uShip

Mar 20, 2014

This online marketplace often described as “eBay for freight” allows individual shippers to post freight for bid by owner-operators, including hotshot operators. uShip’s mobile app allows access to the marketplace and its many tools via operators’ smartphones.

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The Business Manual for Owner-Operators

Overdrive editors and ATBS present the industry’s best manual for prospective and committed owner-operators. You’ll find exceptional depth on many issues in the 2021 edition of Partners in Business.

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