Here is your chance to help mold the way trucking companies work with brokerages.
We have 3 polls that we are seeking your knowledge and experience.
For trucking companies and responding to quotes from brokers.
What type of e-mails do you prefer to receive.
How would you prefer to see about loads.
Enough said
If you have already participated thank you. If you would please pass this on to somebody else that is a truck driver or to a trucking company. We are using this information to help guide us in our technical developments.
If you would like to receive the results of this poll, please e-mail me at dennis@aclogisticsbrokerageinc.co
Here is the link to the poll, in case you need it: http://poll.fm/5bib7
We have made some changes to our website.
AClB’s main website – Agency of Motor Freight Logistics
Came across this info-graphic concerning cargo theft.
How would new legislation affect Freight Brokers and Forwarders?
The idea for creating a national carrier hiring standard has been in the air for some time. Now it’s back on the table after the H.R. 1120 was introduced in the House of Representatives last February. In its entirety, the bill repeats the legislative language of a similar proposal, presented to the 113th Congress last year.
This bill aims at bypassing the Compliance Safety Accountability (CSA) program used by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) since 2010 for rating each motor carrier through the behaviour, analysis, and safety improvement categories known as CSA BASICs.
The CSA scores are deemed inadequate and confusing by the trucking industry when it comes to hiring a motor carrier. Also, experts say that creating a national hiring standard will bring the “negligent selection lawsuits” based on CSA data to a minimum.
Freight brokers, freight broker agents, freight forwarders AND shippers could be affected.
Some of the destinations in mind are:
Chagrin Falls,OH Elgin,IL Fresno,CA New Berlin,WI Panama City,FL
There are some qualifications for this now.
1) you must be a motor carrier
2) you must have a flatdeck or stepdeck
3) you must have at least a smoke tarp
4) you must be in or near the North Western corner of Arkansas
Jim Beach with HDT is reporting
The economy is in a “particularly volatile state,” with some saying it is going up while others think it is going down, according to Noel Perry, founder of Transport Economics.
Speaking at the ALK Transportation Technology Summit held in Princeton, N.J., this week, Perry said he agrees with both sentiments. The recovery period from the most recent recession is taking longer than what has historically been the case, Perry added, noting that since the 1990s, we have been in a long cycle economy and that we could still be in recovery for three or four years.
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