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Electronic Logging Devices

Innovative pricing as ELD provider competition heats up

A few deals for qualifying drivers — from BigRoad, KeepTruckin, Magellan — sure to multiply among other providers with the raft of ELD providers out there. If you’re shopping, don’t be afraid to ask …

October 24, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs at the ‘right price’: No-monthly-fee e-logs explored

In the crowded ELD market, a few companies set themselves apart with systems requiring no monthly fee. Who they are, and considerations of support, availability and utility.

October 20, 2017

Business

Harvey effect: Texas rates climbing, diesel could jump 15-25 cents, high-dollar FEMA loads available

Per a seven-day rolling average maintained by load board DAT Solutions, van rates between Dallas and Seguin, Texas, (about a 250-mile run) have shot up 49 percent in recent days to a $3.46 per-mile average, with some loads paying above $5. More here on rates and fuel prices here…

August 31, 2017

Business

Lookin’ good? Spot market demand updates in flat, van, reefer

This week’s update shows spot market rates were up in anticipation of the holiday week this week. Most of the top lanes for all three major tracked segments (dry van, reefer, flatbed) were “lookin’ good, lookin’ good,” noted DAT’s Ken Harper attendant to this week’s load-to-truck demand maps and intel.

May 31, 2017

Business

Latest ‘uber for trucking’ launches app — this time, it’s from Uber itself

“Uber for trucking,” long considered a freight-matching unicorn, has come to a kind of fruition, with the ride-sharing giant today unveiling its brokerage’s Uber Freight matching app aimed at the owner-operator market with a focus on dry van and reefer loads.

May 18, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Will rates move in a positive or negative direction as a result of the ELD mandate?

What’s your view of the likelihood of a rates impact as a result of the ELD mandate — commentators have been on either side of the issue in recent time, some believing rates will rise, others doubting the projection.

May 1, 2017

Business

‘Show me the money’ – rates and pricing in the on-demand freight environment

Would-be freight market disruptors are attempting to provide a certain level of automation and data science into their pricing/rates that “better reflects the market” than what arises from the typical process, often tilted against carriers in one-on-one spot negotiations.

March 7, 2017

Business

‘Freight recession over,’ analyst says — flat, van, reefer demand updates

Following an “18-month malaise” in freight sparked by the collapse in oil prices at the end of 2014, says DAT analyst Mark Montague, the freight recession is now officially over.

January 20, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

uDrove updates pricing, plans for ELD

Says Truckstop.com’s Thayne Boren, general manager for the company’s mobile services, “We’ve gotten more aggressive in our pricing” — meaning it’s gone down considerably. Greater integration with other Truckstop.com services is coming.

March 7, 2016

Business

Van freight: Texas demand sees GATS effect, rates sag nationally, and volume rises

Volume ticked up for dry freight, but rates were lackluster in the past week. Some local markets with a higher van load-to-truck showed opportunity in these states: OR, WA, ID, WI, IN and PA.

September 3, 2015

Channel 19

Rates hall of fame: Top 10 U.S. states for outbound freight

Does knowing historical rate performance on average help you in your day-to-day negotiations and planning? Find 2014 top performing states and Q2 outbound averages nationwide here.

April 17, 2015

Channel 19

Rates, lanes on Labor Day weekend and beyond: A new resource

Where’d you load Friday? As owner-operator Chad Boblett of the Rate Per Mile Masters Facebook group and Rates and Lanes podcast notes, the answer probably had a lot to do with the rate you were able to negotiate for the long weekend.

August 30, 2014