Category: Freight Trucking Company
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We believe Agents should be able to work in a positive environment! 🤝🏢 #bestagentprogram #freightbroker #freighttec #agentprogram #freightbrokerage
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The owner of Freight Tec, Steve Van Otten was on a podcast with Trey Griggs a week ago! 🙌 It was a light, fun interview that includes some sports talk. 🎧 Here's a one minute clip below. #freightbroker #bestagentprogram #freightbroker #freighttec #freightbrokerage 🎥 Link to full video: https://tinyurl.com/3zskrn7m
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The Red Barn Academy that has a two-year program that reinvents lives broken from addiction and crime by teaching honesty, accountability, and integrity in a farm setting. 🚜 Once a year they put on a car show and hold a graduation for students who have completed their program. 👏 We have become friends with some…
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Bad debts are one of the most dangerous threats facing any freight brokerage, and they can turn a profitable quarter into a financial disaster almost overnight. Imagine one of your largest customers suddenly going belly up while owing you and your broker $50,000 in unpaid freight bills. You soon learn there is no realistic hope…
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This is a True Story. A carrier calls our office to book a load we had shared with our network. We start our Carrier Qualification Process and find out that the Carrier wants to use an owner-operator. We advised the Carrier that we needed to see their federal operating authority, Certificate of Insurance, W-9, and…
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A self driving truck used to sound like something out of a science-fiction movie. Today, it is one of the most closely watched technologies in the entire freight industry, and for good reason. However, before you decide whether a self driving truck will ever replace the person behind the wheel, you need to understand exactly…
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A freight card gives owner-operators and carriers instant access to fuel discounts, maintenance funding, and working capital without waiting on slow-paying brokers. Freight-Tec’s freight card program pairs a physical fuel card with a revolving credit line built specifically for trucking businesses, so you never have to choose between keeping your truck rolling and keeping your…
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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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Well, it’s official. Effective January 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and others implemented a rule banning the use of cell phones while driving for all commercial truck drivers. Violations can be severe – up to $2,750 fine for each offense and possible commercial license suspension for multiple…
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The FBI estimates the loss value of Cargo Theft at roughly $30 Billion dollars a year. Don’t think that effects you as an every-day consumer? Think again. That $30 Billion loss causes retail business everywhere to mark-up their products an additional 20% for consumers! … And that’s on items you buy everyday! Electronics, food and clothing were the top three commodities stolen in 2010. …