POLL: Direct freight, minus the broker — is it a reality (or a goal) for your business?
Independents, is direct shipper contracting a reality for your business today? An aspiration? Or do you work through one or more brokers and like it that way? Weigh in here.
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This brain trick worsens the danger of cumulative sleep loss | Cabover ‘Joy Ride’ to the port
Small fleet owner Ben Cadle’s ‘Joy Ride 3’ cabover to the Port of Savannah, among other new business in this chaotic time. And: This simple illustration might get you thinking harder about bedrock safety, amid pressures.
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Spot freight: Load post volumes dip for fourth straight week
At the same time, both truckload rates and volumes broadly speaking are best seen as plateauing, as they remain in record-setting (high) territory.
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Can owner-operators crack the contract-freight nut?
Big shifts this year in what freight is moving where, and the extremity of rates volatility, have spurred new processes to engage shippers’ bids — where the lion’s share of available freight sits.
A ‘dating app’ for truckers to connect with shippers — and other tech potentially buoyed by virus effects
In a push for no-broker freight options, software provider LaneAxis is trying to deploy a network that connects shippers and carriers so they can “build relationships,” the company says. Likewise, other notes on tech buoyed by recent events…
Transparency in high demand, though seldom formally sought from this broker: Part 2 with Paul Berman
How often has Berman had an owner-operator request to review a freight transaction record under 371.3? Very rarely, and when it happens, his company requires an in-person review in an effort to control the information as much as possible to satisfy shi…
Amid anemic freight market, some independents see glimmer of hope
While COVID-19-related freight and rate problems persist, a recent Overdrive survey shows an increasing share of respondents is optimistic that conditions will improve soon.
Some markets show growth in freight volume, but rates still lag
The number of loads in the DAT network was up 33% last week, compared to the previous week, as fresh produce began to move and some states prepared to relax stay-at-home orders. Rates, however, remained low. More detail in this week’s report.
Words to truck by: ‘You will never, ever come out ahead running at a loss’
Refusing to do that, independents Daniel and Phyllis Snow have been at home for going on a month now as rates and available freight volumes have fallen and what Snow calls a veritable epidemic of “bad business” (extending from brokers to shippers and r…
A third of small fleets shut down as COVID-19 guts freight market
Overdrive’s fifth weekly survey of small fleets and independent and leased operators showed them sinking further into stagnation due to coronavirus cutbacks. Rating their status, a third of respondents chose “totally shut down,” and 55% picked “running…