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Electronic Logging Devices

KeepTruckin gets $18M infusion

The infusion of venture-capital cash will allow the company, started as a smartphone-based logging platform in 2013, to take its current electronic logging device and small fleet management platform into new areas, including freight matching.

May 23, 2017

The KeepTruckin BYOD-style ELD “black box” connects to the ECM via cable and plugin. KeepTruckin recommends users mount the device in the dash to maintain a clear GPS connection. The device pairs with the KT app on a smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth connection.

Latest ‘uber for trucking’ launches app — this time, it’s from Uber itself

“Uber for trucking,” long considered a freight-matching unicorn, has come to a kind of fruition, with the ride-sharing giant today unveiling its brokerage’s Uber Freight matching app aimed at the owner-operator market with a focus on dry van and reefer loads.

May 18, 2017

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New uShip CEO Mike Williams hoping to increase business freight in principal marketplace

In an interview with Overdrive, Williams also stressed uShip’s Pro platform as one that could be adopted by more brokers and 3PLs as the tech backbone of their freight-management operations, as has been done in Europe by D.B. Schenker.

April 6, 2017

Truckloads opens up carrier visibility to brokers

Brokers that post freight on Trucker Path’s Truckloads platform can now search for verified carriers who could be a match to haul a load based on location, equipment type and the carrier’s safety rating.

April 4, 2017

The screen above shows an example broker search, providing real-time visibility into carrier location, equipment type and some compliance data.

Load boards’ mobile evolution

Trucker Path and its Truckloads app join major players DAT and Truckstop.com in an increasing number of operators’ load board experiences, optimized for mobile devices.

March 9, 2017

Screen grabs from relatively new DAT Load Board for Truckers (left, Android) and Truckstop.com Mobile (right, Android and iOS) apps.

Xypper launches new app/web-based brokered freight tool

The company Xypper, Inc., has developed and launched a smartphone-app- and web-based system optimized for independent owner-operators to receive brokered load offers based on geographical location and availability.

November 16, 2016

Brokers post their load information online though a web-based portal, and truckers are alerted via the app in real time.

‘Legitimate freight options’ — old ways in new times

There’s many ways to skin the cat on freight — in response to a reader question about legitimate freight options, an update on newer load boards/marketplaces and mobile-optimized brokerages and a revisit to tried-and-true methods, doing the hard work, etc. …

November 8, 2016

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MyRiteLoad shipper-carrier connection platform — no freight for the time being, company says

Another shipper-carrier connection platform subscription refunded. MyRiteLoad.com head, however, says he’s more than ever committed to pursuit of goal to “eliminate the brokers” and excess commissions on freight transactions.

October 25, 2016

‘No Broker Freight’ board: Service in limbo until further notice

A reader’s difficult experience with the load marketplace concludes; details on steps to take for others in similar situations; and a question: Anybody had success with a service marketing itself as connection to direct-ship freight?

October 18, 2016

Read that 2011 piece via this link.

TugForce freight platform opens pre-registration period

Latest ‘Uber for trucking’ launches pre-registration period for its mobile- and web-apps-enabled freight platform, which will be fully functional in May.

February 22, 2016

‘Uberization of Trucking’ reality more complicated than the hype

“Uberized” tech start-ups in load matching may be “missing the complexity of most freight moves and will lose a lot in the translation because of that.” –John Larkin of Stifel

November 16, 2015

Follow this link for all of our coverage of tech-enabled brokerage and other “uberized” freight matching services and attendant issues.

Digging into Truckstop.com’s chat negotiations feature

It’s not a public freight auction, contrary to road rumors: Dispelling some false notions about Truckstop.com’s fairly new online-negotiations tool with a close-up look.

November 5, 2015

Online negotiations in progress then show up in the negotiations grid, Bullard notes, and the back and forth between you and the broker “works much like a text message. You can have multiple postings out there at once, with multiple counter-offers coming in.”

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