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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

Business

Gorilla Safety ELD integrates tracking tech

ELD provider Gorilla Safety has integrated the Project44 tracking platform for shippers and brokers to allow Gorilla Safety’s customers to meet increasing load-tracking demand.

June 19, 2019

Business

The ‘Drive XPO’ app for freight

New numbers from the XPO Logistics broker/3PL show that, as of May, roughly 22,000 carriers were using its new Drive XPO smartphone app to search for loads and transact on XPO Connect, the company digital freight platform. The platform launched just more than a year ago.

June 14, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

A gold rush for ELD data

As the trucking industry reckons with the value of information spewing from millions of trucks, issues of privacy, disclosure and ownership rights, including fair compensation, remain to be resolved.

June 4, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs

Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederhold’s quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.

May 13, 2019

Voices

Rates hack: The spot market 3 o’clock hustle

Though it’s certainly lost some of its luster now that mandated electronic logging devices are putting more value on planning loads for maximizing time efficiency, this scheduling hack from independent Chad Boblett is simple enough. It hinges on an old cliché: The best things come to those who wait.

May 2, 2019

Business

BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers

BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.

April 24, 2019

Business

KeepTruckin to leverage ELD data for freight matching, detention pressure

A new tool is on the near-term horizon for KeepTruckin users offering insights into shipper/receiver facilities, also a “Smart Load Board.” KT also has expanded a small brokerage it bought last year, putting the company in a position of competition with its ELD users, or at least those carriers’ current brokers.

April 12, 2019

Business

Truckstop.com to use investment funds to expand carrier and broker product suite

The company doesn’t plan to pivot away from its core business of connecting brokers and carriers, said CEO Paris Cole. Rather, the investment will allow Truckstop.com to grow its product development team in the short term, says Cole, and, longer term, the capital will help the company to accelerate the rate at which it brings new products to market.

April 10, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Why pick a fight with the air? And: Downtime for the spot market 3 o’clock hustle

This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast comes as MATS continues in Louisville, with conversations with two owner-ops showing commonality between them in a willingness to be the contrarian in this loud age, on a variety of things — Chad Boblett and Henry Albert, on rates, ELDs, aerodynamics and more.

March 29, 2019

Business

Detention, parking, app overload: Hot-button issues for owner-ops explored in the context of tech’s sometime salve

Prasad Gollapalli, the founder and CEO of Trucker Tools, joined two owner-operators Thursday at MATS — Greenmiles small fleet owner-operator Shain Ferris and owner-operator Tamara Brock — for a lively discussion of these tough issues for owner-ops.

March 29, 2019

Business

Communication, staying up on rates trends are key in negotiating with brokers

Building connections with brokers, in addition to stronger rates, often leads to steadier lanes and routes and access to more loads and more favorable loads, said Brent Hutto of Truckstop.com and Tyler Johnston, a broker for Mercer.

March 28, 2019