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The New North American Trucking Companies 10,000 Edition Breakdown!
The launch of the North American Trucking Companies -10,000 Edition is just ONE WEEK away. Last week we shared the differences between the 5k and 10k list broken down by trailer type. Below you will...
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2 Useful Hazmat Shipping Guides
How often do you have to scrounge around to find answers when customers or carriers ask about hazmat loads? If you're like most freight brokers who aren't hazmat gurus, then your answer is probably, "I...
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SaferWatch™ Partners with CarrierLists™ for online sourcing of validated...
HEBRON, NORTH DAKOTA - April 26, 2018 - In an announcement made on Monday, April 23rd, 2018, SaferWatch™, the logistics industry leader in motor carrier information and risk management solutions, has...
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Carrier Insights with Logistics of Logistics
Founder, Kevin Hill sat down with Joe Lynch with Logistics of Logistics to talk about what we have learned interviewing 30,000 transportation carriers....
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Leads, Leads, Leads
It's all about leads, leads, leads...isn't it? Whether you're a new freight broker starting out or have an established book of business, you can never have too many leads. Here are our favorite...
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How to Find & Move Thru-Trailer Mexico Loads
Some of the most difficult, confusing, and time intensive shipments are the ones going in or out of Mexico. You have language barriers, regulatory barriers, customs barriers, and culture barriers. It...
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HOS Violations and Smaller Fleets
We wanted to share some preliminary HOS and ELD research our friends at Michigan State, Arkansas, and Northeastern have been working on lately. The massive spikes and declines in HOS violations by the...
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Which freight apps are winning market share?
We wanted to share a recent UBS analyst report we recieved a couple weeks ago. It's the first research we've seen that dives deep into the freight app market. One of the most interesting insights...
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What exactly is driver coercion?
Driver coercion rules are now two and half years old, but there's quite a bit of confusion for brokers and shippers. Here are a few quick tips and links to help you out. What exactly is driver...
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How does increasing driver pay change driver turnover?
Trucking companies have spent 2018 declaring their intentions and rolling out plans to raise pay to attract and retain drivers. While raising driver pay sounds like a common sense approach to fill...
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CarrierLists talks freight tech with Dave Nemo from Road Dog Trucking on XM...
Our founder Kevin Hill was on the Dave Nemo show recently with Dr. Jason Miller from Michigan State University to discuss the state of freight. Technology, ELDs, and HOS violations pre and post mandate...
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Survey on how the ELD mandate is impacting miles driven per day.
Our latest survey investigates how the ELD mandate is impacting carrier productivity. The key metric we used in our survey of 468 small fleets in the USA and Canada is miles driven per day. To...
View ArticleLearn the ins and outs of searching CarrierLists OnLine
You can learn the ins and outs of searching CarrierLists for the capacity you need on YouTube. We've created our first two short tutorials, and plan on adding more on a weekly basis. Below you'll find...
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Podcast: CarrierLists talks to Cerasis about navigating the capacity crumch
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Adam Robinson with Cerasis to discuss how transportation management data aids shippers, brokers & carriers to forge fact-based, transparent...
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Why we created CarrierLists.
WHY WE CREATED CARRIERLISTSWe were tired of losing out on bids and loads, because we couldn't find the carriers who were running the equipment and lanes we needed. YOUR ONLY OPTIONS UNTIL NOW HAVE...
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What's the true capacity of the for hire trucking market?
The more you work with the massive FMCSA database the more you realize that creating a database with 50% of the known trucks running up and down the highway isn't a crazy unattainable goal. It can be...
View ArticleHow to source Team Drivers in a fraction of the time it takes you now.
Teams are easy to find when you only need a single driver. They call on your load postings asking for a premium, because they will run your lane as a team. If they are actually a team or not is...
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Survey of Drayage Rates in Long Beach, Miami, and Savannah
In July 2018 CarrierLists partnered wiht FreightWaves to conduct a survey to better understand rates and capacity in three main US ports. Capacity was extremely tight in all three markets. Long Beach...
View ArticleThe art and science of heavy haul rates
Getting quotes from heavy haulers is part art and part science. Which part is more important says quite a bit about the information you have to work with. Most brokers fall into the art category. I...
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Michigan State Q4 2018 Trucking Rate Forecast
Below is a rate forecast for the remainder of 2018 my friend Dr. Jason Miller at Michigan State has developed. It looks like rates dropped significantly in August 2018. Some of this drop could be...
View ArticleCarrierLists FAQs
How is CarrierLists different than other carrier databases?CarrierLists is only carrier database that provides a comprehensive profile of carriers that go beyond what is available in public records. We...
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Carrier expectations for 2019 - freight volumes, rates, diesel, and trade.
In early October 2018 CarrierLists conducted an email survey from its 25,000 carrier partners to learn more about their expectations for 2019. 215 carriers responded to the survey. The carrier fleet...
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CarrierLists Survey: HOS, what would you like to change the most?
While the window has now closed for public comments on HOS changes, it doesn't mean you have to hold your opinion to yourself. Luckily our carrier partners don't have an issue letting us know what they...
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2019 Bid Season Carrier Survey
IntroductionBid season is here again. Last year carriers had the upper hand and double-digit rate increases were the norm. This year shippers have already begun clawing back at rates as truck capacity...
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HOS Phone Survey: What would you like to change the most?
In early October of 2018 we conducted an email survey of 214 small fleets to find out which hours of service rules carriers would change, if they could ony pick one. We followed this up with a phone...
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Drivers thoughts on pay, shipping locations, infrastructure, & ELDs
How have the past twelve months affected driver perceptions for their profession? To answer this question, Kenco and CarrierLists conducted an email survey of 95 drivers in July and August of 2018....
