In a recent webinar with Trucker Tools, Trekker Logistics’ Director of Logistics Dominic Swanfeld outlined why the company chose Trucker Tools for real-time visibility and the results realized since the roll-out. Before implementing Trucker Tools’ visibility solution, the brokerage struggled to achieve tracking compliance rates above 70 percent. In the two months since Trekker implemented Trucker Tools’ tracking platform, Trekker has been…
With more than 90,000 freight forwarding brokerages and agencies in operation in the United States, freight brokerage is more competitive than ever — and that isn’t expected to change any time soon. The global freight brokerage market is expected to hit $90.7 billion by the year 2031 and the U.S. freight brokerage market alone is projected to hit nearly $14 billion by…
No matter if markets are up or down, real-time technology provides resiliency and scalability to logistics businesses like yours. Digitizing capacity sourcing and load tracking and booking does more than just reduce your operating costs. Going digital provides you with a level of scalability that can’t be achieved without technology. When you increase productivity among your employees, it takes them less time to…
Over the last few years, real-time freight visibility has gone from being a nice to have service offering to an essential service for brokers to provide to shippers. Most shippers prefer to receive real-time load tracking data digitally rather than manual check call updates from the driver or carrier dispatcher. To keep your current customers happy and win new business, it’s…
In this ongoing Employee Spotlight blog series, we’re introducing you to the talented folks working behind the scenes here at Trucker Tools. In each Employee Spotlight, you’ll learn about what each employee does here at Trucker Tools and a little bit about who they are outside of work. This newest spotlight blog is all about Michael Tho who works as a full…
In 2013, we added real-time load tracking to the Trucker Tools driver app and launched our broker-facing real-time visibility software platform. Over the ensuing decade, our Software-as-a-Service platform has matured and today hundreds of leading freight brokerages and logistics providers use Trucker Tool’s tracking technology as an essential part of their operations. Of course, the evolving needs of shippers and the consumer market…
In this ongoing educational blog series, we’re providing you with time-savings tips that help you work more productively as a freight broker/carrier rep in a logistics business. This newest blog in our Broker Tip series is dedicated to Book It Now®, Trucker Tools’ automation tool that lets carriers and owner operators book your loads via the Trucker Tools driver app or our free platform for…
Welcome to the newest and final edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free market forecast for owner operators and carriers. This trucking market forecast tells you where demand (and rates) for specific types of freight will be high, low, increasing and decreasing in the coming week. With these insights, you can maximize your profits by prioritizing loads into markets where demand…
If you’re freight broker or carrier rep working in in a logistics company, you likely spend a lot of time searching for, negotiating and securing truckload capacity one load at a time. It goes without saying that a sizable and reliable carrier/driver network makes your job easier. When you have a robust capacity network, it’s easier to cover your customers’ loads,…
Welcome to the newest edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free trucking forecast for fleets and owner operators. This free trucking forecast provides insights into where demand and rates for certain kinds of freight will be highest and lowest in the coming week. Over the next five to seven day period, you can expect high demand for reefer and flatbed capacity…
