dispatch

Truck dispatching is about maximizing efficiency, reducing downtime, and ensuring compliance. The best dispatchers are logistics strategists, connecting drivers with freight, optimizing routes, and handling regulatory and admin tasks so carriers can focus on the road.

With freight markets fluctuating and compliance requirements tightening, owner-operators and small fleets are increasingly turning to dispatching services to stay competitive. The right dispatcher can boost earnings, minimize deadhead miles, and streamline back-office operations. But with so many services available, how do you know which one adds value and which one just takes a cut?

This guide breaks down the role of dispatching services, the benefits of outsourcing logistics, and how to find a dispatcher who actually improves your bottom line.

“When we first got started here, probably 75% of my day was answering emails and phone calls asking for updates. Now that all that is being sent directly from the drivers to the customers, it gives me a lot more time to handle planning and other issues that come up.”

Dispatch, a last-mile, e-commerce delivery platform, has expanded to California and New York, giving it a presence in 57 U.S. cities.

What is Cross-docking?

With LoadStop — an enterprise, cloud-based and carrier-focused platform — carriers of all sizes can grow revenue, streamline internal workflows, optimize fleet management and dispatching, and reduce time waste through process automation.

Trucker Path listens to what drivers need and hands them the tools to mitigate some of the most common struggles they face everywhere they go.

Last-mile delivery technology provider Dispatch has raised $50M to fuel its expansion across the U.S.

Dispatching is marked by mostly smaller companies, and Trucker Path already comes in at a larger-than-normal size.

Positive Train Control, and how it works

The Truckload Carriers Association’s Truckload Academy has unveiled the next generation of its Fleet Manager Certificate Program. Produced in partnership with CarriersEdge, the new program includes updated content and a new subscription model that allows unlimited participants in a company to complete the program for a fixed monthly fee. Incorporating feedback from participants completing the […]

Wise Systems is building a fully automated system that allows teams to manage their entire fleet through cloud-based machine learning and provides dispatch routing that lets businesses plan, manage, and coordinate all aspects of deliveries with complete visibility.

FreightWaves releases the Headhaul Index, a measurement of the discrepancy between inbound and outbound volumes.

Dispatch Science is a new approach with new technology with constraint-based, problem solving capability with current traditionally based solutions.