You’ve recently become a freight broker. Perhaps you’re new to the industry and are looking for ways to grow your business. Maybe you’ve been in the freight business for a while but haven’t had much success in marketing your services. Whatever the case may be, if you want to grow your freight broker business, there …
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Although it is slowly fading away, use of the CB radio and its special language is an important part of our trucking industry and its history. Check out this great guide from Smart Trucking of some popular trucker “old school” lingo translated. Try working it in your next conversation with your favorite career truck driver. …
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Tesla is getting into trucking. At least his first name is. The Nikola Motor Company, a Utah-based startup, has unveiled a compressed natural gas-electric hybrid semi aimed at disrupting the long-haul trucking industry the way the Tesla Model S did the car business. The company is run by Trevor Milton, a former executive at dHybrid …
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Large overhead. There is no reason to invest in big office space and lots of equipment for your freight brokerage. Sure, it is nice to have some extra space and conveniences but freight brokering is a really simple business that basically just requires a phone and a computer. When you add to your staff, think …
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Anyone who drives anything has experienced some form of frustration on the road at one time or another, but those of us in the commercial driving industry may experience more than most. We are always one moment away from our beautiful big rig becoming an ugly innocent victim killer. Sometimes all it takes is some …
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Five million miles is one heck of a lot of road. It is the equivalent of driving coast to coast 2,117 times, around the equator 200 times, and all the way to the moon and back over 10 times. Now that you have that frame of reference, imagine doing that much driving accident free – …
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Yes. And here is why. #1 – Improved Company Image. Nothing can improve your business image better than having an online presence in the form of a website. How do you feel about a company when you look it up on the internet and there is no website? Most likely, you feel like the company …
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If you are an owner-operator, fleet dispatcher or a freight broker / freight agent, then you already know how to get loaded. It isn’t that complicated, right? Subscribe to a load board or two, search for loads, call on the loads you want and then drive to the shipper for the freight. This usually works …
In some parts of the country, it feels like summer is already here. For the rest of the country, it is coming like a runaway train. Whether you are new to moving loads in the heat or you are an experienced trucker who has been through an entire generation of summer seasons, these tips can …
When using an affordable website creator or blog creator such as WordPress for your trucking company, you are often stuck with a website address such as mycompany.wordpress.com. While it is definitely a good thing to have your own personal site, no one is going to find it at that address by just searching the internet. …