Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

Truckstop.com has launched the freight industry’s first load board exclusively for dry vans, aiming to provide an affordable ...

Digital freight broker Uber Freight recently announced it would open up a new platform it calls Broker Access, allowing fellow brokers to post loads and have its freight-matching technology work its ...

Hours-of-service compliance was the original intent of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule but shipment visibility could be the most valuable outcome, at least for shippers and freight brokers.

As spot rates remain mostly flat, Truckstop.com has introduced a new dry van-only load board at a lower monthly cost to owner ...

Quick Transport Solutions Inc. has a new load board service, enabling users to post loads or find trucks, post trucks or find loads, as well as look up carrier profiles. The load board offers ...

Truckload freight volumes tumbled in July from their highs in June—and the spot market continues its summer slump, DAT Freight & Analytics reported this week. “Demand for van and reefer services ...

Load boards have changed a lot from their humble beginnings about 40 years ago. Long gone are written notes tacked up on truck stop bulletin boards to help drivers find freight, or using telephones at ...

If your entire week is shaped by whatever pops up on the load board that morning, you’re not running a plan—you’re reacting. That approach is what keeps carriers in the cycle of inconsistent weeks, ...

Upstarts Uber Freight and Convoy continued to gain market share among freight-matching rivals, as more traditional load boards saw their market share ebb in the face of more heavily digitized ...

This article appears in the Aug./Sept. 2011 issue of iTECH, published in the June 13 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Truckers and freight brokers who use ...