Freight availability in January rose by 54% on the North American spot market, compared to January 2009, according to the TransCore Freight Index. Freight volume has been improving since October, on a year-over-year basis, due both to the improving trend in the second half of 2009 as well as the market weakness that extended from Q4 2008 through ...

Customizable screens and dashboards are among the new features in all of TransCore’s Tracking & Communications products. The application’s interface – the part that dispatchers see --- has been re-designed to make it more intuitive. The newly redesigned software features maps of your entire fleet, with detailed, real-time information on each ...

Brad Aitken, director of business development for TransCore’s Tracking and Communications (GlobalWave) business unit, has been elected to the Board of Governors for the National Private Truck Council (NPTC) Institute. The NPTC represents private truck fleets and provides training and certification programs to advance the professional skill and ...

This article is adapted, with the author’s permission, from an investment brief titled “Running on Fumes: Number of Trucking Failures Drops Dramatically.” The brief was published by Avondale Partners for information purposes on January 9, 2009. Truck company failures removed 7% of the nation’s truckload capacity in 2008, but demand declined in ...

The transportation industry was shaken in mid-September by the credit freeze and accompanying financial uncertainty, but it adjusted quickly to the new environment. A glance at TransCore’s customer credit records for the months of August, September and October revealed a distinct pattern. Credit scores declined, and days-to-pay spiked. (See ...

For the first few years of operation, each of the two dispatchers at Joe Tex Xpress called 25 drivers every morning to locate the fleet’s 50 trucks. Even when every driver answered his cell phone immediately, the check calls would take more than an hour for each dispatcher. “A driver might be on the road or in a situation where he couldn’t ...

We’ve all heard plenty of bad news lately. Declining freight volumes. Trucking company failures. Layoffs. Well, here’s a surprise: Some carriers are doing just fine. In fact, they’re optimistic about the future. These are not just giant carriers, either. Small and mid-size truck lines are also profitable, even in this tough economy. If you’re ...

Just as company trucks approached the mountainous pick-up point for their dedicated haul, High Country Transportation’s drivers typically lost their cell phone service. With no way to reach his drivers at the freight loading area or along parts of the route, Shawn Crowley, High Country’s operations manager, started looking for a satellite-based ...

Join the ''Help our Troops Call Home'' program and keep military connected with families. PORTLAND, Ore., - TransCore announced that its Fleet Trailer Tracking Division has made a donation to the American Red Cross®. The funds will be used to provide American troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait with more than 30,000 minutes of ...

When it comes to satellite truck and trailer tracking, Dave Sward, Vice-President and General Manager of TransCore’s 3sixty Fleet Management service, speaks with facts. Here are a few takeaways from the first two segments of this four-part interview recorded in June 2007.   TransCore’s satellite asset-tracking technology goes back ...