About Us
B4DC Breaks My Freight Biz2 LLC originated due to decisions made in Washington D.C. having a direct impact on business & our personal lives. Technology has made the world smaller, either we use the 21st century technology available to us, or we'll look back knowing why we're no longer in business.
Transportation is running on an outdated model costing US billions of dollars a year. If you don't read the following, chances are you will lose money because freight tranpsortation is going to drastically change in the near future. Moving freight from point A to point B is no longer economically sound or efficient transportation stategy.
I drove truck ten years, have been in brokerage three years, keep reading & you'll understand the concept B4DC Freight LLC. Research, web sites, information will convince both shippers & carriers the get on board. In the 1980s we didn't have internet, Ipad, Iphone, Blackberry, load boards, & all the IT we do today, shippers & motor carriers can do what they pay brokers for in house & on the road.
What is B2BTMS? A Business to Business Tranpsortation Management System creating a network so motor carriers drive as few deadhead, empty truck miles as possible, connecting shippers & carriers we keep our members loaded. We're creating an asset carrier base consisting of independent carriers who benefit from dedicated lanes consisting of independent shippers.
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Pushing small brokers out of bsusiness is not our plan, working with small brokers to American consumers and shippers advantage.
CSA2010: http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/whats_new.aspx#10748
Bill Text Raising brokerage bond from $10,000 to $100,000
111th Congress (2009-2010)
S.3483.IS
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3483:
According to OOIDA
3065 motor carriers with at least five trucks went broke in 2008 in large part due to fuel costs?
Food & Beverage: The United States Gets Serious About Food Safety
Paula Hollywood, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group | February 22, 2010
Analyst Insight: The recent, highly publicized food incidents and drug recalls have eroded public confidence in the FDA's ability to protect consumers from harm. The goal of the new Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, is to restore public confidence in the process. To do so, she is enacting new procedures designed to enforce existing laws.
US pays price for unsafe food. Health care costs US $152 billion every year, 76 million Americans get sick every year, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized, & about 5000 die.
Get Ready for the Food Safety Enhancement Act
SupplyChainBrain | January 18, 2010
Following a number of recalls due to tainted products, the government is getting involved in the process of ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain. Tom Kozenski, vice president of product strategy with RedPrairie Corp., discusses how companies should respond.
FDA Urged to Set Sanitary Standards for All Pallets in Food Transportation System
American Shipper | June 01, 2010
Cargo Theft Rates Reach Record Highs In 2009
FreightWatch International | February 02, 2010
Cargo theft rose by 12 percent in 2009, to an average of 72 cargo theft incidents per month, according to FreightWatch International’s 2009 Annual Cargo Theft Report. This is the highest level of thefts ever recorded.
www.infrastructurereportcard.org
2009 Grades
Aviation D
Bridges C
Dams D
Drinking Water D-
Energy D+
Hazardous Waste D
Inland Waterways D-
Levees D-
Public Parks and Recreation C-
Rail C-
Roads D-
Schools D
Solid Waste C+
Transit D
Wastewater D-
America's Infrastructure GPA: D
Estimated 5 Year Investment Need: $2.2 Trillion
Look at the FHWA web site below & you will see freight traffic is projected to increase & below the FHWA site I added information from AASHTO to back up the increase in freight traffic. If these sites don't come up when you click on them, copy & paste them to your browser & the site will come up. Copy & paste the following to your browser & have a look.
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/
Table 3-5. Truck Miles by Products Carried: 2002 145,173 million total freight miles in 2002, 29 million, 20% were deadhead, empty truck miles.
Figure 3-4. Estimated Average Daily Long-Haul Truck Traffic on the National Highway System: 2002
Figure 3-5. Estimated Average Daily Long-Haul Truck Traffic on the National Highway System: 2035
Growing Freight Demands Are Creating Transport Crisis
AASHTO | July 13, 2010
In 10 years, an additional 1.8 million trucks will be on the road; in 20 years, for every two trucks today, another one will be added. http://expandingcapacity.transportation.org.
The following goals, which are enumerated in the Federal Transportation Policy and Planning Act of 2009, are critical benchmarks for future transportation policy:
Goals:
- Reduce national per capita motor vehicle miles traveled on an annual basis
- Reduce national motor vehicle-related fatalities by 50 percent by 2030
- Reduce national surface transportation-generated carbon dioxide levels by 40 percent by 2030
- Reduce national surface transportation delays per capita on an annual basis
- Increase the percentage of system-critical surface transportation assets that are in a state of good repair by 20 percent by 2030
- Increase the total usage of public transportation, intercity passenger rail services, and non-motorized transportation on an annual basis
- Increase the proportion of national freight transportation provided by non-highway or multimodal services by 10 percent by 2020
- Reduce passenger and freight transportation delays and congestion at international points of entry on an annual basis
According to a recent MCClatchy news article, 5-23-10 Food fight pits big, small producers, why between 2002 & 2007 40,000 midsized farms disappeared.
According to www.abiworld.com, why there were 1,473,675 US bankruptcy filings in 2009, up from 1,117,771 in 2008, 60,837 were business filings, up from 43,546 in 2008.
B4DC Freight is a B2BTMS Business to Business Transportation System. This isn't just about transportation, it's about promoting your business through the site, post web site, while creating a network of freight shippers & motor carriers throughout the nation.
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/table3_5.htm.
Look at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_4.htm & compare to
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_5.htm & you'll understand we cannot continue to have trucks drive around empty.