Happy Wednesday, y’all, and welcome to your mid-week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for carriers and drivers. In this and every edition of “Where’s the Freight?” you’ll discover where demand and rates for flatbed, reefer, power only and dry van truckload capacity will be highest and lowest over the next five to seven day…
If you’re a regular reader of the Trucker Tools blog, you know that we love talking to folks from across the trucking industry, from company drivers and owner ops to dispatchers and fleet owners. We recently had the good fortune to speak with John DeCillo, a flatbed lease operator running out of Jacksonville, Fla. John’s path into trucking hasn’t been…
Happy Friday, y’all, and welcome to your end of week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for carriers and owner operators. The freight market predictions that you see in this and every edition of “Where’s the Freight?” are based on real-world transactions from our driver, carrier and broker software platforms. Armed with this information in…
This May 9-10, Trucker Tools will be joining technology vendors, logistics providers, freight brokers and thought leaders at FreightWaves’ The Future of Supply Chain for two days of insightful discussions, exhibits, technology demonstrations and training. Keynote speakers at this year’s event will include Arkansas’ governor Asa Hutchinson, the Oakland As’ Billy Beane, and J.B. Hunt’s Chief Commercial Officer and Executive…
Welcome to your mid-week edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast fleets and drivers. All signs are pointing to a broad decline in demand for truckload capacity, according to data from FreightWaves and a report from Bank of America released last week. At this time last year, truckers and carriers were rejecting more than one quarter (25.76…
Happy Monday and welcome to the latest edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight market report for carriers and drivers. As we look ahead to this final week of April, you can expect demand for reefer and flatbed capacity to remain high in several border and manufacturing/distribution markets, which is no surprise given the time of year. Once…
Welcome to your Friday edition of Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free freight forecast for drivers and carriers. In this and every edition of “Where’s the Freight?,” you’ll discover where demand and rates are likely to be high, low, increasing and decreasing over the next five to seven day period. In the coming week, the Tucson, Ariz., reefer market is…
Happy Wednesday, y’all, and welcome to the midweek edition of Where’s the Freight?,” Trucker Tools’ free market report for fleets and owner operators. As always, this edition of “Where’s the Freight?” uses the latest data from Trucker Tools’ driver, carrier and broker software platforms to predict where demand for specific types of capacity will be high and low in the…
In this ongoing blog series, we’re introducing you to Trucker Tools’ most valuable resource: our employees! These are the folks working hard behind the scenes to answer your questions, design new technology features and help you make your business more efficient. In this blog, you’ll get to know Tyler Cassidy, Trucker Tools’ Senior Software Engineer who spends the bulk of…
The benefits of integrating software platforms together are numerous for your freight brokerage or 3PL business. Integrated software platforms can increase employee productivity, reduce errors, provide insights about your business, cut costs, help you better understand your customers, and provide flexibility and scalability. That’s why Trucker Tools partners with leading technology providers across the transportation industry, including transportation management system…