Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Jim Allen, Freightwaves. From public boards to private portals and niche freight co-ops, each load board serves a different ...

Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

While a necessary part of business for many, load boards and brokers have challenges. Two industry executives offer advice on how to avoid them. While load boards are a necessary part of the trucking ...

KeepTruckin recently launched the Smart Load Board, a freight matching solution designed to help carriers find the right loads faster. According to the company, the Smart Load Board aggregates ...

Hours-of-service compliance was the original intent of the electronic logging device (ELD) rule but shipment visibility could be the most valuable outcome, at least for shippers and freight brokers.

Pricing accuracy has become increasingly important as carriers navigate tighter margins, higher operating costs, and continued volatility in freight markets, according to Truckstop.com. Truckstop.com ...

Upstarts Uber Freight and Convoy continued to gain market share among freight-matching rivals, as more traditional load boards saw their market share ebb in the face of more heavily digitized ...

Load boards have changed a lot from their humble beginnings about 40 years ago. Long gone are written notes tacked up on truck stop bulletin boards to help drivers find freight, or using telephones at ...

Load board stalwarts DAT and Truckstop.com have both in the last year updated mobile access points to their freight universes. At its Connected 2016 user conference in November, Truckstop.com unveiled ...

Monika Joshi explains how Amazon Relay’s web portal and mobile app’s fraud protections, safety rewards program, and Prime Day ...

“I think it starts with the customer and really understanding their problems,” said Nadya Duke Boone, vice president of product at DAT Freight & Analytics. “When they’re looking at that load they ...

“I’m not some college kid coming into a big cubicle farm office. I came in from a driver’s seat.” –Brian Hardman, Fulmer Logistics I had a chance to catch up with the go-to broker from my owner-op ...