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  • NEW 3sixty Freight Match: Better truck searches and built-in carrier monitoring

    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 ...
    Posted to BrokerBlog (Weblog) by Editor on December 17, 2007
  • FMCSA releases Interim Final Rule on hours of service: 11 hours still OK

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or hanging out on a sunny beach someplace—lucky you), you probably heard that the FMCSA decided to retain the maximum 11-hour driving limit and restart provision for carrier fleets (along with most of the other provisions), at least for the time being. They cited studies showing that driving for 11 hours is ...
    Posted to Carrier Blog (Weblog) by Editor on December 15, 2007
  • FMCSA releases Interim Final Rule on Hours of Service…11 hours still OK

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or hanging out on a sunny beach someplace—lucky you), you probably heard that the FMCSA decided to retain the maximum 11-hour driving limit and restart provisions for carrier fleets (along with most of the other provisions), at least for the time being. They cited studies showing that driving for 11 hours ...
    Posted to BrokerBlog (Weblog) by Editor on December 14, 2007
  • Brokers: Can (should) you enforce carrier safety?

    In a recent survey of trucking companies monitored by CarrierWatch, TransCore’s powerful carrier monitoring system, we found the following: ·         74 percent have never received a safety rating ·         20 percent of awarded safety ratings are more than ten ...
    Posted to BrokerBlog (Weblog) by Editor on October 16, 2007