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Business

The coming of blockchain

Carriers, manufacturers and other trucking players are flocking to an emerging ‘distributed ledger’ approach to online business. Here’s how it could affect owner-operators.

January 5, 2018

Business

Dodging the middleman: On-demand freight matching progress report

On-demand load-matching services are seeing some success circumventing traditional brokers, promising gains for owner-operators in rates, freight availability and productivity. While no one service will be ‘Uber for all’ in the fragmented brokerage market, technology used by services large and small is moving in the same direction.

March 3, 2017

Channel 19

‘Legitimate freight options’ — old ways in new times

There’s many ways to skin the cat on freight — in response to a reader question about legitimate freight options, an update on newer load boards/marketplaces and mobile-optimized brokerages and a revisit to tried-and-true methods, doing the hard work, etc. …

November 8, 2016

Business

Convoy tech-enabled brokerage inks deal with Unilever to handle ‘millions’ in freight in 2017

The Convoy deal with shipper Unilever is victory for a young brokerage operating in something of a nontraditional way, enabled by technology to streamline elements of the freight transaction (think “uberization of trucking”) — in an increasingly crowded market.

November 3, 2016

Overdrive Extra

Brokers and owner-operators: A view from the other side

Lies. Late payments. Ridiculously low payments. No payments. Owner-operators’ brokerage horror stories are legion, but how does the process look from the broker’s perspective? Max Heine visits Birmingham-based TLS to take a look.

October 19, 2016

Business

Building the customer base: Work the relationship for the long term

Working the spot market via load boards, you may never lay eyes on the face of the freight broker. By contrast, going after direct shipper contracts is largely an exercise in long-term relationship building.

January 7, 2016

Channel 19

Alert: Brokerage fuel-advance scams on the rise with sophistication of identity thieves

Thieves posing as both brokers and carriers, and in some cases successfully claiming old or even active authorities for themselves, are increasingly using this scam to nab unearned fuel advances before disappearing.

November 24, 2015

Business

Con-way acquired in $3 billion deal, will be rebranded as XPO Logistics

The acquisition will make XPO the second largest less-than-truckload carrier in North America, the company says. Con-way Freight, Menlo Logistics, Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal will all be rebranded as XPO Logistics.

September 10, 2015

Business

Keychain Logistics built to show ‘what could be the future of trucking’

Keychain’s automated brokerage aims to be “one central access point [for operators] to manage their money and manage their gig.”

April 7, 2015

Channel 19

ATTN brokers: Poll on broker bond being circulated

The Association of Independent Property Brokers and Agents is circulating a poll on LinkedIn meat to probe thoughts of current members of the Transportation Intermediaries Association on the highway bill measure to increase the minimum broker surety bond requirement to $75,000. We reported on the measure as it was in conference between House and Senate […]

July 16, 2012