Finding a Trucking Company

FreightCenter.com was established in 1998 to help minimize the hassle of finding a trucking company.  Finding a trucking company can be a difficult task for the less frequent freight shipper.  There's no trial and error in the trucking business.  Each one of your shipments is important and it's necessary to find the right trucking carrier the first time.  FreightCenter allows you to find a trucking company online in a matter of seconds.  Using our instant rates calculator you can easily find the best trucking company for your shipment.

Follow these 4 Steps to Find a Trucking Company:

Step 1: Measure and weigh your freight.  Make sure this is after your items have been crated or palletized.  Visit our blog on how to package your freight to prevent damage during shipping.

Step 2:  Visit our website.

Step 3:  Enter your shipment type, to and from zip codes, and item descriptions.

Step 4: A list of different trucking carriers and rates will populate.  You can contact a freight agent directly at 1800-716-7608 and they can help you decide which carrier will be best for your freight.  Finding a trucking company doesn't have to be hard, click here for an instant quote!

FreightCenter.com Releases New Shipping Calculator for Ebay

After many months of work, FreightCenter.com, a leader in online freight shipping solutions, announces the release of their shipping widget. This tool allows users to create an easy to use shipping calculator and place it directly on their website or eBay listing.

Representatives from the company were in Chicago in June officially releasing the tool at eBay live, eBay’s annual convention. The company expects the instant shipping calculator to be a huge hit with eBay users that operate online stores that specialize in selling large items not suited to small parcel services. The FreightCenter.com shipping widget can also be used by website store owners to allow customers to estimate shipping quickly without leaving their website.

FreightCenter.com President Matthew Brosious is thrilled about the shipping widget. “We’ve been providing shipping services and rates directly on our website for years, and this tool will let our customers provide rates to their customers quickly with minimal setup”. The FreightCenter.com widget requires only that customers register for a free account and then enter the details of the item they want to ship as well as the origin zip code. They then paste the code directly into their website or their auction listing. Customers need to only enter the zip code they want the item to go to, and prices are provided instantly.

FreightCenter.com is based in Trinity, Florida and provides freight shipping solutions to businesses and individuals throughout the US and Canada. Visit FreightCenter.com today to create a free account, rate carriers and services, and create your own shipping widget. Visit Freightcenter or call 1-800-716-7608.

New Shipping Company Cuts Carbon Emissions by 30%

New York, NY [Oct. 7, 2008] – New York-based international shipping company First Global Xpress (FGX) has applied green business practices to the shipping industry and ended up with a faster, cheaper, greener solution to shipping a package.

By avoiding the traditional hub-and-spoke method used by large shippers like UPS, FedEx and DHL, FGX is cutting shipping time by as much as 24 hours, shipping costs up to 20% and carbon emissions by at least 30% per package. The concept has caught on, which is why FGX has become a $10 million company in just six years, shipping more than 250,000 packages per year.

Traditional shipping companies rely on an inefficient hub-and-spoke system to send packages to their final destinations. This means that a package is routed through a shippers’ “hub,” such as FedEx’s hub in Memphis, before being sent on to its final destination. In doing so, additional flights are needed, and a great deal of energy is wasted by the extra miles needed to travel to and from each hub.

FGX bypasses the hub-and-spoke system with a direct model. By partnering with over 100 commercial airlines that serve as third party carriers, FGX is able to ship packages directly to their destinations—no hubs or spokes involved. Cutting carbon emissions by at least 30% when using this method is a significant improvement to the shipping industry, since shipping by air creates a much larger carbon footprint than shipping by ground or sea. Furthermore, fuel usage and costs are both diminished, since the package travels by only one flight.

In addition to their green method of shipping, FGX is making their day-to-day business greener as well. All of the boxes and envelopes used in shipping are made from recycled materials. Additionally, vegetable-based inks are used for all printing done in the office. The company has signed on with East Coast Limousine, a hybrid car service, to use for business travel around New York City. All of these efforts on top of FGX’s package delivery system are establishing the company as an efficient, green alternative to their larger common carriers. The green business model that FGX has established has proven successful thus far, and the company plans to continue its rapid growth, committing to further green shipping practices over the next five years.

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First Global Xpress is revolutionizing the way businesses ship internationally. FGX does this by shipping direct all over the world, and in turn, by reducing the carbon released by 25%. Every day, FGX offers you the chance to save 20% on your international shipping, cut 24 hours off of your deliveries, and reduce your carbon footprint by 25% or more—all through the simple solution of shipping direct. www.fgxusa.com

Hurricane Ike Shipping Updates

UPS Freight Houston Terminals Reopened
UPS has restored service in most ZIP Codes impacted by Hurricane Ike, and UPS Freight terminals serving Houston, Beaumont and Victoria, Texas, have been reopened.

Some deliveries may be limited or delayed due to business closings, damage to roads and other transportation infrastructure, or restrictions by local authorities. UPS anticipates that service and transit times will be back to normal in most areas by the beginning of next week.

Pickup, delivery, and On-Call Pickup services are currently suspended in the following ZIP Codes: 77550 - 77555, 77611, 77617, 77650.

Diverted Trains To Cause Increase In Local Railroad Traffic

Jones County will see up to 72 rail freight trains traveling through the area per day over the next few days.

The huge increase in traffic, from about 10 freight trains on average per day, is due to damaged tracks in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Ike Sheriff Alex Hodge said. “It’s probably seven times what we normally have,” 

Hodge said.Hodge said the increase in rail traffic won’t have much of an impact here other than an increase in danger to motorists.“We ask the public to be vigilant and obey the railroad signs,” Hodge said. “We have an increased threat there.”The sheriff said officials aren’t sure how long the increase in trains will last. He said it could be a few days or even weeks.“CSX alone lost 21 miles of tracks during the hurricane,” Hodge said.