BulkLoads.com announces integration with MyCarrierPackets.com

BulkLoads.com adds integration for insurance monitoring

BulkLoads.com announced this week that it has integrated the services of MyCarrierPackets.com into its BulkTMS solution.

MyCarrierPackets.com is a carrier onboarding service provider. The service allows shippers to provide an online carrier packet to its carrier partners. “Each invited carrier is directed to a customized online packet webpage, where they enter/verify their profile information, agree to any contracts, and complete an electronic W9/W8. All parties, including the corporate office...

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GSCW chat recap: The future of bulk commodities market post-COVID

GSCW Day 5: Bulk commodities

This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 5 focuses on energy, mining and chemicals. 

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: What the bulk loads market is telling us about the economy

DETAILS: Zach Strickland, a FreightWaves market analyst, discusses the future of the bulk market post-COVID-19 pandemic and what to look for in 2021 with Jared Flinn of Bulkloads.com.

SPEAKER: Flinn is the operating partner of Bulkloads.com.

BIO: Flinn co-founded and developed a trucking...

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From earnings to exports — Midday Market Update

MMU 11/24

Are grain markets seeing a squeeze?

Andrew Cox reports the differences being revealed between air cargo and airline passenger business recovery. Cox says cargo saw less of an impact from the pandemic so the recovery has been sharper than for passenger flights. 

Echo Global Logistics has reported great growth in earnings, showing increases in volume, total revenue and truckload revenue. 

LTL provider Old Dominion also posted great fourth-quarter earnings, posting a 76.3% operating ratio in Q4 and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/from-earnings-to-exports-midday-market-update

TuSimple sets sights on autonomous truck goal — Midday Market Update (with video)

MMU 11/24

Michael Vincent and Andrew Cox discuss what a deal with TRATON Group means for self-driving truck technology

Andrew cox fills in for Kevin Hill to talk autonomous vehicles and todays latest headlines

Headlines

KLLM announced a pay raise for drivers, bumping the earning potential by over 9%. KLLM follows Werner, Heartland and others hiking wages and sign-on bonuses for drivers to try and keep up with growing demand and a continued driver shortage. 

Data from Wall Street shows shipping stocks...

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The Daily Dash: Earnings insight; Hyliion declines revenue for its early products

Schneider truck on highway

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, Todd Fowler, lead transportation analyst at KeyBanc, talks third-quarter earnings. Plus, Hyliion is not recording any revenue from its propulsion system and Wall Street is OK with that, and carriers continue to dominate as retail peak hits.

Inside the numbers

Third-quarter earnings are in, and the trucking sector performed quite well. Todd Fowler, lead transportation analyst at KeyBanc, shares some...

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Bulkloads.com adds invoicing functionality to app

bulkoads adds invoicing to bulk loads app

Bulkloads.com is continuing to add features to its bulk freight app as it further builds out its product offering. The company is now making invoicing a key feature of the Bulkloads app to simplify the process of invoicing shippers, brokers and factoring companies right from the app.

Bulkloads.com started as a load board for bulk haulers in the agricultural markets before expanding into other bulk commodities, including bulk liquids. The app followed and the company has been steadily adding...

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Today’s Pickup: Bulkloads rolls out early features of planned TMS

Bulkloads TMS

Good day,

The first part of a new transportation management system (TMS) from Bulkloads is now available. The new offering, Doc Scanning, includes a document library for carriers to send documents to shippers and brokers through the Bulkloads app, allowing the documents to be retrieved through the website.

The full TMS will be rolled out in June.

“I believe the solutions built can improve safety and create efficiency by allowing the driver to be paid faster and the shipper/broker to collect...

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