brokers on rates transparency
Independent operator Al Montano: Brokers “are supposed to provide (a shipper’s rate). As a trucking company and as a contractor, you have the right to take advantage of that and have the broker submit that info to you. It’s up to you.”
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TIA names new leadership as broker regs conflict takes shape
Anne Reinke’s hiring as President & CEO of the broker group comes amid conflict between truckers’ groups over transparency regs. In other news: 10,000th product Pete 579 Ultraloft goes to Long Haul Trucking; new service app from Hankook tire.
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The day an ELD mandate protestor and ELD provider visited the White House to talk brokers
Sounds like the set-up for a joke, yet in this Overdrive Radio edition owner-op Mike Landis and Ezlogz founder C.J. Karman narrate the story of how a May White House meeting came to be, culminating three weeks of protest with these continuing ripple ef…
POLL: Independents, how would you describe your principal freight sources — shippers, brokers, a mix?
For the independents/small fleet owners with authority among you: Are you working with one or more shippers/customers, a mix of brokers, a single broker? Weigh in via this poll.
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FMCSA investigating alleged broker transparency violations
The U.S. DOT has said it is investigating complaints filed against brokers by motor carriers, who allege violations of federal law that requires brokers to provide carriers records of what shippers paid for a load.
‘Brokers don’t set prices’ — Really?
As spoken by a true seller, or is it a buyer? Trucker Allan Lester weighs in on now-former TIA head Robert Voltmann’s video statement amid the furor over plummeting rates a month and a half ago. Also: the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program reach…
Sharing risk: Load factoring offers strategic value amid economic contraction
Customer stability can be hard to predict with a slowdown as severe as that induced by the COVID-19 crisis. In this week’s installments in the “Cash Flow Crisis” series, an exploration of factoring, which might be an effective cash- and risk-management…
Before you play the blame game, slow down, think, understand and ultimately save
Clifford Petersen’s meditation on a tough year thus far, and at least one easily implemented tactic toward maintaining — slowing the truck, as well as thought and careful communication, way down: “Eliminate stress through the business model, slow down…