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How close are we to the post-fax machine era in trucking?
To answer this question CarrierLists surveyed 86 small fleets, those operating 5 to 50 tractors. Our primary objective was to determine if the stereotypes of dispatch offices still hold true. Small...
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Contract vs. Spot Rates - The Spread Widens
Analysis from our friend Dr. Jason Miller at Michigan State University: We see spot rates have cooled down to late 2017 levels. In contrast, the BLS PPI index has been heading solidly upward. Since the...
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Who's winning the Freight App Wars?
In January 2019 CarrierLists surveyed small fleets running 1 to 3 trucks via email to gauge which apps are the most popular with drivers. We measured the popularity of each app by what we call...
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How many carriers are still running AOBRDs?
It looks like 40% of carriers still need to do the final migration from AOBRD logs to ELDs by December 16, 2019. While 80% of carriers running AOBRDs are planning on waiting until the last possible...
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[PODCAST] The State of Freight Pricing & What Carriers Want for “Shipper of...
Inearly March 2019 CarrierLists sat down with Adam Robinson and "The Freight Project Podcast" to discuss current trends in capacity, pricing, and how shippers and brokers can develop stronger...
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Fleets using a factoring service
We all know trucking is a capital intensive industry. Payroll, maintenance, and fuel are just the start of the daily expenses. With this in mind, CarrierLists conducted a phone survey to determine what...
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Current analysis of trucking rates with Dr. Jason Miler, Michigan State...
Updated trucking rate analysis from our friend Dr. Jason Miller at Michigan State University: Truckstop.com just put out their spot rates and it does appear that we are finally reaching the bottom of...
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Trade wars, ocean rates, and trucking
Our friend and colleague, Henry Byers at FreightWaves, analyzes where ocean rates should go over the coming months in reaction to the latest tariff news. We both expect to see a replay of Q4 2018 as...
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Tribal knowledge vs. concrete data in the freight markets.
I recently sat down with Tim Dooner at FreightWaves for their Insiders podcast series. We discuss how tribal knowledge in the freight markets is being replaced by concrete data at a rapid pace. You can...
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June 2019: June CarrierLists/Michigan State University FTL Contract Forecast
Here is the June CarrierLists/Michigan State University FTL Contract Forecast. The solid black line in the center is the base case contract rate forecast for the remainder of 2019 based on Michigan...
View ArticleM&A: Most interesting deals so far this year
There were over 150 M&A deals in trucking, logistics, and freight tech in the first half of 2019. Expect more of the same for the second half of the year. Below is a segment we shot for...
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Who’s really hauling spot market freight?
This is the question we answered in our latest FreightWaves Freight Intel research. For fleets running 5 to 200 trucks, we found that the smaller and larger fleets sourced the most freight directly...
View ArticleWhat are carrier expectations for the 2nd half of 2019?
Carrier expectations for increases in load volume have plunged over the past nine months. It's been quite a turn in the market. According to SONAR, Q2 2019 load volumes (OTVI.USA) were down 4.5% off...
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Which fleets are in the CarrierLists database?
One of the first questions we are asked at CarrierLists is what type of fleets are listed in our database. This includes fleet sizes, trailer types, and specializations, along with where they are...
View ArticleWhy 2019 will see a spike in trucking companies going out of business
Conditions are ripe for a spike in trucking company failures in 2019. Margins are being squeezed by plunging contract and spot rates along with an increase in operational costs. Seth Holm and I discuss...
View ArticleThe top venture capital deals in the first half of 2019
There were several interesting venture capital deals in logistics and freight tech in the first half of 2019. Venture capital cash is still pouring into the industry, so expect even more deals in the...
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Deja Vu - Is it 2017 Again?
Analysis from our friend Dr. Jason Miller at Michigan State University: Here is a look at the relative change in four key time series since January 2017. This includes: (i) spot market rates (from...
View ArticleThe odds of carrier hauling more spot vs. contract freight.
What are the odds the carriers you are talking to run contract vs. spot? Is it based on their region? Trailer types? Or is it fleet size? In the following video, we give you the parlay card to...
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Cradle to the grave vs. the buy/sell model for freight brokerage
This week we discuss Old Dominion's earnings, M&A in cold storage, along with mega merger of two billion dollar freight brokerages, Mode and Sunteck. Plus, we discuss the pros and cons of the...
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How to Find Trucks You Need in Mere Seconds
TIME IS MONEY WHEN YOU ARE MOVING LOADS That's why it's important to close opportunities as quickly as possible. Whether it's a win or a loss. The more opportunities your team can power through in an...
View ArticleOK, Boomer - How to grow your voice and your voice
Kevin Hill, Founder and President, of CarrierLists joins Steve Ferreria on his OK, Boomer show to discuss how to grow your voice and make yourself into a market expert to grow your business to new...
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CarrierLists: The Niches Have The Riches - Logistics of Logistics Podcast
CarrierLists joins Joe Lynch on his Logistics of Logistics podcast to discuss how the niches have the riches for freight brokerages. Listen to the full podcast here on Apple PodcastsOnce you are...
View ArticleYou won the contract loads...now what?
How do you onboard new customers? How do you transition the account to account managers or carrier sales? Or are you operating a cradle to the grave model? We cover these topics and much, much more on...
View ArticleFreight broker sales with Jordan Belfort, The Real Wolf of Wall Street
Dooner and I are live from FreightWaves' 3PL Summit with special guest Jordan Belfort, The Real Wolf of Wall Street, discussing selling to shippers. PS - You can catch Dooner and Kevin Hill (Founder of...
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