Category: Freight Shipping Rate
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Congress approved the Highway Bill, and President Obama is set to sign it on Friday, July 6, 2012. The report contains the TIA-OOIDA-ATA compromise language almost exactly. How will this affect you? Read the great blog post and summary from DAT.com. Leave a comment below and let us know what you think! Related reading: Oil…
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Transportation is the process of moving people, freight, and raw materials from one location to another, and it quietly shapes almost every purchase, harvest, and delivery in the modern economy. Whether it happens by rail, truck, ship, or air, transportation determines how quickly goods reach shelves and how much that convenience costs. In particular, the…
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a final rule that will eliminate Cargo Insurance requirements for freight forwarders and most motor carriers. Only household goods carriers will be required by law to maintain Cargo Insurance. All other motor carriers and freight forwarders will no longer be required to maintain Cargo Insurance as…
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What happens when a Shipper gives one load to multiple freight brokers in order to find a truck? Market Distortion, and it’s Expensive for Shippers. An interesting Market Distortion occurs when Shippers call multiple Brokers to move their load(s). When a Broker receives a call from the Shipper to move a load on a particular…
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Capacity is rapidly tightening up on ocean containers from China. How will this affect the U.S. domestic market in 2010? How will these containers be utilized in the supply chain? Fast-paced change buoyed by surge in demand, shortage of containers. Ocean container spot freight rates on the key export trades out of China to Europe…
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A shipper rate quote is the fastest way to find out what your freight will actually cost before you ever book a truck, and Freight-Tec built its free quote tool to deliver exactly that. Whether you ship one pallet a month or a dozen truckloads a week, our shipper rate quote engine pulls live, carrier-backed…
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Excellent article taken from Transport Topics, Aug. 11, 2009. Opinion: The Customer Service, Dispatch Dilemma – By Greg Shelton, Dispatch Consultant As the recession deepens, there is growing awareness in the transportation industry of the role dispatchers play in keeping third-party logistics firms and freight brokerages competitive, particularly in the areas where dispatch and customer…
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If you didn’t catch it yet, be sure to check out Freight Tec on the cover of Internet Truckstop Magazine for the Sept/Oct 2009 Issue. Visit Truckstop.com for more information or go right to the full magazine by clicking Here. Be sure to check it out and let us know what you think by commenting…