First, the bad news:  In the first quarter of 2008, 935 trucking companies closed their doors, according to Donald Broughton, a transportation industry analyst with Avondale Partners.  In total, an estimated 42,000 trucks - 2.1% of the nation's capacity - were idled in the first three months of 2008, Broughton said. Economic growth has ...

Need a load for your flat? You’ll find it faster on the 3sixty™ Freight Match or DATconnect.com® load boards. Powered by the legendary DAT® Network, these TransCore freight matching services enable carriers and brokers to post and search by equipment type and lane. You can set alarms in DATconnect.com or 3sixty Freight Match, so the system will ...

Need a flat? You'll find it faster on a TransCore load board. Powered by the legendary DAT® Network, TransCore's freight matching services offer the industry's most varied selection of trucks, by equipment type and carrier fleet size. As part of the company's routine diagnostic testing, TransCore runs frequent truck searches in five U.S. states. ...

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. Looking at volumes a year ago, March ’07 volumes were 32% below March ’08. In connection ...

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, anywhere in the world, for FREE.   1click2call is a fast, easy way to boost your business’ ...

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, anywhere in the world, for FREE.   1click2call is a fast, easy way to boost your business’ ...

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, anywhere in the world, for FREE.   1click2call is a fast, easy way to boost your business’ ...

We've been asking the carrier industry what we can do to make our load boards better. You've been telling us...and we've listened. This week we've released a new version of 3sixty Freight match that answers a critical carrier request: Make it easier to find the right load. Better search results 3sixty Freight Match has always had a great ...

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 ...

Behind the scenes at TransCore, it’s been a busy month: We just released version 1.2 of our flagship load board, 3sixty Freight Match. It’s been the work of several months to gather feature requests from our users and translate them into a better product. (So yes, we do listen—and respond—to user requests)   If you’re a Freight Match user, ...