With trucks carrying more than 15 billion tons of freight a year, the challenges of matching loads to available motor carriers gets more critical every year. When you add today’s hours-of-service restrictions and the need to strategize available capacity with...
With today’s tight profit margins, motor carriers can’t afford to deliver loads and then wait 30 or 60 days to get paid – or worse, not get paid at all. When you’re trying to collect on freight bills to maintain your revenue and a freight broker “disappears” or stops...
With electronic logging devices (ELDs) in use on all trucks after the FMCSA mandate is fully implemented, the trucking industry will see a variety of changes. Some of the hours-of-service changes could prove detrimental to motor carriers operating on thin profit...
For years, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has been facing pushback from the trucking industry over mandated electronic logging devices, but after all the appeals and protests, the time is finally set. Starting December 17, 2017, long haul...