May 16, 2012
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FleetOwner.com
Multiple factors have combined at this point in time to relieve the linehaul capacity crunch, according to TransCore DAT freight analyst Mark Montague. Writing on the company’s Freight Talk blog, he points out that while “recent freight patterns have shown peak demand in the second quarter of this year as opposed to the historical trend of a third-quarter peak. Yet here we are, well into the second quarter, and things are humming along nicely with plenty of available trucks.”
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Apr 26, 2012
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FleetOwner.com
By all measures queried in the just-released fifth annual Transcore DAT Broker Benchmark Survey, 2011 turned out to be a second positive year in a row for non-asset based brokers, broker-carriers and 3PLs alike.
Advertisement.“Last year was a good year for brokers-- as was 2010— in terms of loads, revenues and profits,” David Schrader, senior vice president of operations for DAT told FleetOwner. “And for carriers,” he noted, “2010 also was a good year and we expect similar results for 2011 in our upcoming carrier survey.”
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Apr 18, 2012
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Truckinginfo.com
Freight availability and rates on the spot market increased month-over-month and declined slightly year-over-year according to TransCore’s DAT® North American Freight index. The index was up 40 percent in March compared to February and was down 6.1 percent compared to March 2011 when the spot market achieved record freight volumes in an early spring peak.
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Apr 01, 2012
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FleetOwner.com
Information and communications companies, truck OEMs, equipment and service suppliers, and even the government have been using technologies onboard and off to help manage the business of trucking for years now. One result is a vast and still largely unexplored data landscape rich with valuable information there for the taking, if only it can be sifted out.
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Nov 21, 2011
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The Journal of Commerce
Despite mixed signals in other parts of the global shipping economy, David Schrader, senior vice president for operations at TransCore, says freight shipping demand remains strong in the U.S. truckload sector as inventory management trends push more business to spot markets.
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Nov 08, 2011
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Overdriveonline.com
All owner-operator subscribers to the TruckersEdge.net load-board service from TransCore can look forward to a new smartphone-optimized mobile site to launch officially late this year or early next, says TransCore product manager Scott McCollister.
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Sep 30, 2011
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mynewmarkets.com
Insurance agents and brokers frustrated with issuing certificates of insurance for transportation risks may have a friend in an Oregon company that specializes in monitoring insurance data on motor carriers for freight brokers. The company, TransCore Freight Solutions, wants to spread the word about how it can help the insurance industry through its CarrierWatch Insurance Monitoring Center. This service, which is free to insurance agents, promises to helps them reduce the time they spend sending out insurance certificates, which is supposed to happen every time a freight carrier puts freight on a motor carrier's truck.
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Sep 01, 2011
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FleetOwner
TransCore Freight Solutions operates DAT 3sixty, arguably the largest, most active load board in North America. “It's our responsibility to provide a safe marketplace, to assure people are who they say they are,” explains David Schrader, TransCore senior vice president. “If [a fraudulent party] were to get on our board, the fox would be in the henhouse.”
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May 24, 2011
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Bulk Transporter
TransCore’s North American Freight Index showed a 14% decline in spot market truckload freight volume for April 2011 compared with March, but a 12% increase versus April 2010. Freight volumes in the South and Midwest were negatively impacted by extreme weather conditions the regions experienced during April. The month-to-month decline was the first instance in 15 years where spot market freight volume dropped from March to April.
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Apr 04, 2011
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Following a three-month decline, truckload rates for refrigerated vans increased 2.2 percent on the spot market in March compared to February, according to TransCore’s Truckload Rate Index. Compared to March 2010, rates for the reefer segment increased 2.9 percent. Spot market rates are those paid by freight brokers and third-party logistics providers to the carrier.
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Mar 08, 2011
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Nationwide van rates for truck freight moved on the spot market remained stable, according to TransCore Trendlines’ monthly rollup. Flatbed rates increased by 1.9 percent nationwide and reefer rates moved up by 1.6 percent compared to January.
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Dec 17, 2010
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TheTrucker.com
Since August, TransCore’s spot market freight volume has exceeded same-month levels for every year since 2005, the peak year for truckload freight on the spot market. And November was no exception, up 72 percent from a year ago, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index.
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Nov 23, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal
TransCore on Tuesday, Nov. 23, announced it has enhanced the fraud protection features and incorporated new federal carrier safety guidelines into its CarrierWatch service, an online tool designed to help brokers and shippers validate the operating authority, insurance and safety records of the motor carriers they hire.
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Nov 23, 2010
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Refrigerated Transporter
TransCore’s North American Freight Index reported a 69% increase in spot market freight availability in October, compared with the previous year.
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Nov 16, 2010
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Truckinginfo.com
In October, TransCore's market research shows a 69 percent increase in spot market freight availability, compared to October 2009.
