Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

A brand-new service based in Canada but covering U.S. markets as well is Freightopolis, which is selling itself as “eliminating the broker” from the carrier-shipper transaction with an online-database ...

Lane Trader, a new online load board, says it “[takes] the guesswork out of freight matching.” It charges 1 percent of a matched load and has a simple pricing structure, the company says. Other ...