Spot freight ho-hum for a week-ending quarter, with high-demand bright spots for flats and reefers
Spot truckload freight posting volume was virtually unchanged during the week ending March 31, while the number of truck posts increased 5 percent, keeping van and reefer rates in check during the final week of March and Q1 2019.
Detention, parking, app overload: Hot-button issues for owner-ops explored in the context of tech’s sometime salve
Prasad Gollapalli, the founder and CEO of Trucker Tools, joined two owner-operators Thursday at MATS — Greenmiles small fleet owner-operator Shain Ferris and owner-operator Tamara Brock — for a lively discussion of these tough issues for owner-ops.
Convoy adds ‘automated bidding’ to in-app freight network
The Convoy freight platform launched automated bidding within its Request a Load feature, which U.S. carriers can use to input desired rates, favorite lanes and availability dates to allow the system to then automatically bid on loads.
Trucker Tools, Keller integrate ELD for tracking
Mobile-based tracking and freight-match service provider Trucker Tools and compliance products purveyor J.J. Keller & Associates have begun a partnership to speed up delivery of and refine load location information moving to freight brokers and shi…
The expansion challenge: Getting started with solid freight relationships
While most owner-operators have considered adding a truck to their business, many never try it, and few have sustained success for years. The challenges are many, but the rewards can be substantial for the right operators with a close eye on new opport…
Dump-truck loads platform comes to Alabama
The Trux dump-focused logistics platform is now available for loads originating in greater Birmingham and Huntsville. The launch is its first availability in Alabama and marks the third new metro launch for Trux in 2019, following Los Angeles, announce…
POLL: What’s your current hauling niche of choice?
Owner-operators, which of the choices in this poll — from basic general dry van, reefer and flatbed to more specialized heavy-haul, cargo-van expediting, livestock hauling and hotshot trucking — best describes your hauling niche?
Down another 4-5 cents/mile: Average spot rates in the last week, all segments
Truckload capacity, with more truckers advertising their availability to haul via the load boards, is building in the first weeks of 2019. National average spot rates for dry van, reefer and flatbed are going the other direction. Showing signs of the m…
POLL: What is the most difficult aspect of growing beyond a single truck as an owner-op?
Small fleet owners and those in the midst of an expansion plan beyond a single truck: Which of these areas — finding dependable drivers, dealing with more maintenance, equipment investment, insurance, administrative burdens and more — has proved the …
Govt. shutdown ripples out — though not toward military freight
And leased owner-op Jerry Boyd’s somewhat sanguine view on the year just ended, at odds with some independents running spot freight: “Everywhere you went,” Boyd said, “you could get a load of freight [with a good rate] – I’ve never seen it like that, j…