Welcome to the Monday edition of Trucker Tools’ “Where’s the Freight?,” your source for discovering where demand/rates for flatbed, reefer, dry van and power only capacity will be highest and lowest in the coming week. Over the next five to seven day period, you can expect to see demand for reefer capacity to/from Dodge City, Kan., increase significantly, while reefer…
Trucker Tools partners with leading technology companies to make your life easier as an independent owner operator, trucking company owner or a freight broker/3PL. Our newest integration partnership gives you another option for real-time, digital load tracking. With the integration partnership between Trucker Tools and AirIQ, loads can be digitally tracked in real-time not only with the Trucker Tools driver…
Happy Friday, friends, and welcome to the end of week edition of Trucker Tools’ “Where’s the Freight?,” a free market report for carriers and owner operators. The insights that you see in “Where’s the Freight?” are based on the real-time transactions taking place on our broker software platform, free carrier platform and mobile app. With this data, we can predict…
For the last 20 years, the trucking industry’s average deadhead rate has been 35 percent, meaning that most truckers/carriers like you are driving empty 35 percent of the time. While driving empty may not seem like a big deal especially when rates are high as they are now, deadheading represents lost revenue. Wouldn’t you like to see your revenue increase…
In a recent webinar in partnership with FreightWaves, Trucker Tools’ Founder and CEO Prasad Gollapalli spoke with Ryder Freight Brokerage’s VP and General Manager Dave Belter about how technology can improve carrier experience and increase service levels. The webinar, entitled The Technology Mall: Why This Consolidated, Best-of-Breed App Approach Is Helping Brokers Win Over Truckers in a Capacity-Constrained Market, highlighted…
Welcome to your mid-week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for owner operators and fleets. As we look ahead to the coming week, you can expect flatbed demand to remain relatively low in many markets. In fact, four of the five markets in today’s Five Coldest Markets list are flatbed markets. Today’s forecast also indicates that…
Every quarter for the last two years, we’ve invited thought leaders from across logistics to meet virtually and discuss the state of the industry. We recently invited our panel of experts to return to talk about the historic demand for trucking capacity and whether it will remain elevated throughout 2022. In the most recent webinar, Trucker Tools’ CEO and Founder…
Happy Monday and welcome to this Jan. 24, 2022, edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free market report for carriers and owner operators. As always, today’s edition of “Where’s the Freight?” tells you where you can expect demand and rates for flatbed, reefer, power only and dry van capacity to be highest, lowest, increasing and decreasing over the next…
Software platform integrations are a must-have for freight brokerage and logistics companies like yours. When different technologies can share data, your team members have the ability to access the information they need quickly and provide top-notch service to both your customers and carrier partners. Trucker Tools’ full stack integration partnership with Turvo brings the power of our Smart Capacity platform…
Happy Friday, y’all, and welcome to your end-of-week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for fleets and owner operators. “Where’s the Freight?” uses the data from Trucker Tools’ platforms to predict where demand/rates for flatbed, reefer, power only and dry van capacity will be highest and lowest in the coming week. Today’s forecast shows our Top…