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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

News roundup, Oct. 9: Loadsmart brokerage launches ‘Smart Match’, Landstar’s in-app fuel tools

Digital freight brokerage Loadsmart launched its “Smart Match” tool to boost speed and ease for carriers matching dry van, reefer and port drayage loads to their available trucks. Landstar’s contractor app features fuel-related tools to help owner-operators find the best-priced fuel with discounts.

October 9, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Can you hear me now? Anybody out there?

Gary Buchs on the “lost” art of communication: “When I think about the way brokered freight seems to be going — tap a button on a screen, get a load – the phrase ‘trust but verify’ comes high to the mind. Don’t give up on due diligence with the shippers and receivers in such transactions. … In small business ownership, everything is personal.”

October 4, 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

Voices

POLL: Have you filed a coercion complaint under the rule protecting drivers?

Proposed in tandem with the ELD mandate, the prohibition against entities coercing or attempting to coerce drivers to violate a regulation with threats of punitive action (withholding work/payment, disciplinary measures, and the like) has been active since early 2016. Have you ever filed a complaint with FMCSA under the rule?

September 26, 2019

Channel 19

New low-cost payments/collections platform geared toward small biz

The Melio payments/collections service offers small trucking businesses and brokers the ability to cut a check or directo deposit to a vendor from a bank-account/debit source for no fee — 2.5 percent in the case of a credit card. Similar terms apply for use of the service for easing collections between small businesses, whether carrier or broker.

September 24, 2019

Partners in Business

Panel talks controlling costs and other best practices for owner-operators

This GATS session of Overdrive’s Partners in Business addressed the broad topic of best practices for owner-operators. Controlling costs is perhaps the most effective strategy for success in trucking, panelists noted — not only does every saved dollar go directly to the bottom line, but many costs fall in areas owner-ops have the most control over.

September 2, 2019

Business

C.H. Robinson updating ‘Carrier Advantage’ incentive program for partner owner-ops and fleets

Since introduction in 2016, the Carrier Advantage program for first access to freight has updated its internal metrics — on which participating carriers’ scores in it are based — on a quarterly basis. In the new year, that scoring will move to being available and updated on a near-real-time basis.

August 23, 2019

Channel 19

Revisiting the soft-market banana peel — freight relationships paying off for some

Randy Carlson “will have had my operating authority for 25 years” come next May. Right now, “trucking is the best it’s been in that entire 25 years” in general terms, he says, despite the slowdown for so many in the spot market, illustrating the value of steady freight partners.

July 25, 2019

Channel 19

Rebooting Riteload, take two: Last no-broker board standing?

Newly re-branded Riteload (from “MyRiteload”) might well be the one of the last platforms still pursuing that “elusive holy grail” of shipper-direct, brokerless matching we once wrote about. They’ve relaunched a website, changed plenty, and hired an executive with deep trucking experience.

July 23, 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

Business

England Logistics’ new tracking, matching platform

The Trucker Tools company announced England Logistics had signed on to the Trucker Tools platform and implemented several of the Salt Lake City-based brokerage’s cloud-based freight-match and load-track applications and tools.

July 9, 2019