Shippers seeking capacity and carriers looking for freight find love at first site. Shippers and carriers are meeting on electronic loadboards and exchanges, which act as Web-based bulletin boards for the transportation industry. Shippers, carriers, brokers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers use loadboards to communicate opportunities, whether it’s freight to be shipped or a truck …Read More

Are your shipments customer routed?  FreightConnections has the perfect solution! We would like to give you an opportunity to test our cost-saving platform risk free today. We have greatly aided other companies with similar business models, and are very confident we can assist you.  By eliminating third-party involvement (brokers, forwarders, 3pls, transaction fees, etc.) we have been saving …Read More

Almost any product, during its manufacturing or sale, was at one time shipped, and that shipping is factored into the cost of every product. It’s an essential part of business. In fact, more than $650 billion is collected annually in revenue by the trucking industry alone, accounting for about 5% of total GDP (Trucking.org). With …Read More

Hello everybody! It’s been a while since our last blog post, so we have a lot of news to share with you. First off I’d like to thank everybody for their support, we are now up to 500 active carriers on the site! For those of you who have already signed up but not created …Read More

FreightConnections wants to assist in providing your company with the tools to participate in “National Safety Month” We have each week’s themes complete with direct links to The National Safety Council’s free material that your company can start using today. The theme’s this year are: Employee Wellness, Ergonomics, Preventing Slips, Trips, & Falls, and Driving …Read More

OSHA is working with the Occupational Safety and Health State Plan Association to examine OSHA’s system of monitoring the effectiveness of state plans and to address a recommendation by the DOL inspector general for OSHA “to define effectiveness, design measures to quantify impact, establish a baseline for State Plan evaluations, and revise monitoring to include …Read More

CVSA’s Roadcheck 2012 is June 5-7 Carriers, we want to make sure you’re ready.  As you know, about 10,000 federal, state, provincial and local truck and bus inspectors will spread out to more than 1,500 locations in North America from June 5-7 for the annual “Roadcheck” inspections on commercial vehicles. According to CVSA, this year’s focus …Read More

If shipping is your business this will sound familiar: Salesmen and carriers want your business. The boss wants it yesterday. Accounting says cut costs. And you’re just trying to do your job. Those brokers and 3PLs say they have the best rates, but do they? Carriers, we feel your pain too. We understand you make …Read More

Ok, so far you have had a chance to see our OFFICES, read a word from our FOUNDERS, JOHN and VINCE, and meet our HEROES.  Now we’re getting ready to bring you the launch of our beta site next week.  The moment shippers and carriers across the US have been waiting for is finally [almost] …Read More

I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce myself to our shipper and carrier community. My name is Vince Aslin and I am the President and Co-Founder of FreightConnections.com.  My background is in sales and marketing, areas in which I’ve held many roles and gained invaluable experience.  I’ve always had a tremendous interest in technology …Read More