Load boards are one of the most misunderstood tools in trucking. Too many carriers treat them like their main source of business instead of what they really are—a tactical tool to bridge the gap, not ...

When you’re a one-truck owner-operator or a small 3–5 truck fleet, your morning rhythm is clockwork: coffee, pre-trip, open the load board, refresh, refresh again, stare at the rates, call brokers, ...

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.

The Wall Street Journal ran an article on April 26 detailing the load board fraud crisis and the proliferation of double brokering. As the Journal reported, leading load board provider Truckstop found ...

More owner-operators are leaving their laptops at home and doing business on the road – including load-finding – exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. When 4B Transportation owner-operator ...

KeepTruckin has launched the Smart Load Board, a freight matching solution designed to help carriers find the right loads faster, the company announced. The Smart Load Board aggregates thousands of ...

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 ...

Smaller fleets that rely heavily on load boards earned $800 more per truck per month compared to those that that use the freight matching services less frequently, according to a new survey. According ...

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 — ...