Tag: brokers: Page 24

Business

CSA priorities include addressing concerns of small carriers, crash accountability, agency says

FMCSA also announced plans to launch a new version of the DataQs website for challenging inspection violations and crash assignments as early as the coming weekend.

April 22, 2013

Channel 19

‘We’ve got truckers! 20% off!’

Not a post about some back-page classified from a fly-by-night broker using cheap-freight, low-pay scabs to entice unknowing shippers… just an installment in the annals of U.S. fashion.

April 18, 2013

Business

Inconsistent enforcement: CSA vs. the independent

In the two years since CSA’s advent, the smallest carriers have had a much greater chance of getting inspected and put out of service than drivers and trucks of the largest carriers.

March 14, 2013

Business

How-to: File against a broker’s bond

Federal rules pertaining to broker surety filings are in flux following congressional action last year that raised the minimum bond from $10,000 to $75,000. Still, basic procedures for filing are expected to remain.

March 8, 2013

Voices

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

March 8, 2013

Custom Rigs

Video, pics: Custom 1988 Freightliner

Davis custom-built the FLD after locating it in a salvage yard in 2000 — today he hauls reefer freight with it primarily between Illinois, Texas, Florida and his home base in Michigan.

February 21, 2013

Voices

Operators losing business because of CSA

Data quality and negative business impact stood out as key operator concerns as readers responded to early-2013 CSA reporting.

February 19, 2013

Voices

Poll: Have you ever filed a claim on a broker’s surety bond?

January 8, 2013

Regulations

Plaintiffs’ written arguments filed in CSA suit

A group of carriers, brokers and other trucking stakeholders filed written arguments in its case against FMCSA alleging agency overreach with its May CSA guidance.

January 3, 2013

Channel 19

One hauler’s rate benchmark and more on pricing

Two operators share views on methods toward boosting rates to profitable levels — one offering a perspective in favor of price re-regulation.

December 20, 2012

Channel 19

Don’t pay for the privilege to haul

Second Wind Transport independent owner-operator Greg Trott was offered a load recently he would have paid out of pocket to haul — had he made the wrong decision and taken it.

December 11, 2012

Voices

Reader: FMCSA attacks safety ‘from the wrong end of the beast’

“If rates were up where they should be, drivers wouldn’t have to complain about receiving and loading fees one bit.”

December 3, 2012