Category: Freight Trucking Company
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We love staying up-to-date and reading the Journal of Commerce – Trucking. Last week an excellent post really got us thinking. EOBRs can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce violation fines. You can read the full article here: FMCSA Orders Trucker to Install 700 EOBRs Basically, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) ordered JBS Carriers Inc., of Greeley, Colorado, to install Electronic…
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Jobs with High Stress can easily help create Acid Reflux Disease. Clearly, Brokers are in a high stress career and are just as prone to Acid Reflux issues as anybody. If you don’t have Acid Reflux problems yet, chances are that you will sometime in the future. What is Acid Reflux Disease? This is the…
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Transportation systems are very dynamic. During the last few years the railroads have become more competitive with rapid service from Chicago to Los Angeles in order to out-compete trucking companies. With this kind of service available, the large trucking companies have put more and more of their freight on the railroads double-stack container trains. Truckers…
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The National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) – http://www.nastc.com – recently named Freight Tec in their “Best Broker Directory” for 2010-2011. NASTC screens every one of these brokers by carrier payment policy, history, and recommendations they receive from other NASTC members. “We feel this group of brokers represents the top of the brokerage community…
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Excellent article we wanted to share from Truck’n HotNews, by Utah Trucking Association, June 21 – June 27, 2010 LAWS TO PROTECT CARRIERS FROM BAD BROKERS Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have introduced the “Motor Carrier Protection Act of 2010” (S 3483), in response to concerns about unscrupulous brokering practices that continually…
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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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In January of this year, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed a new rule that would set limits on who can trade futures in the oil market. The CFTC has rightly determined that the sudden increase of oil contract futures in Mid-2008 was caused by speculators who did not have a “legitimate commercial interest” in…
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Each of us are reminded daily that Customers Talk. If you do a great job, or a poor job, your customers will tell you – but probably won’t tell you to your face. They’ll tell you, by telling others. Here is an excellent quote from Jeffrey Gitomer: Customers talk…to their associates, friends, and neighbors. Here…
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A recent article on Transportation Topics Online posted DOT Sets Texting Ban on Commercial Truck and Bus Drivers. Distracted driving is a problem for all of us – even if we aren’t the distracted ones on the road. More and more articles in the news are showing up where distracted driving was the cause of…