FREIGHT
FACTS



Freight postings on the DAT®
Network have been increasing steadily for all equipment types
since April, despite a decline in overall freight tonnage reported
by the American Trucking Associations (ATA). That means that load
availability is improving faster on the spot market than in the
overall, for-hire sector of commercial trucking. More >



BROKER
SPOTLIGHT



"Our top 10 brokers experienced an 8 percent increase in the number
of loads they covered with Connexion,
compared to the same period last year," said Keith Burns, president
of Online Freight Services. More >



TRANSCORE
PRODUCT NEWS



TransCore recently released 3sixty™
Freight Match Power 2.0, a new version of its flagship loadboard
service that's designed for carriers and freight brokers who move
high volumes of freight. 3sixty Power enables you to post up to
500 trucks or loads at once to the DAT® Network, from spreadsheets
or directly from your dispatch system or transportation management
software (TMS). Posting multiple trucks or loads reduces
data entry time and accelerates time-to-market for postings. More >

INDUSTRY
TRENDS



Two California residents, both Russian citizens, were sentenced
in June on charges related to a double-brokering scheme that yielded
$2.9 million over three years. Beginning in 2005, Nicholas Lakes
and Viacheslav Berkovich of Los Angeles hacked into the FMCSA SAFER
database and substituted their own contact information for the records
of real trucking companies. Posing as carriers, they found loads
on internet load boards. Then they posed as brokers and subcontracted
the loads to legitimate carriers. More >

Great
American Truck Show (GATS), August 20-22, Dallas TX

33%
Increase in Spot Freight Availability Means Good News for Truckers

TransCore's
New 3sixty™
Freight Match Power 2.0 Supports Automatic
Upload of up to 500 Postings

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