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Channel 19

Loads availability looms larger for two heavy/oversize haulers

Two heavy/oversize drivers weigh in on the lack of load availability since the start of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic began. Details here on Overdrive.

April 7, 2020

Channel 19

Owner-op Rob Goodwin sees utility in no-broker, shipper-carrier connection platform RiteLoad

Owner-operator Rob Goodwin lauds growth in freight volumes and consistency in the shipper-carrier connection platform Riteload.

February 7, 2020

Voices

POLL: What’s been your recourse action when a broker doesn’t pay?

Whether taking it up with the shipper/receiver responsible on the loading, filing against the broker’s bond, reporting to DOT or other law enforcement agency for potential fraud, or filing a lawsuit: What have you done in the past when a nonpayment issue arises?

January 9, 2020

Business

How to file a coercion or harassment complaint

Filing a coercion complaint can be done via the FMCSA’s National Consumer Complaint Database in the “Driver” section. Also here, a look at the concentration of coercion complaints, by state, over the four years the Coercion Rule has been in place.

December 19, 2019

Business

Parties other than carriers now subject to enforcement under the coercion rule

One standout aspect of the coercion rule is that it marked the first time the FMCSA gained some authority to investigate and fine shippers and receivers not already under its regulatory purview. The rule also broadened agency authorities over brokers. Results, however, are a decidedly mixed bag four years in.

December 12, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

AOBRD-to-ELD: Tech providers on data handling, hours changes, improving core and ancillary functionality

“Nobody’s in a race to be regulated,” noted Pedigree Technologies CEO Wade Wilson, speaking with three other ELD providers in August on the subject of the AOBRD-to-ELD shift. While there’s certainly general antipathy among truckers to the mandate, a variety of business cases can be made for telematics technology.

October 10, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Can you hear me now? Anybody out there?

Gary Buchs on the “lost” art of communication: “When I think about the way brokered freight seems to be going — tap a button on a screen, get a load – the phrase ‘trust but verify’ comes high to the mind. Don’t give up on due diligence with the shippers and receivers in such transactions. … In small business ownership, everything is personal.”

October 4, 2019

Business

LaneHoney market data site updating in Oct.

The LaneHoney spot market data site intended to deliver information to all market participants, including independent owner-operators, notes its updated data engine will be available in preview to existing customers until October 15.

September 30, 2019

Voices

POLL: Have you filed a coercion complaint under the rule protecting drivers?

Proposed in tandem with the ELD mandate, the prohibition against entities coercing or attempting to coerce drivers to violate a regulation with threats of punitive action (withholding work/payment, disciplinary measures, and the like) has been active since early 2016. Have you ever filed a complaint with FMCSA under the rule?

September 26, 2019

Channel 19

New low-cost payments/collections platform geared toward small biz

The Melio payments/collections service offers small trucking businesses and brokers the ability to cut a check or directo deposit to a vendor from a bank-account/debit source for no fee — 2.5 percent in the case of a credit card. Similar terms apply for use of the service for easing collections between small businesses, whether carrier or broker.

September 24, 2019

Business

In ATRI survey, drivers report longer, more frequent detention at shippers/receivers

Respondents to the study indicated that more than a quarter of their dwell times within the year leading up to taking the survey lasted two or more hours, with 9.3% of delays lasting six or more hours. Both of these are increases from 2014, according to ATRI’s numbers.

September 4, 2019

Business

KeepTruckin ratings tool shows wait times at thousands of facilities, available to some ELD users

KeepTruckin’s Facility Insights tool and the window it gives KT ELD users into average wait times at shippers and receivers is now available to KT subscribers at a mid-tier subscription level (now called the “Pro” package).

August 23, 2019