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KeepTruckin load board makes its debut with brokerage partners
KeepTruckin's freight matching system was debuted with brokerage partners and is free to trucking users with KeepTruckin accounts. Details on Overdrive.
October 7, 2020
Business
The irony of e-logging and coercion: Complaints on a steady rise since mandate
Coercion complaints filed by drivers with FMCSA have gone up every year since the rule prohibiting coercion took effect in January 2016, more than doubling by the third year. That’s in spite of, or because of, another rule that same year, the ELD mandate.
December 10, 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
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
Overdrive Extra
Though fleets churn through drivers, there’s no evidence of ‘driver shortage,’ says DOL economist
Driver turnover is persistently high, and carriers have trouble filling seats. But that doesn’t mean there’s a shortage of those willing to drive a truck, says DOL economist Kristen Monaco. She penned a report in March painting the “driver shortage” as a myth — and tiffed ATA in the process…
September 12, 2019
Business
ATBS’ income benchmarking-data call
September 12, ATBS, the nation’s largest tax and business services firm dedicated to owner-operator businesses, is hosting a conference call and online presentation to present a variety of data toward answering the question, “Has 2019 been significantly worse for owner-operators?”
August 30, 2019
Business
Operators’ second quarter per-mile income defies slowdown
Even with the downturn that’s affected the freight market since late 2018, owner-operators saw a marked increase in net income per mile during the second quarter of 2019. That’s according to averages from thousands of owner-operator clients tracked by ATBS, a financial services provider.
August 28, 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
Electronic Logging Devices
The AOBRD-to-ELD shift: Data/edits and visibility at roadside
With AOBRDs, edits made in the back office as a general rule don’t present to the roadside officer. Under the ELD specification, however, data transmittal at roadside includes those edits. It also includes detailed records of the truck’s GPS positions, engine on-off records, engine hours and the like.
August 15, 2019
Business
Cargo Chief’s evolution toward multi-broker freight platform
Utilizing a myriad of sources for the carrier-provided data it makes available to brokers to save time in the process of matching with carriers on available loads, Cargo Chief’s C4 2.0 platform hopes to make good on a goal of greasing the skids for all freight transaction parties.
August 8, 2019
Overdrive Radio
A Truckstop in the halls of Congress, a hotshot carrier’s tech-informed business
Failure to fund road repairs, notes Truckstop.com’s Chief Relationship Officer Brent Hutto in this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, can hasten the incidence and increase the likelihood of the perhaps No. 1 reason owner-ops go out business — that’s a major mechanical failure, of course.
July 11, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
When ELD data sharing provides too much insight
The possession and use of massive amounts of data can change traditional balances of power in rates, negotiations and direct contracts. There’s potential for carriers’ information to be used against them, should brokers or shippers be able to establish the carriers’ operational patterns, among other drawbacks fueling some semblance of backlash.
June 27, 2019
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