During the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Trucker Tools announced new features and functions for its mobile driver app and the launch of Smart Capacity for owner-operators and small fleets. Launched in 2013, the Trucker Tools Mobile Driver App has been downloaded by more than 500,000 truckers for planning and information resource tools. Trucker […]
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(Image: Shutterstock) Did you know that over 90% of your qualified carriers vanish into the dark after they deliver your load? Prasad Gollapalli, founder and CEO of Trucker Tools, described the importance of the search for smart capacity in a conversation with Adrian Gonzalez. “If you ask any broker, they have thousands of carriers that are qualified
About 15 months after tech giant Uber entered the trucking industry with its Uber Freight platform, the company this week took a pivotal step toward closing the gap toward a true automated freight-matching system: It opened the platform up to shippers, allowing them to post loads and match with carriers to haul those loads. To
When we launched Uber Freight last year, our goal was to revitalize an industry and help freight move seamlessly and effortlessly around the country. Our first step towards achieving this was empowering carriers and their drivers, the heart of the trucking industry, with technology to help them succeed. With the Uber Freight app, we introduced
Two truck drivers having a meeting using a tablet computer. (Getty Images) Throughout my logistics career, I have developed and implemented operational processes for building collaborative relationships with asset trucking companies, gathering data on their needs and developing freight matching technology to improve efficiency in the marketplace. Even in today’s technology advanced environment, matching freight
The Maersk McKinney Moller, the first of Maerk’s Triple-E class of mega-ships. But ocean shipping struggles with flat rates, over-capacity and higher fuel costs. Maersk saw its quarterly profit weaken year-on-year as freight rates remain stagnant and fuel prices rise. In response, the world’s largest container line plans to reduce capacity over the next 12
Digital Freight Matching and It’s Revolution in the Trucking Industry Stagnancy has some of the severe problems with the technology. They can’t get entirely being with each other; whenever the industry goes on being stagnant, technology starts initiating the changes which help the wholesome to work smoother and deliver the knockout blow to its arch
The rate pendulum has been in the corner of motor carriers in 2018 and will likely stay put through 2019. The DAT North American Freight Index, a monthly measure of demand for spot market freight, shows that rates peaked in June at 18 percent above the same time last year, and then dipped slightly in
Ryan Transportation Service, a large third-party logistics (3PL) provider, has selected Trucker Tools for its load matching, capacity management and shipment visibility software services. Overland Park, Kansas-based Ryan Transportation is a national 3PL firm with supply chain, freight brokerage and transportation management services for the food & beverage, chemical, building materials, construction, packaging and oil
Lanetix, a San Fransisco-based startup that was seeded by investment from Salesforce.com, announced a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) suite developed exclusively for asset-owning trucking firms and freight brokerages. The new suite, LxRoadFreight, was designed to enable transportation companies to compete against “big disrupters” in the industry like Uber Freight, said John Golob, president of