A complete profile is one of the best ways for uShip Service Providers to market their business and win more jobs, so uShip is excited to announce our new "Profile Completeness" feature, which helps Service Providers determine exactly what to add to their profile to attract more customers.
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To help Service Providers better distinguish between shipment types, we have changed how freight shipments are defined on uShip. There are now two types of shipments that can be thought of as "freight": freight ready shipments and freight eligible shipments.
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We get a ton of interesting emails here at uShip - most of which are not fit for re-publishing. But every now and then, we get an email (okay, in this case an email with a picture) that I absolutely have to share with you. Lou, thanks for your enthusiasm,
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Last week, the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission proposed an increase in gasoline taxes of up to 40%. This increased tax revenue would be used to improve damaged and aging roads with the hopes of reducing traffic deaths.
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It should not come as any surprise that the number of women in traditionally male-dominated industries is growing. A few days ago, AOL Jobs posted an article about a recent report by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.
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Not infrequently I’ll look at my clock and realize that I’ve just lost an hour to Wikipedia ( note to boss: Not at work, I promise!) . Looking up one entry brings links to dozens of other entries and so on until I’ve found out things I never knew before.
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The WSJ has a good article ( The Road to $100 Oil – and Beyond ) about the path of oil prices over the last decade from $10 to $100 a barrel. Given that gas/deisel is a large component of transportation prices, this likely means higher tranportation costs
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