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Load by phone: How operators are using online tools
Owner-operators’ use of online load services varies from occasional use to test the waters in an unfamiliar area to use as a primary freight resource.
April 15, 2013
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 brokers and valuable shipper customers. Today, Blankenship keeps the reefer trailer behind his 2003 Kenworth W900B loaded via relationships he’s developed with hard-won experience, using boards only sparingly.
Business
Load by phone: Legacy boards add access tools
Owner-operator access to Internet-based load boards continues to streamline with many operators now using smartphones to access one or another of industry-leading online freight resources.
April 11, 2013
My DAT Trucker Service app
Channel 19
Loads on your phone: More board, broker apps
Details of three more smartphone apps — CHRW Trucks, BulkLoadsNow, and Fikes’ Logistics’ custom app — for finding freight in your pocket.
March 4, 2013
Click through this screenshot to download the BulkLoadsNow app for Android phones (you’ll need an account with the board for it to be of any utility, though you can sign up within the app); for the iPhone version, search “BulkLoadsNow” in the App Store.
Business
Computing the owner-operator business — Part 2
Part 2 of this series features explores the landscape for web-based models for trucking management software for small fleets and independents — and the mobile integration on the way.
September 21, 2012
Software comparison chart
Business
TCA offers econ webcasts
The TCA is collaborating with Internet Truckstop and Big Truck TV to offer TCA members a twice monthly webcast highlighting truckload-specific economic and industry data
August 29, 2012
Channel 19
Whence the great rates?
Supplementing reporting on the No. 4 top owner-operator challenge — freight rates — here find an update on the state of pay and further anecdotes, information and perspective from trusted sources.
August 9, 2012
Upward Trend
Overdrive Extra
The short-lived $2 dry van
Dry van rates topped $2 in June — the first time since 2005 — and then toppled.
August 5, 2012
Great Dane
Business
Beefing Up the Bond
Small brokers oppose proposed regs to increase the minimum bond to $100,000 and add other owner-operator protection.
June 1, 2012
Overdrive June 2012 cover
Business
Internet Truckstop launches paid shipper rates
Internet Truckstop has added paid shipper rates as part of its existing RateMate service. The feature includes 30, 60 and 90 days of paid shipper rate data provided by thousands of shippers over the last few years. The database of companies submitting rates includes all aspects of the shipping industry and includes rates paid to […]
April 26, 2012
Business
Internet Truckstop designates women-owned firms
Load board service says it introduced this feature because more shippers and logistics companies have diversity expectations.
March 19, 2012
Business
Internet Truckstop: Load availability falls
Loads nationally decreased 11 percent in the latest week from the previous week, while load searching increased 11 percent.
December 13, 2011
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Business
LogBook
Highway bill includes truck parking elements, court orders release of truck stop tiger, owner-operator finalists named, medical certificate changes start Jan. 30, driver shortage to worsen says FTR and more industry news items are featured.
December 1, 2011
Tiger Untitled 1
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