Happy Friday, y’all, and welcome to your TGIF edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for fleets and owner operators. As we head into the July 4th weekend, it should come as no surprise that several reefer markets are in our Top Five Hottest Markets list today, as folks around the nation gear up to celebrate our…
In this ongoing Employee Spotlight blog series, we’re helping you get to know members of the Trucker Tools team. In this newest spotlight, you’ll be learning more about Kyler Ford. Kyler first joined the Trucker Tools team just about a year ago as Vice President of Sales and recently moved into a new role as Trucker Tools’ Chief Revenue Officer.…
Happy Wednesday and welcome to the mid-week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for truckers and carriers. The insights that you see in this and every edition of “Where’s the Freight?” are based on real-world transactions between freight brokers, carriers and drivers using Trucker Tools’ technology. In today’s freight forecast, you’ll notice that demand for…
As a tech provider, we know that your options are plentiful when it comes to choosing which software platforms to use in your logistics business. It’s important, however, to understand what different technologies can offer you. In this blog, you’ll learn how Trucker Tools’ Smart Capacity platform is different from load board technology and some of the email-based capacity tools…
Welcome to the newest edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for fleets and drivers. In this and every edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” you’ll learn where demand for flatbed, reefer, power only and dry van capacity will be highest and lowest across the United States and Canada in the next week. This week, you can expect…
Over the last five years, digital freight matching technology’s prominence has skyrocketed, driven in part by the pandemic and its effect on freight markets around the globe. Digital freight matching’s value proposition for brokers and 3PLs of all sizes is clear. This technology can offer increased operational efficiency, greater profits, higher productivity, simplified workflows and the potential to raise your…
In this blog, you’ll get the skinny on another key member of the Trucker Tools team, Jessamyn Quint. Jess has been with Trucker Tools since 2019 when she joined the team fresh out of college as a software engineer just after graduating from Connecticut College. Since then, Jess has been promoted to mobile app lead engineer and just recently to…
Happy Friday, trucking fam, and welcome to the TGIF edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for trucking companies and owner operators. Over the next five to seven day period, you can expect demand for flatbed capacity to diminish in several key markets, including Fargo, N.D., and Washington D.C. In the coming week, reefer demand will…
As a freight broker or 3PL, the success of your business hinges on your ability to source capacity for your customers. Over the last several years, economic volatility, the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a sharp increase in the number of small carriers and owner operators in the market have made sourcing capacity more challenging than ever. Thankfully,…
When time is lost in the supply chain, it impacts your shippers’ revenue. If you can’t easily find a truck to move a shipper’s load, that means the freight is sitting in a warehouse or on a dock longer than it should be, impacting the shipper’s operations and inflating the costs associated with moving the load. One of the best…