Happy Friday and welcome to your T.G.I.F. edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for owner operators and trucking companies. In every edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” you’ll learn where demand and rates will be high and low over the next five to seven days. This week, you can expect reefer demand to remain high in several U.S.…
Time really is money in the transportation business, which is why Trucker Tools partners with other leading technology providers in the industry. We know that when our technology can “talk” to other technologies, it saves valuable time and everyone wins – including freight brokers, 3PLs, drivers, carriers and shippers. Trucker Tools’ broker load tracking platform Smart Capacity integrates with 89 different electronic logging devices, giving…
Last month, we launched the trucking industry’s first-of-its-kind Driver Loyalty Program that rewards truckers like you for using Trucker Tools’ free driver app. With our new Driver Loyalty Program, you earn free TruckerPoints for taking certain actions in the driver app. These can include booking loads, sending brokers digital rate quotes, tracking loads, uploading proof of delivery documents and more. The TruckerPoints that…
Welcome to your Wednesday edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for carriers and owner operators. Over the next five to seven days, the Montgomery, Ala., power only market is projected to be the hottest freight market across the United States and Canada — which is why it’s number one in today’s Top Five Hottest Markets list. This…
As an owner operator or someone working in a trucking business, you likely spend more time than you realize negotiating and finalizing rates with freight brokers and logistics companies. You must make sure that the rate per mile on a given load will cover expenses and calculate a possible backhaul loss if you’ll be coming out of a market with low-paying reloads. Trucker…
In our recent conversation with owner operator Kim Loescher, Kim shared what it’s been like to make the switch from company driver to owner operator. After working as a company driver for many years, Kim last year decided to start running as an owner op and today is operating under the authority of a friend and former colleague who owns a trucking…
Happy Friday and welcome to the newest edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight report for drivers and fleets. This free freight report tells you where demand for flatbed, reefer, power only and dry van capacity will be highest and lowest across the United States and Canada over the next week. This week, you can expect demand and rates for…
Big news! FreightWaves SONAR rate data is now available for free for truckers in Trucker Tools’ driver app. Trucker Tools’ integration partnership with FreightWaves SONAR’s brings real-time rate and lane insights from the SONAR forecasting platform directly to the driver app. For each non-Book It Now® load that you view in the Trucker Tools driver app, SONAR data on the current average…
Welcome to the newest edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market forecast for carriers and owner operators. In today’s freight market forecast, you can see that our Top Five Hottest Markets list is dominated by reefer and power only markets. Once again, the Texarkana, Texas, reefer market comes in at number one in our Top Five, projected to see the…
Industry-leading provider of fleet management and Hours of Service (HOS) solutions will now integrate with Trucker Tools Smart Capacity® platform, adding enroute updates from in-cab ELDs RESTON, VA – October 26, 2022 – Trucker Tools has enhanced the provision of real-time shipment tracking within its Smart Capacity platform by integrating with the Verizon Connect Reveal fleet management platform, which tracks…
