Tag: load matching: Page 5

Channel 19

Load, self-dispatch automation: Heads up on two services

Introducing DashHaul.com and Comfreight.com, two more load matching services aimed at involving direct shippers and great automation of the process.

June 19, 2014

Business

New shipper-carrier connection tool

The Go By Truck online freight management application bills itself as “automated freight brokering” — the company also offers a referral-bonus program for any user of the system.

January 23, 2014

Business

New load profitability planner

123Loadboard.com launched a load planning function that takes into consideration driving time, deadhead mileage, fuel and toll costs toward a goal of stringing together hauls for maximum profitability. The “Load Planner” reduces the time required to locate a sequence of the highest potential paying loads to plan a trip without having to perform countless load searches. “The […]

July 31, 2013

Channel 19

More ‘loads 2.0’

Tech company Kaazing is building an online-communications enhancement to brokerage Allen Lund Co.’s management software to streamline/enhance shipper-broker-carrier communications and load negotiation/selection.

May 13, 2013

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

Voices

Poll: How do you use online load-matching services/tools?

March 8, 2013

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

Business

Getloaded introduces e-mail alerts

A new feature from Getloaded.com enables load searches to be saved and set up to email operators when new loads are posted.

February 27, 2013

Overdrive Extra

World’s Toughest Trucker contestants at Great West

Drivers Jason Johnson and William Carlos “L.A. Rookie” Weekley (pictured) will be joining representatives of the Truck It Smart load matching service at their booth in Las Vegas at the Great West Truck Show, beginning Thursday. Not only have both drivers proven they can hang hauling loads in the Australian Outback and in the Himalayas, […]

June 12, 2012

Channel 19

New iPhone app from Load Delivered Logistics 3PL

Carriers utilizing the Load Delivered Logistics provider for loads now have access to the company’s freight pool via an iPhone and iPad app that the company says provides not only the ability to view and bid on available freight but includes robust filtering tools. Carriers can search for shipments by using a variety of criteria, […]

February 9, 2012

Channel 19

Want a first look at TruckersEdge’s new mobile site?

All owner-operator subscribers to the TruckersEdge.net load-board service from TransCore can look forward to a new smartphone-optimized mobile site to launch officially late this year or early next, says Transcore product manager Scott McCollister. The screenshots here from the html5 app that enables the enhanced look and feel of the board on all major smartphone […]

November 9, 2011

Channel 19

New freight-finding Android app from ATS

A new freight matching app for owner-operators and other carriers comes by way of Anderson Trucking Service’s brokerage wing, ATS Logistics. It didn’t arrive in time for my cover story in the November edition of Truckers News, a survey of on-highway apps making life easier for drivers on the road today, so I’m sharing here. […]

October 27, 2011