Load by phone: An automated future for online load selection?

New Freightopolis automated freight booking engine A brand-new service based in Canada but covering U.S. markets as well is Freightopolis, which is selling itself as "eliminating the broker" from the carrier-shipper transaction with an online-database-based solution to ...

Load by phone: How operators are using online tools

For the previous part 1 of this three-part series, follow this link. Owner-operator Cody Blankenship is among the 14 percent of owner-operators who view load boards primarily as avenues toward working more directly with trusted ...

Is trucking ready for more freight? ATA says so, despite infrastructure hazards

The expanded Panama Canal is set to open in 2015 and is expected to bring with it an abundance of freight for the U.S. trucking industry. How ready is the industry to take on the challenge? According ...

Load by phone: Legacy boards add access tools

More owner-operators are leaving their laptops at home and doing business on the road – including load-finding – exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. Cody Blankenship's Kenworth tractor and reefer trailer When 4B Transportation owner-operator Cody ...

Getloaded introduces e-mail alerts

With Getloaded E-Mail Alerts, the load board's account holders can save a load search and receive alerts via e-mail any time a new load is posted that matches their search criteria. The feature's specifically designed ...

Atlas Van Lines: What states are hot — and not

Monthly tonnage index up year over year 4.1%

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index was unchanged in July after increasing 1.1 percent in June. In July, the adjusted index stayed at 118.8. Compared with July 2011, the adjusted index ...

Monthly freight index down in June, up year over year

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry fell 0.1 percent in June from May, following no change in the index from April to May, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau ...