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Voices

POLL: How many freight-rate negotiations do you conduct in a week?

Independents, how negotiation-heavy is your business when it comes to rates? This poll asks how many rate conversations you have in any given week with a broker or freight agent.

March 30, 2015

Voices

POLL: Best day of the week to negotiate for and book a load?

Independents, in your experience, what day of the week yields the best rates during broker negotiations? Tell us in this poll — further thoughts on the reasons why/anecdotes, sound off in the comments.

March 18, 2015

Business

‘Cheap diesel’ makes my eye twitch

“I think the FMCSA should implement a rule that says if anyone uses the argument that ‘diesel is cheap'” to justify low rates “they are rendered a swift and brutal throat punch.”

March 18, 2015

Business

How much is your time worth?

“I can’t rightfully condone Burger King bag enemas, but I can tell you to ask for detention pay…. Your time is valuable, too.”

March 4, 2015

Channel 19

Strike! For .. lower freight rates?

Errant headline from a Colombian driver strike. Also: More on fuel surcharges: 3 in 4 readers collecting/charging fuel surcharges per mile report a base mpg between 5 and 7.

February 24, 2015

Business

Trucking 101: The difference between a freight forwarder and a broker

The primary, though not the only, difference between forwarders and brokers is that a freight broker never takes possession of items being shipped.

February 23, 2015

Business

Broker compensation analysis: What to expect long- and short-term

“Variation” is the watchword in any analysis of broker compensation.

January 6, 2015

Business

Roads not taken, part 1: Owner-operator turned broker, freight agent

While there’s no guarantee a nondriving job will boost your earnings, plenty of truckers have found good money, opportunity for advancement and better quality of life after coming off the road. This series looks at several opportunities.

January 6, 2015

Channel 19

The rest: Tying the knot on 2014

The third and final part of the Channel 19 2014 year in review, threading the needle through the most-read posts to the blog, here with an emphasis on rates and pay, parking and more.

December 30, 2014

Business

‘Hotshot on steroids’: Straight Forward Transportation of Ohio

Sue and Kevin Nelson’s 2012 single-drive-axle Freightliner Columbia is Straight Forward Transportation’s “hotshot on steroids,” says Sue Nelson, acquired to augment a business founded the non-dually drive axle of a Ford F250 pickup, still in operation.

December 4, 2014

Business

Geographic specialization, with Brady’s Hotshot Hauling owner-operator Jeff Ward

Atlanta-area owner-operator Jeff Ward started his hotshot business with a diesel F450 cab and chassis outfitted with a flatbed body and gooseneck-type hitch.

December 2, 2014

Custom Rigs

Former drivers, raise hands high!

Former owner-operator Bryan Lundberg’s latest step on the path through the trucking world is as a broker. His last Kenworth, though, is no less special to him. Photos from back when here.

November 20, 2014