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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...

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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...

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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...

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