CHICAGO, IL:
August 31, 2010
Freight technology provider Freight Access, Inc. announced their company is nearing the anticipated discharge of the world's very first freight marketplace. The software engineering provider happens to be in exploration and development for more than two years to develop a platform for all stakeholders in the freight, cargo, transportation, trucking and logistics industry. Brad Hollister, the company's co-founder and Director of Business Development said "As a transportation executive who has a broad range of industry experience, we have identified the elements on the industry which cause problems for the stakeholders. We have focused on developing a suite of low cost solutions to help fellow transportation professionals have access to real time data to make informed and sound business decisions."
Freight Access, Inc. (http://www.freightaccess.com) has chosen to focus on exploring the difficulties of the freight industry from multiple perspectives as well as integrated solutions to all of them into a innovative and highly awaited tool for only $11 per month. Freight Access, Inc. touts its vision of truly helping the lives of transportation professionals as a result of making daily operations improved, enabling dispatchers and traffic managers to make better use of company resources and select only valuable transportation partners and reducing risk while seeking fresh freight partners.
Hollister stated "There are a lot of mis-conceptions in the industry pertaining to reducing transportation costs. Most former freight and carrier executives elect to take a position as a third party logistics provider or supply chain consultant, who are ready to teach shippers and manufacturers how to reduce transportation costs. The problem is these freight professionals themselves do not understand the forces the market plays on the freight industry, as they have come from a single carrier who focused on getting freight and adjusting pricing up and down to attract new shippers. These former LTL (less than truckload) and truckload vice presidents typically come and offer to take a freight profile, a company benchmark, and then send out a request for pricing with all carriers to get a 'bid' from all of them. The largest pricing requests I have seen include 150 or more carriers and take months to analyze. A seriously antiquated approach, which provides seriously limited results. The approach at www.freightaccess.com is different. Let's do this for every shipment. Let's get a new Request for Pricing for every single shipment sent out. This way carriers and owner operators win by filling empty trucks and shippers are able to benefit by filling empty capacity in real time."
Freight Access, Inc. has recognized a pattern in the freight industry throughout carriers during the previous market cycle. Quite a few Owner Operators have recognized that finding freight which pays for itself to transport is actually very difficult, consequently often times these independent truck drivers find themselves working for just one or several third party logistics firms or even national carriers. These ltl carriers or truckload carriers have got a primary interest in lowering the actual amount of money the drivers are getting paid so that their profits increase and frequently owner operators discover the actual amount they are actually being paid for a shipment is slightly able to cover costs of driving. Furthermore, many third party logistics firms have sprung up which are not paying drivers within tolerable terms, if at all in some instances.
The freight industry continues to be craving the low cost tools provided by Freight Access.com for some time. Steve Obregon, Owner Operator from Obregon Trucking in Wisconsin is a strong supporter of Freight Access's platform. "I've looked at what they're doing and can't wait to get going on it. I am sick of sitting for days for one of my brokers to call me with a load. I constantly call them to say you got one yet, you got one yet? It will so nice to find a load before I even get to the place and also to look about if I'm making or losing money on it."
Freight Access, Inc.'s freight marketplace technologies is at present finishing beta testing. If you're interested in becoming a beta tester, contact Freight Access, Inc. by calling 312-450-3020 or by emailing a request (with "BETA TESTER REQUEST" in the subject line of your email) to marketing@freightaccess.com.
http://blog.freightaccess.com/2010/08/freight-access-com-freight-marketplace-set-to-be-unvieled/
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