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What to Do When You Receive Additional Charges Deemed Valid
March 21, 2025
How to Properly Dispute Additional Charges And How to Avoid Them Unexpected additional charges are frustrating, we know. Especially when you expected everything to be in order before shipping. That’s…
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Why Keeping a Driver for 16 Minutes Can Mean Extra Charges
March 5, 2025
Driver Detention Often Results in Additional Charges: Here’s Why When detention charges arise, we often get the question of why we would charge for such a thing. The driver was…
Ground Freight Shipping Explained in 5 Easy Steps
February 18, 2025
Looking to Ship Ground Freight? Let’s Do it Right! When it comes to transporting cargo, ground freight is one of the most common and cost effective available ways to do…
Blockchain and Why a Freight Shipper Should Care
February 12, 2025
Blockchain Has Meaningful Impact on Finance as well as Freight Shipping: Here’s the How and the Why What Even Is Blockchain? By definition blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that…
Trump’s New Tariffs: Impact On Canada-USA Trade and Freight
December 9, 2024
How Will Trump's Proposed Tariffs Affect Cross-Border Trade Between Canada and the USA? The recent announcement by President-elect Donald Trump to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada…
Freightera’s Rate Defense™: Your Shield From Unforeseen Carrier Charges
August 23, 2023
Protecting shippers from unfair extra charges just got to a new level Attention freight shippers, both experienced and new! Ever been hit with a carrier’s charges that are twice the…
Freight Recession Hits C.H. Robinson, Yellow (YRC Freight), and Surge Transportation
August 11, 2023
The third largest US trucking company Yellow (YRC Freight), and Surge Transportation recently declared bankruptcy, while C.H. Robinson’s Q2 Profit fell 72%: Here’s what it means for shippers and transporters…
What to Do With Pallets Once You’re Done Shipping
May 11, 2023
How and when should you dispose of your pallet? Pallets are useful. Really useful. And they can continue to be so even after their freight shipping journey is completed. So…
An Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt for Freight Shippers
April 3, 2023
Get more than fun and eggs out of this scavenger hunt designed for freight business shippers [Updated March 2024] Time is money, so we’re making sure that the time spent…