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Check Call: Amazon Freight of tomorrow

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Last week we took a little trip down memory lane to learn just how Amazon Freight got its start. Some may be more intimately familiar with the origin story than others. Amazon Freight is primed to become the next UPS and won’t stop until it achieves that status, regardless of the cost.

Amazon Freight has around 40,000 trucks through independent contractors that do one-way trips, with the goal moving forward of getting backhauls or partnerships with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-amazon-freight-of-tomorrow

Check Call: Amazon ‘Gone Getcha’

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Last Sunday through Tuesday, Amazon had Deal Days on top of its three-week Holiday Beauty Haul event wrapping up next Monday. In an effort to kick-start the holiday shopping and sales early, Amazon has amped up its efforts to get people buying. It has select days throughout October and November when certain big-ticket brands have deep discounts. 

We all know Amazon is king in the retail market, and at the rate it’s going, could it be the king of the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-amazon-gone-getcha

Check Call: Flatbed is alive!

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“Hey, can you handle these flatbed shipments for us?” A sentence usually followed by “Jaws” music in the background. In almost every organization, there is usually the “one guy” who handles all the flatbed moves.

Flatbed is weird, involves a bunch of requirements and has a very small network of drivers. In a previous life, I was “that guy” who handled the flatbed moves. We love a lowboy, with overweight, overdimensional permits, and everything in between....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-flatbed-is-alive

Check Call: Stop, collaborate and listen

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Leveraging software to aid in the development of shipper relationships is something that everyone faces. How can we serve our customers and shippers on more of a relationship basis versus a transactional one? 

Currently, an overwhelming majority of loads are transactional in nature. A carrier calls in for a load on a spot board, completes onboarding and disappears into the wind. More companies are realizing the opportunity cost of one-and-done carriers.

Shippers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-stop-collaborate-and-listen

Check Call: From Mexico to New York

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Got a BOL? Good. You’re gonna need that to be shined up and ready to go come the end of the year if you’re shipping intra-Mexico or from Mexico into the U.S. The new waybill regulations add more requirements and paperwork for anything shipping across the country. The trial enforcement period is expected to begin Dec. 1.

In an effort to reduce cargo theft and the movement of smuggled goods through Mexico, the Mexican Tax Authority (SAT) wants to bring a bit more...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-from-mexico-to-new-york

Check Call — Shared truckload: The Goldilocks of freight

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The Goldilocks of freight, shared truck load (STL) — when you have freight that is too big for LTL but too small for a full truckload, that’s where you can find shared truckload. Shared truckload shipments allow shippers to pay less for faster service. 

One component of that faster service is because freight stays on one truck the entire time and doesn’t have to stop at terminals to be offloaded. With STL, shippers don’t have to wait till the truck gets full, they can...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-shared-truckload-the-goldilocks-of-freight

Check Call: The Future of Digital Freight Matching

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Automate the things you hate. In a world in which everyone is racing to improve daily processes and create more time in the day, it’s easiest to start with those things that are a daily pain point within an organization. 

Digital freight matching is designed so that a carrier can just tap and go, meaning the carrier taps to accept a load at a posted rate and then it hits the road. It serves as one of those things that can help alleviate some of the issues brokers have...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-the-future-of-digital-freight-matching

FreightTech’s Glow Up

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Over the past few weeks we’ve seen the biggest glow up that the FreightTech industry has had in a long time. 

Last week alone we saw three major players in the FreightTech world get the opportunity to take their companies to the next level. The first round of FreightTech startups has graduated to the big leagues, leaving a trail of others hoping to follow in their footsteps. 

These hopefuls waiting in the wings are bringing more to the party than their...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freighttechs-glow-up

Check Call: Not much gold in the Golden State

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The Golden State isn’t proving to hold up to its name with recent Assembly Bill 5. As the bill was written, independent contractors must operate under the “ABC Test.” Once a contractor satisfies all three requirements below, he or she can operate as an independent contractor in the state of California. The requirements are: 

  1. The person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity, both in contract and in fact.
  2. The person performs work that is outside...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-not-much-gold-in-the-golden-state

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