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Electronic Logging Devices

Hopes and hazards in using ELD data: Detention reduction

With wells of data at their fingertips, ELD providers are beefing up offerings to their customers, with potential to reduce wasted time and improve load choices. However, the privacy tradeoffs can cut into an operator’s competitive edge.

June 24, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Missing reins in an emerging marketplace for ELD data

Until regulations, legislation or court cases set guidelines for data privacy, “it’s kind of ‘what you sign up for is what you get,’ ” says Eric Witty of ELD supplier Trimble. “If you don’t read the fine print in an agreement you’re signing,” you might be giving a provider the right to freely share.

June 10, 2019

Channel 19

Time and cost, redux: Where the owner-op is the smartest guy — in a roomful of carrier execs

So, what is your time worth? Turns out, it’s likely a lot more owner-operators have a clear sense of that than fleet execs when it comes to the trucking business.

June 4, 2019

Business

BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers

BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.

April 24, 2019

Business

KeepTruckin to leverage ELD data for freight matching, detention pressure

A new tool is on the near-term horizon for KeepTruckin users offering insights into shipper/receiver facilities, also a “Smart Load Board.” KT also has expanded a small brokerage it bought last year, putting the company in a position of competition with its ELD users, or at least those carriers’ current brokers.

April 12, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Does your ELD provider provide an avenue for you to opt out of sharing location/other data with them?

Different providers take different approaches to the employment of user data for internal purposes — is it clear via policy that your ELD data is not being used internally by the provider, or does the provider at least give a clear avenue for opting out of any internal company use?

April 11, 2019

Business

Truck posts up, spot rates flat in the last week

But not for flatbed, which gained 6 cents per mile as a national average rate. Spot volume fell 2 percent during the week ending April 7, while a 9 percent increase in available capacity in the form of trucks posted kept van and refrigerated rates from moving.

April 11, 2019

Business

ATBS owner-op income benchmarking conference call rescheduled for this Wednesday

ATBS’ annual owner-op benchmarking study provides income averages for a variety of segments and other analysis, against which owner-operators can analyze their own performance.  During the call, Todd Amen will provide insight on 2018 average miles driven, net income, fuel mileage and freight rates, among other things.

March 18, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Trucker Tools, Keller integrate ELD for tracking

Mobile-based tracking and freight-match service provider Trucker Tools and compliance products purveyor J.J. Keller & Associates have begun a partnership to speed up delivery of and refine load location information moving to freight brokers and shippers from independent truckers and fleet operators.

March 12, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Further dissection of post-ELD mandate crash rates, and the blues of Watermelon Slim

The Overdrive Radio podcast highlighted a recent study around potential safety-sensitive impacts of the ELD mandate. Get more details on it here on Overdrive.

February 8, 2019

Business

Covering your tracks: The brave new world of ‘freight visibility’

As load tracking systems have proliferated and evolved, angst over their intrusion, as well as opportunities for owner-operators to benefit from them, have been on the rise.

December 4, 2018

Business

Lytx identifies five riskiest highway segments

Lytx used data from its dash cams to identify the nation’s most dangerous half-mile segments, along with the days and times when most collisions occur.

November 2, 2018