Brokers with questions about the new Comprehensive Safety Analysis have a new information resource. TransCore announced publication on April 1 of “CSA 2010: A Broker’s Eye View,” offering a detailed analysis of the safety program that will be introduced nationwide in July by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA.) CSA 2010, which ...

Starting in July, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s  (FMCSA) new Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010 will go into effect. By improving the FMCSA’s  carrier compliance and enforcement programs,  CSA 2010 aims to reduce injury accidents involving large trucks.   It also heralds a new level of complexity ...

Landstar System, Inc., one of the nation’s largest transportation and logistics services and ranked first in Fortune magazine’s 2009 list of “America’s Most Admired Companies” in the trucking category, has completed integration of TransCore’s CarrierWatch® monitoring service into their companywide transportation management software (TMS) ...

“Our top 10 brokers experienced an 8 percent increase in the number of loads they covered with Connexion, compared to the same period last year,” said Keith Burns, president of Online Freight Services. Connexion, a direct interface between Online’s operations software and their 3sixty™ Freight Match loadboard, helped the Mendota Heights, Minn. ...

Mark Yunker, vice-president of RJ Ahmann, is an expert in the area of contingent cargo insurance for the transportation industry, with 20 years of experience.  Yunker is a member of the TIA Directors Circle.  His comments are excerpted from a recorded session when Yunker answered insurance questions posed by a group of TransCore ...

Ronald H. Usem is a transportation attorney and partner at Minneapolis-based law firm of Huffman, Usem, Saboe, Crawford & Greenberg. Mr. Usem also serves on the Director’s Circle of the Board of Directors of the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA), the professional organization of the third-party logistics industry.   Mr. ...

Protect your company against risk by automating verification of carrier authority, safety and insurance coverage. It's easy - and it's free! - with the CarrierWatch service that is included in 3sixtyTM Freight Match and DATconnect.com. Create a carrier watch list, and TransCore will monitor your selected carriers. Your list will be updated ...

DO: Exercise due diligence in hiring carriers. Check the insurance, operating authority and safety rating. Get a copy of the carrier's insurance certificate, and check to be sure that the name on the policy matches the company name on the operating authority. Sign a broker-carrier agreement that specifies that the carrier will comply with ...

“We did not have a single uninsured loss,” said Tim Taylor. Taylor, founder and President of Eagan, Minnesota-based freight brokerage Network FOB, was reviewing his perfect record for the 18 months since Network FOB began monitoring carriers with TransCore’s CarrierWatch®. Taylor relies on CarrierWatch, along with other TransCore products and ...

Brokers who don’t exercise “due diligence” by thoroughly investigating carriers before hiring them could be at legal risk. Tools like our CarrierWatch monitoring system do that work for you, without adding extra administrative staff. In our opinion—shared by many others—carrier monitoring is critical to the long-term success of the broker ...