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Business

New LoadPal invoicing app

The LoadPal app is made for the owner-operator as it offers a way to manage invoices to freight partners, streamline freight payment collections, and more.

July 9, 2018

Business

Landstar app helps optimize multi-leg runs

The Landstar Maximizer app, available for Android and iOS devices, is designed to help its leased owner-operators optimize revenue on multi-leg runs.

June 26, 2018

Business

Multiple-calculator app for dump owners

The Dump Truck Math app was designed with estimators, foremen and truck owners in mind and includes three core calculators, cheats aimed to arrive at accurate rates per ton or cubic yard, number of trucks needed, and haul cost difference between two sites.

May 4, 2018

Channel 19

Parking since the ELD mandate — what have you seen?

Have you seen greater parking stresses since the ELD mandate came into play? Dial our podcast line at 530-408-6423 to weigh in with a message. From his perspective, awareness of the parking problem, certainly, has risen as a result, says Delaware Sgt. Walter Newton. Also a reminder: A smartphone app alone will not get you to all the way to an ELD …

May 3, 2018

Business

Comchek Mobile streamlining load payment, other transactions for 5,000 new users monthly

Comdata’s wide presence in facilitating load payments/fuel advances has translated to perhaps unprecedented ability for the provider to leverage the transaction ease enabled by smartphones with appropriate security to help drivers and owner-operators “better maximize the use of their day,” company reps note.

March 1, 2018

Business

Digital broker’s freight platform expands

The Next Trucking tech-enabled brokeraged announced a $21M series B round of financing to expand the “trucker-centric” online freight marketplace it launched two years ago.

February 1, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Profit — what this trucking thing is all about: A new, simple freight-bid calculator app

In the latest Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet owner Scott Jordan intros the ICG ProfitCalc app for Android/iOS, a freight bidding app that allows users to input their own annual cost projections as a benchmark for load-by-load rate calculations, per-mile and per-hour, to ensure a chosen profit margin.

January 25, 2018

Business

Trucker Path acquisition by global company Renren to bring navigation, more to the trip-planning app

Meet Renren CEO Joseph Chen, who drove truck for a time as a young man and says the Trucker Path acquisition is intended to take the app and its affiliated services “to the next level,” Chen says. “I think that the next 20 years will be most exciting for the trucking industry globally as we gradually get more technology into the industry.”

January 12, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Skip that DVD rack and stream what you want

Though the many movie and TV-streaming apps now available offer a solution, only three in 10 Overdrive readers say they subscribe to a streaming movie/TV service. This video covers five apps for streaming commercial productions on phone, tablet or laptop.

January 3, 2018

Business

MyRiteLoad shipper-carrier freight platform ‘reboots’

MyRiteLoad hopes to fulfill the promise of what has been called the “elusive holy grail” of load matching, providing load-board-like spot market connections for independents and small fleets to direct shippers rather than brokers.

November 29, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Penske deploys ELD service for rental customers

The Penske Driver app is available for both Android and iOS/Apple devices. The app connects using Bluetooth inside Penske’s rental trucks to integrally synchronize with the truck’s engine, meeting ELD mandate requirements.

November 22, 2017

Channel 19

New app puts load tracking in the hands of independents

FreightPrint is out with a smartphone app and tracking service that harnesses the GPS and cellular communication capabilities of smartphones in order to put tracking tools and service into the hands of independents and small fleets.

November 13, 2017