Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

Digital freight broker Uber Freight recently announced it would open up a new platform it calls Broker Access, allowing fellow brokers to post loads and have its freight-matching technology work its ...

Hours-of-service compliance was the original intent of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule but shipment visibility could be the most valuable outcome, at least for shippers and freight brokers.

An open letter sent out over the wires from Haines City, Fla.-based Truck It Smart load board President and CEO Nick Shaughnessy revealed the No. 1 question the board gets from independent ...

When you’re a one-truck owner-operator or a small 3–5 truck fleet, your morning rhythm is clockwork: coffee, pre-trip, open ...

Truckload freight volumes tumbled in July from their highs in June—and the spot market continues its summer slump, DAT Freight & Analytics reported this week. “Demand for van and reefer services ...

If your entire week is shaped by whatever pops up on the load board that morning, you’re not running a plan—you’re reacting. That approach is what keeps carriers in the cycle of inconsistent weeks, ...

DAT Freight & Analytics has released “significant” updates to its DAT One load board, the company said. The new updates will help carriers find quality loads quickly, negotiate better rates with ...

This article appears in the Aug./Sept. 2011 issue of iTECH, published in the June 13 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Truckers and freight brokers who use ...

Upstarts Uber Freight and Convoy continued to gain market share among freight-matching rivals, as more traditional load boards saw their market share ebb in the face of more heavily digitized ...