When you’re a one-truck owner-operator or a small 3–5 truck fleet, your morning rhythm is clockwork: coffee, pre-trip, open the load board, refresh, refresh again, stare at the rates, call brokers, ...

Load board company Cargado gained $12 million through a recent funding round with the aim of bolstering its cross-border freight marketplace, the company announced April 7. The startup firm, which ...

More owner-operators are leaving their laptops at home and doing business on the road – including load-finding – exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. When 4B Transportation owner-operator ...

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.

Quick Transport Solutions (QuickTSI) has launched a new load board for anyone looking to match available trucks to loads. The board offers users the ability to post loads or trucks, and find trucks or ...

KeepTruckin has launched the Smart Load Board, a freight matching solution designed to help carriers find the right loads faster, the company announced. The Smart Load Board aggregates thousands of ...

DAT, a business unit of TransCore, announced that 25 percent more equipment types are available on its DAT 3sixty and TruckersEdge load boards to help flatbed and other specialty load providers — ...

“I’m not some college kid coming into a big cubicle farm office. I came in from a driver’s seat.” –Brian Hardman, Fulmer Logistics I had a chance to catch up with the go-to broker from my owner-op ...

Truckstop.com has launched the freight industry’s first load board exclusively for dry vans, aiming to provide an affordable edge for owner-operators and small fleets. The new platform starts at $35 ...

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 — ...

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 ...