April 2008 - Posts

• TransCore's 2008 Broker Benchmark Survey Available for Download

  During February and March 2008, we invited more than 5,000 brokerage companies to answer 26 questions about their business. We asked about how they ran their businesses, including company size, staffing practices, types of loads, business operations, Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 6:39 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments Filed under: broker survey facts stats

• 25,000 or more accurate truckload lane rates in 10 minutes or less!

  TransCore Introduces Rate Index Pro for Bulk Rate Pricing and Real-time Negotiations Based on 12 Million Actual Freight Bills I n April, TransCore introduced Rate Index™ Pro, a web-based product enabling anyone involved in truckload lane rate pricing Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:44 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments Filed under: broker facts stats

• Freight Facts: Spot market shows uptick

  Load Trends (March) According to TransCore’s Market Research, availability of exception freight in March continued to improve both on a month to month and year over year basis. March exception freight volumes improved by 40% when compared to February. Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 5:54 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments

• Shippers' Interest protects your business when carriers' coverage fails

  It’s a common story. You think your insurance will cover your needs until an unforeseen situation shows the gaps in your coverage. This certainly applies to motor carrier’s insurance, which can contain limitations, perils, commodities exclusions, radius Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 5:43 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments Filed under: broker tools freight facts

• Broker Benchmark Survey Results

  During February and March 2008, we invited more than 5,000 brokerage companies to answer 26 questions about their business. We asked how they ran their businesses, including company size, staffing practices, types of loads, business operations, revenue Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 5:32 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments Filed under: broker tools survey Attachment(s): Broker-Benchmark-Survey.pdf

• Hot Fuel Burns a Hole in Drivers' Pockets

  "Hot Fuel" burns a hole in drivers’ pockets The phrase “hot fuel” refers to diesel fuel or gasoline sold at retail pumps at temperatures higher than the century-old government standard of 60 degrees. That is the temperature used in the petro-chemical Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 5:28 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments

• Generating Gold with the Golden Rule: Lisa Fouts and Cargo Transit

  Background In April 1999, Lisa Fouts embarked on the formation of a new and solely owned company, Cargo Transit, Inc., a certified woman-owned business headquartered in Weaverville, North Carolina. Lisa’s goal was to build a company based on detailed Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 5:25 PM by kenharper | 0 Comments Filed under: FreightMatch

• 4 reasons why you should try 1click2call in 3sixty Freight Match

  1click2call is a great new feature of our 3sixty Freight Match load board that lets you place calls to prospects and customers directly from the load board. 1click2call uses Skype, a free PC-to-PC phone service that lets you call any other Skype user, Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 4:08 PM by csadmin | 0 Comments Filed under: 1click2call, load board, 3sixty Freight Match