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Contract opportunities, strategy shifts for the smallest carriers
In addition to direct freight contracts, COVID-19 has opened myriad other new opportunities for nimble small fleet owner-ops, some with brokers. Read more here.
November 20, 2020
Business
Can owner-operators crack the contract-freight nut?
Contracted freight provides owner-operators with an avenue for growth and stability. Could owner-operators crack the contract-freight nut? Find out here.
September 23, 2020
Partners in Business
Owner-op income for 2020 a mixed bag, but plan for downside, more uncertainty
Reefer's up, flat's down, and the spot market's volatility is cycling faster than ever, said Todd Amen, president of ATBS, to start off Overdrive's GATS Week.
August 25, 2020
Channel 19
What Isaac Ho did to prepare for the rates crash on the spot market
The past year’s fortune — and recent rates struggles, with so many others in spot freight — for one young own-authority business, with a keen eye toward controlling costs to get through any lean times. No. 1 action taken: He paid off his used-purchased 2015 Volvo entirely.
April 29, 2019
Business
Engage.Bid tool can be effective for small carriers working large-shipper RFPs
Devliering the ability to “price with conviction” is the goal of the tool, released by TMW last year — it enables carriers to pull shipper RFPs’ lane-by-lane requests for rate bids into a proprietary module and apply analysis tools. Then output bids quickly back to RFP lane files, speeding up the process.
August 22, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
ELDs’ capacity squeeze assumption no. 2: Flight from the industry
Will owner-operators and other drivers leave the industry in large enough numbers to produce a significant capacity shortage in the spot market, driving up rates? Some believe so — long as stated intentions become reality — while skepticism is prominent as well.
August 8, 2017
Business
Spot market van rates showing strength — relatively speaking, that is
DAT Load Boards’ network showed July van rates above June’s, atypical this time of years. It’s one of a couple “good signs that we’re watching to see if they hold up,” says DAT’s Ken Harper. Flatbed picture remains volatile, though the Southeast is showing strength.
August 4, 2016
Channel 19
What sets your business apart?
In any bid to build long-term relationships with (and secure direct freight from) shippers, it’s a question “you have to be able to answer before” you embark, says Henry Albert: “Why you?”
November 30, 2015
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