Attractive as it may seem, specialty freight is sometimes not easy to calculate. Oversize equipment, hazmat cargo, temperature-sensitive freight, high-value machinery, and time-critical shipments are often used as justifications of premium pricing. However, operations in the real truck driving market, which witness the highest frequency of specialty freight losses, usually remain unnoticed. It happens so

Frequent stops are the boredom of floating paper files of the failing AS-IS certified non-profitable freight runs. For multi-stop route drivers such as LTL, regional, or urban distribution, paperwork errors often do not occur at noon — they occur late at night, fatigue, repetition, and the assumption taking over, especially when you are running frequent

Beginners in the trucking industry are typically faced with the same freight biases when they start trucking: “this freight is easy,” “that load pays the most,” “start here and you’ll make good money right away.”The statements that show these assertions almost as if they were indisputable truths — load boards, forums, recruiters, and even other

Detention and layover are two cost centers that are often not thought of clearly in the trucking industry. Many carriers see them as tiny unavoidable problems such as “paperwork issues,” “dock congestion,” or “part of the job.” But the fact is, detention and layover are costs that can be measured, compared, and otherwise frequently acted

Apart from summer heat, winter is the only other season where there are difficult times for temperature sensitive freight. Cold does not arrive with cued alarms or visible spoilage, only summer heat does this. Many times your product experiences freezing damages unnoticed during the wait, loading, short stops, or delayed logistics. When you lose product

Transportation of hazardous materials is a magnet for many owner-operators because of the better salaries and the guaranteed steady freight. Nevertheless, hazmat as a transport opportunity is replete with caveats: extra permits, stricter requirements for drivers, higher insurance premiums, and accountability. For most owner-operators, the dilemma is not only whether they can transport hazmat —

Short haul freight is commonly thought to be faster, cheaper, and more straightforward than long-haul operations. Short distances, unconstrained routes, and repetitive turns of the thought are all assumed risk-cutting factors. Unfortunately, short haul logistics camouflages some of the toughest-to-address trucking industry issues, freight loss being one of them at times. With money not lost

Transporting hefty and oversized cargo in a mountain area transport context is among the most demanding tasks in truck driving and heavy transportation. Whereas his roommate, his standard freight, thereby heavy cargo transports in mountain roads issues no improvisation. Every step that needs to be taken is affected by if the planning of the route

Introduction Night loading is a common occurrence in refrigerated transport, yet it is also one of the most fragile moments in the entire cold chain. Nighttime loading errors may be caused by drivers’ lack of visibility, time pressure, fatigue, or limited staffing which all combine together to form conditions where errors in reefers readily occur.

In the business of trucking and freight logistics, the transportation of complex freight is one of the most high-risk operations that is very difficult to handle due to the possibility of many errors. Errors can lead not only to performance losses but to additional problems, as well. This case of transportation of oversized loads, heavy