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Riding the spot market boom

Higher than typical volumes on the spot market coupled with tight trucking capacity are improving the rate landscape. Independents: Identify high-demand freight situations and negotiate for top dollar.

October 1, 2014

Rising rates as of August 2014

Big data blowback: Trucking goes to Congress over CSA

Behind the CSA bill — H.R. 5532 would require FMCSA to revamp the CSA program, pulling scores and non-crash-associated data from public view in the meantime. Prognosis for the bill in the short term: Not good with a Democrat Party-controlled Senate, one watcher notes.

September 23, 2014

Broker charged with bribing National Guard officials for freight contracts

An Alabama-based freight broker has been charged with with two counts of bribery and two counts of fraud after investigators say he bribed two National Guard officials to steer military transport contracts to two carriers he represented.

September 10, 2014

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Rates, lanes on Labor Day weekend and beyond: A new resource

Where’d you load Friday? As owner-operator Chad Boblett of the Rate Per Mile Masters Facebook group and Rates and Lanes podcast notes, the answer probably had a lot to do with the rate you were able to negotiate for the long weekend.

August 30, 2014

DAT 8-23-14 line haul rates

Will FMCSA ‘un-ring’ the CSA alarm?

Reader Thomas Little may best have paraphrased the thoughts of many: With CSA, “FMCSA fully intended” to “let the industry do their policing for them. Spoon-feed the detailed data into the marketplace to drive consumer choice of motor carrier … and then stand back and pretend that wasn’t how CSA was supposed to be used… They won’t be able to unring that bell.”

August 27, 2014

Public scrutiny of safety ratings in the CSA SMS is live with the recent update to the public display. Placed front and center of a carrier’s front page in the CSA SMS now is carrier’s current safety rating, often at odds with what percentile rankings in the SMS seem to say about the carrier’s safety.

Part 2 of Mark White’s story

Mark White continues his story of how Old Time Express got out from their Conditional rating, truly earning the reinstatement to Satisfactory, he says.

July 8, 2014

Lawsuit over FMCSA guidance on CSA scores dismissed

In a brief to media and members, the board of the Alliance for Safe, Efficient and Competitive Truck Transportation reported that the suit they brought against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2012 had been decided in favor of FMCSA.

June 17, 2014

CSA’s Fallout: SMS/safety rating system disconnect compounds problems

While official safety rating element of FMCSA’s enforcement program remains, the CSA SMS runs alongside it, giving a more real-time window into inspections, violations and crashes. However, the difference between results produced by each is marked.

June 4, 2014

CSA’s Fallout: Scoring reliability woes dominate independents’ concerns

Overdrive’s 2014 CSA survey shows independents are most concerned about reliability of scores, but the system’s many flaws haven’t halted third-party use of the rankings in business decisions.

June 3, 2014

Legislation introduced to clarify broker/shipper carrier-selection requirements

TIA believes H.R. 4727 would remove the “confusing and conflicting vagaries” of CSA BASIC data as it relates to charges of the negligent selection of a carrier,

May 23, 2014

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Talk of broker transaction transparency continues

While skeptical voices were loudest following discussion of a move toward broker-carrier rate transparency, the conversation continues.

May 22, 2014

CSA: The difference (or lack thereof) a year makes

Report from the CSA Subcommittee to the MCSAC shows a somewhat different overall tune from the year prior as FMCSA retrenches in its commitment to the CSA program.

May 1, 2014

Clean inspection

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