POLL: Have you filed a complaint under the rule protecting drivers from broker/shipper/carrier attempts to coerce a violation?
Proposed in tandem with the ELD mandate, the prohibition against entities coercing or attempting to coerce drivers to violate a regulation with threats of punitive action (withholding work/payment, disciplinary measures, and the like) has been active s…
New low-cost payments/collections platform geared toward small biz
The Melio payments/collections service offers small trucking businesses and brokers the ability to cut a check or directo deposit to a vendor from a bank-account/debit source for no fee — 2.5 percent in the case of a credit card. Similar terms apply f…
Cost control and other best practices for owner-operators
This GATS session of Overdrive’s Partners in Business addressed the broad topic of best practices for owner-operators. Controlling costs is perhaps the most effective strategy for success in trucking, panelists noted — not only does every saved dollar…
C.H. Robinson updating ‘Carrier Advantage’ incentive program for partner owner-ops and fleets
Since introduction in 2016, the Carrier Advantage program for first access to freight has updated its internal metrics — on which participating carriers’ scores in it are based — on a quarterly basis. In the new year, that scoring will move to being …
Revisiting the soft-market banana peel — freight relationships paying off for some
Randy Carlson “will have had my operating authority for 25 years” come next May. Right now, “trucking is the best it’s been in that entire 25 years” in general terms, he says, despite the slowdown for so many in the spot market, illustrating the value …
Rebooting Riteload, take two: Last no-broker board standing?
Newly re-brand Riteload (from “MyRiteload”) might well be the one of the last platforms still pursuing that “elusive holy grail” of shipper-direct, brokerless matching we once wrote about. They’ve relaunched a website, changed plenty, and hired an exec…
A Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business
Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of the perhaps No. 1 reason owner-ops go out business…
England Logistics’ new tracking, matching platform
The Trucker Tools company announced England Logistics had signed on to the Trucker Tools platform and implemented several of the Salt Lake City-based brokerage’s cloud-based freight-match and load-track applications and tools.
When ELD data sharing provides too much insight
The possession and use of massive amounts of data can change traditional balances of power in rates, negotiations and direct contracts. There’s potential for carriers’ information to be used against them, should brokers or shippers be able to establish…
Gorilla Safety ELD integrates tracking tech
ELD provider Gorilla Safety has integrated the Project44 tracking platform for shippers and brokers to allow Gorilla Safety’s customers to meet increasing load-tracking demand.