Industry concentration: the forgotten car carrier problem
Between 17,000 franchised American car dealerships, around 35,000 car carriers and an endless supply of brokers, the auto hauling industry is robust and fragmented...a lot of the industry is owned by only a few companies....
What kind of trailer should a beginning car hauler get?
Deciding your truck and trailer combination can be tough for beginning car haulers. Should you choose a tractor and double decker trailer? Do you get a Ford F450 and a wedge? These questions require a lot of thought. For a first time hauler, it is hard to make a decision. A short description of your company and the services you offer...
The climate is changing the global food system
What would happen if Indonesia’s port of Tanjung Priok was hit by an earthquake, flood or tsunami, and shut down for hours, days or weeks? A flood strong enough to wash away Indonesia’s busiest port might seem unlikely, but with the global climate changing, some analyses of recent data suggest that what used to be a 1-in-100 year extreme weather event during the 20th century is likely to increase to a 1-in-30 year event by 2040....
Super WiFi Could Use Television Spectrums To Disrupt Wireless Market
Super Wi-Fi. The words sound pretty great together, don't they? Like a deity. Omnipotent. So powerful. So many possibilities. Two scientists from KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany have proposed a creation of just that, a Super Wi-Fi, from terrestrial broadcasting...
The Ultimate Guide to ELD and Hours of Service
Super Dispatch has been writing about the ELD mandate for over a year now to help our customers prepare... Now we have all the information you need to know about the Electronic Logging Device Mandate and Hours of Service from the FMCSA... Over the next few weeks, we will address some of those questions in a series of videos...
BacklotCars reaches faster car transport times enabled by our Shipper API
Four years ago, founders Justin Davis and Josh Parsons were working at Manheim Auctions. They saw a broken system – limited access to inventory, capital and inefficient transport. ...BacklotCars is connecting dealers across the United States and quickly becoming the easiest way for stores to both source, sell, transport and finance wholesale inventory...
RCG Logistics first opened its doors in 2005, when Alex Marinov decided to make the plunge into auto transport brokering.
Like many great businesses, when RCG first started, Alex worked alone out of his own home. Before growing (and eventually partnering with Super Dispatch) he started by organizing his business with paper spreadsheets and building a client base from auction work. With that hard work as his foundation, RCG is now a successful auto transport brokerage company that boasts nearly 50 employees. Read more about RCG here…
At times, brokers and carriers can seem to be at odds, vying for the loads of shipper customers in the auto transport industry.
But at Super Dispatch, we think the entire car shipping industry is based on great communication – especially between carriers and brokers. Despite protests from some carriers, brokers provide a necessary service for some shipping clients, which can be overlooked. Read about underrated services that a broker might offer here….
As of the last week of April, the largest car hauling load board Central Dispatch, surpassed 54,000 load offers. Spring is usually a busy time for trucking, especially car hauling, but 54,000 is quite a bit higher than the average. In years past, Central Dispatch can range in load offers from 25,000 to 40,000 that sits on Central at any given time. So what gives? Why now?
This month’s Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion meeting was moved to May 12 to celebrate National Digital Inclusion Week. The KCCDI celebrated by holding a special 3-hour meeting with a panel discussion and Skype call to the National Coalition for Digital Inclusion to discuss the progress in digital inclusion, as well as mistakes and hurdles.
Though Digital Inclusion Week was a way to celebrate efforts made toward closing the digital divide, the meeting also focused on ways to improve those efforts and lessons that core activists have learned along the way. Read more about the KCCDI here…
A new type of business accelerator geared toward infrastructure and construction businesses is up and running in Virginia, and Kansas City-based architecture startup PlanIT Impact has won a chance to participate in the business boot camp’s first year.
Smart City Works, a non-profit business networking company, has found that construction and infrastructure startups require a different kind of business accelerator than other companies, largely because of their investments in physical developments. Read more about who they invested in here…
The Health Innovation Team on April 13 hosted a telehealth education workshop called “Reimbursement to Value in Telehealth.” The discussion centered on informing medical practices on the use of telemedicine to benefit patients, insurance and providers alike. The workshop was the first of its kind to be hosted by Kansas City Digital Drive, and more than 30 medical professionals attended.
Read more about how the Health Innovation Team advocated for telemedicine in Missouri…
What critique do you have of your own work? Is there anything you’re constantly trying to work on?
That’s an awesome question, I’ve never had that question before, so congratulations. I think definitely I’m super critical of myself. I’ve had people ask, “do you ever stop after something happens and celebrate that it happened?” and I’m like “no no no.”
I think my biggest criticism if my perceived inability to bend to accessibility… Read more of Ill-esha’s interview…
Charles Jones is not wrong: it seems many large Brokers are contributing their own eBOL app to the ever-expanding pool of “Broker Apps.”
What are Broker Apps?
These electronic Bills of Lading apps perform the traditional electronic Proof of Delivery (with inspection photos and customer signatures.) Read more...
Do I need a CDL with just a truck and flatbed trailer?…Do I have to have CDL to haul 3 cars?
These are some common questions that we get in the support window here at Super Dispatch. Because we have some former car haulers in our team, we decided to do a little overview of CDL steps and requirements. Read more…
Billy Martin did not know what to expect before delivering his pitch on Friday, Sept. 18, to a group of judges and fellow entrepreneurs at the Techweek event in Kansas City.
As one of 20 finalists for LaunchKC, a business model competition for technology startup firms, Martin and his company Ulytic were about to take the final step before finding out if it would be one of 10 companies to receive a $50,000 check to support the next phase of his business. Read more at KBIA….
The University of Missouri Department of English sent a letter to the UM Board of Curators and UM System President Tim Wolfe Wednesday morning informing them of the department’s unanimous vote of no confidence in MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. Read more at KBIA…
One wall of Tucker Greenhouse backs up against the walls of the biology labs on the University of Missouri’s campus, and it is covered in graffiti.
“Always do your best,” the graffiti reads. “What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
The graffiti is made of moss — not paint — and the plant grows against the wall like it would on a tree or rock in the woods. Read more at CAFNR Corner Post…