Tag: crowd sourcing

Channel 19

New tools toward broker transaction transparency, truck stop amenities status

Trimble's a new interactive 'COVID-19 Safe Havens' status map for truck-stop locations and OOIDA's template for broker transaction details review request.

May 13, 2020

Channel 19

Report your boot: Mich. small fleet owner crowd-sourcing booting incidents

Leander Richmond launched ReportaBoot.com, intended to collect booting incident reports directly from drivers/carriers from the last few years, and in ongoing fashion — with a mind toward spurring action to tamp down particular practices of the “parking lot pirates,” as he calls a new breed of ‘parking enforcement’ providers.

May 21, 2019

Channel 19

Custom mapping app Trucker Notes designed by an independent to save parking information

Debbie Desiderato is the owner-op behind the free app, launched within the last few months. She came to it with hopes of creating a way for herself and other truckers to save their notes about locations visited along their routes, chiefly nontraditional parking places but also plenty more, as she’s found utilizing the app.

December 12, 2018

Business

Crowd-sourcing load/unload location info with Trelp

Information available to access or add within Trelp includes the location of nearby parking, precise directions to and around the facility, location of unmarked low clearances, contact person at facilities and more.

January 15, 2016

Channel 19

Crowd-sourcing in a perfect world (And: New vid from Tex Crowley)

More on crowd-sourcing — how about building a perfect truck stop via reader recommendations? Let’s roll….

August 16, 2014

Channel 19

Missing Truck Driver Alert Network finds helpful fleet partner

When Kari and Lee Fisher joined the Lightning Logistics fleet, they found no small measure of support from fleet co-owner Joe Hammerslough and others there.

August 5, 2013

Channel 19

The debate over fighting broker fraud

The high-profile case of fraudulent broker Kulwant Singh Gill, who last week was sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to his carrier victims, has owner-operators and industry watchers debating just how to solve the problem of fraud in transportation for once and all. A big part of that debate is […]

April 12, 2012

Channel 19

Alert network for missing drivers formed

Any time a driver goes missing out on the road it’s a nightmare for back-office personnel, friends and, of course, the family back home. A recent case spawned a Facebook group dedicated to resolving disappearances more quickly through the crowd-sourcing that online social networks have made easy. The Missing Truck Driver Alert Network was […]

February 16, 2012