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Overdrive: Spot market: Same old story or ‘totally different world’?

Longtime independent owner-operators Daniel and Phyllis Snow have worked the spot market consistently for the last decade or so -- that is, up until about two months ago.

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Overdrive: In a tough spot market, strong relationships with those who feed you will pay off

If the old saying is true, owner-operator and small-fleet businesses that make it through to the other side of the current freight environment, declining for the better part of a year, will be as tough as they come.

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Land Line: Podcast: Committee eyes underride guards

The newly formed Advisory Committee on Underride Protections recently met for the first time. We recap the inaugural meeting, during which both sides of the issue made their respective cases, as NHTSA considers a side underride mandate for trailers.

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Wall Street Journal: Importers Raise Port Alarms; VW Seeks Supplies; Egg-flation Cracked

New labor disruptions at U.S. West Coast ports are setting off alarms for importers and raising the stakes in longrunning contract talks.

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Yahoo! Finance: Shipwell TMS Adopts Dynamic Rating and Enhances Load Board Access Through Integration with DAT Freight & Analytics Solutions to Expand Options for Shippers

Shipwell, provider of the award-winning Shipwell TMS platform, today announced its new integration with DAT Freight & Analytics, North America's most extensive and trusted freight marketplace.

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Talk Business and Politics: Analysts: Freight recession about 40% complete

Industry leaders had expected an economic recession in the first half of this year, but they got a freight recession instead. Freight demand remains soft, and capacity is loose.

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The Food Institute: Is the Trucking Demand Slowdown a Bellwether for the Economy?

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s effort to slow the economy by raising interest rates without triggering a recession may have failed if conditions in the trucking industry are any indication.

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Built In Colorado: ‘You Can Do This!’: Bootcamp Grads Shared Advice for Successfully Launching a Tech Career

Software developer bootcamps are exhausting and daunting. Add parenting a less-than-one-year-old baby to the equation and it becomes an undertaking that seems downright impossible.

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DC Velocity: SmartHop reports that DAT integration helps fleets boost earnings in challenging times

Nearly two years into an integration partnership with DAT Freight & Analytics, the numbers bear it out: truck fleets using SmartHop’s freight booking and fleet management platform are benefiting from increased revenue and average rate per mile, as well as time saved.

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Land Line: Podcast: What’s behind the surge in cargo thefts

Criminals have set their sights on truckers in 2023. Cargo theft and fraud schemes have skyrocketed over the first five months of the year. Keith Lewis of CargoNet tells us what’s behind the spike – and what you can do to protect yourself.

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