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Sep 09, 2010
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Supply Chain Brain
TransCore reports that August spot freight volume exceeded August 2009 levels by 81 percent and achieved the highest level for the month since 2005.
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Jul 28, 2010
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Supply Chain Brain
For the week of July 18-24, TransCore reported that load availability softened by 10 percent and truck postings increased by 3.8 percent compared to the previous week. Flatbed capacity, which earlier this year had been at a historic imbalance, continues to improve with a 9-percent increase week over week, while spot market rates for flatbeds dipped by $0.02 to $1.61 (line haul only) in this week's 30-day rolling average, nationwide.
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Jul 21, 2010
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Logistics Management
Even though various freight and economic-related indices have lost steam in recent weeks, one which continues to chug along is the TransCore North American Freight Index. TransCore reported in its index this week that spot market freight availability in June was up 112 percent year-over-year. And in the second quarter it was up 60 percent compared to the first quarter and up 331 percent compared to the second quarter in 2009.
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Jun 25, 2010
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Forbes.com
The International Customer Management Institute (ICMI) announced the 2010 Global Call Center of the Year Award winners... ...TransCore's Commercial Technology Group Freight Services was selected as the outstanding call center in the Small-Medium Call Center category (75 agents or less).
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Jun 21, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal Digital
Since 2007, TransCore has offered a Web services interface called Connexion for it's online 3sixty Freight Match service and DAT Network. The interface establishes a real-time communications link to 3sixty Freight Match by embedding XML code into the companies' native dsipatch and other software systems.
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May 14, 2010
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PRNewswire
In the Small/Medium Call Center category, TransCore Freight Services (Beaverton, Oregon), a leading transportation solutions provider serving brokers, carriers, owner-operators and shippers in the U.S. and Canada – and the recipient of the ICMI Global Call Center of the Year Award in 2007 - is a finalist for 2010.
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May 24, 2011
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Bulk Transporter
TransCore’s North American Freight Index showed a 14% decline in spot market truckload freight volume for April 2011 compared with March, but a 12% increase versus April 2010. Freight volumes in the South and Midwest were negatively impacted by extreme weather conditions the regions experienced during April. The month-to-month decline was the first instance in 15 years where spot market freight volume dropped from March to April.
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Apr 04, 2011
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Following a three-month decline, truckload rates for refrigerated vans increased 2.2 percent on the spot market in March compared to February, according to TransCore’s Truckload Rate Index. Compared to March 2010, rates for the reefer segment increased 2.9 percent. Spot market rates are those paid by freight brokers and third-party logistics providers to the carrier.
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Mar 08, 2011
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Nationwide van rates for truck freight moved on the spot market remained stable, according to TransCore Trendlines’ monthly rollup. Flatbed rates increased by 1.9 percent nationwide and reefer rates moved up by 1.6 percent compared to January.
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Apr 16, 2010
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Transport Topics Online
An official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told anxious freight brokers here the agency’s new safety ratings system would not significantly alter their business landscape.
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Mar 16, 2010
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Gerson Lehrman Group
Do brokers, 3PL’s and other non-asset providers sell value and relationships or moreso price? Therein lies the quandary that creates the opportunity for truckers' profits today and problems for 3PL’s / brokers.
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Dec 17, 2010
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TheTrucker.com
Since August, TransCore’s spot market freight volume has exceeded same-month levels for every year since 2005, the peak year for truckload freight on the spot market. And November was no exception, up 72 percent from a year ago, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index.
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Nov 23, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal
TransCore on Tuesday, Nov. 23, announced it has enhanced the fraud protection features and incorporated new federal carrier safety guidelines into its CarrierWatch service, an online tool designed to help brokers and shippers validate the operating authority, insurance and safety records of the motor carriers they hire.
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Nov 23, 2010
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Refrigerated Transporter
TransCore’s North American Freight Index reported a 69% increase in spot market freight availability in October, compared with the previous year.
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Mar 15, 2010
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TodaysTrucking.com
Freight availability in February more than tripled on the North American spot market from the year ago period, with a 215 percent boost.
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Mar 01, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Getting lost is a major source of stress and anxiety for truck drivers, and stress increases the chance they could be involved in an accident.
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Mar 01, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Judging by appearance alone, trailers operated by Brown Trucking are similar to most other dry vans parked at shipping and receiving facilities. But watch closely, and you'll see that the company's trailers don't sit still for long.
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Feb 01, 2010
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Commercial Carrier Journal
Electronic control modules (ECMs) broadcast a steady stream of files and information through a vehicle's controlled area network (CAN). Thousands of fleets are using their onboard computing and mobile communications platforms to manage some of this information...
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Dec 15, 2009
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Transport Topics
Spot market freight availability increased by 65% in November compared to last year according to the TransCore Freight Index, a measure of truckload freight volume found on load boards.
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