Monday Newsletter #8

🚚 F3 hangover

Monday, November 13, 2023

Yo, Welcome to the 8th edition of the LOST FR8 newsletter.

Busy week last week, but I’m back at home and ready to get some work done this week.

This week, we’re working on some changes to the lostfr8.com to simplify the sign up flow and get carriers.

Reply to this email with any feedback

Have a nice week everyone!

🚨 What does LOST FR8 do?

LOST FR8 enables carriers of all sizes to effectively market their services to their current customers as well as our growing community of brokers and shippers.

Our goal is to make it easy to find quality carriers by giving them tools to market themselves.

🎉 F3 Recap

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🚚 LOST FR8 Carrier of the Week

CDS Transport Inc - Chicago, IL

  • Founded in 2015 by Cristina Fetila and David Miron

  • CDS Transport runs a fleet of 53’ reefers primarily between AZ/CA and the midwest.

  • They frequently has reefer cap in:

    • Chicago, IL

    • Lincoln, NE

    • Bakersfield, CA

  • From Reed: “If I had a load that my life depended on and I could pick one driver who I trusted to get it done, I’d pick David from CDS Transport. I first started working with him in 2017 when he was an owner-op for a different carrier. We’d frequently book multiple loads in a row. He once had the foot of a trailer landing gear fly through his windshield (nearly killing him) while on a load for me. He still made it to the delivery on time. He and Christina do a great job were LOST FR8’s second customer.”

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Area of Operation

We’re happy to announce we’ve partnered with Newtrul to provide real loads from vetted brokers in LOST FR8.

We want LOST FR8 to enable carriers to put their capacity to work. The partnership with Newtrul matches carriers’ capacity with loads right in the LOST FR8 dashboard.

All you need to do is head to the newly-added Loads tab and start searching.

🐟 Freight Caviar Corner

🏭 Broker & Shipper Stuff

Have opportunities you want to get in front of the LOST FR8 carrier base?

Send Reed an email to have it featured in our weekly “hot loads” mailer that goes to our customers.

🎶 Freight Gong

  • We’re now going to regularly be checking in on the freightgong.com leaderboard

  • If you haven’t yet, make you or your company a user and start banging the gong. So far our friends at Gnosis Freight have been dominant.

🏟️ Special Events

  • Tomorrow (Tuesday 11/14) at 9pm EST, Craig Fuller will be joining Reed in our Discord for a special edition of “In the Arena”

  • This is a stage format show. It will start with Reed & Craig talking, then others will be able to join and talk as well

  • Join the Discord