Growing up, I always loved Halloween, so when I was asked to write a blog post this week, I knew that it had to be something special. Although the uShip community is filled with nice, normal service providers, Hollywood has created some pretty villainous
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I just read a Forbes article entitled Ten Markets Transformed By The Internet . Included are some obvious industries - Media, Banking, Stocks, Retail, Travel, etc. What industry is notibly absent from this list? You guessed it, Transportation. Let's face
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In my role in Business Development at uShip, I get to spend lots of time talking to interesting companies about how transportation services fit into their business plans. I thought it would be interesting (hopefully I’m not the only one) to speculate
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Community involvement is a big part of our culture at uShip. Several times a year we take time, as a team, to get out in the community and try to make a difference. This past Friday, our entire team joined up with the Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Central
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As I was heading to the office this morning, it occurred to me that I rarely travel in my car without some form of entertainment. This led to me think about the Service Providers on uShip. They spend countless hours on the road…don’t they get bored? If
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In order to both better align our shipment listings with customers’ shipping needs and to improve responsiveness and communication between customers and transportation service providers, uShip has made two very important changes: shorter listing durations and improvements to Book It Now Listings.
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uShip is pleased to announce a new marketplace tool, My Rates, which allows you to input and save your preferred booking rates directly into uShip. This new feature is designed to help you book new business faster and easier, acting as a new way for Service Providers to calculate bids, save time, and win more jobs.
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uShip is excited to announce that we recently launched two optional upgrades, Featured Listings and Urgent Listings, for members who list a shipment in the uShip marketplace. Prices for each upgrade vary depending on the category.
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While gas prices fluctuated greatly during the past two years, they consistently remained over $2 a gallon during this period. Higher gas prices overall and uncertainty in what the next month will bring makes creating fuel saving strategies and technologies
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Port security became a household term in 2006 when Americans across the country learned of Dubai Ports World. DP World—owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates—acquired P&O Navigation Company, a British shipping and logistics company.
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