By connecting auto rental companies direct to carriers, load boards allow companies to compare vehicle shipping rates and put out bids to get the best price in relocating their vehicles.
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What are they looking for?  We’ve been noticing that numerous auto shipping brokers (aka auto transport brokers) have been attempting to join a select group for professional staff from auto transport carriers that we watch over. While we appreciate, enjoy and see the significance auto shipping brokers bring to people needing assistance with their auto shipping requirements and needs that particular group is not intended for the brokers. There is better ways for auto transport brokers to connect and receive carrier rates from the carriers, after all is not that what they’re looking for?

Stay and follow along, you’ll see it’s good for you.

CarrierRates technology is focused on facilitating the auto shipping process online for auto transport carriers, independent car dealers, single rooftop franchised car dealerships, small and large auto groups. Applying internet technology to auto shipping improves the process and also reduces cost and transit times.

What we're saying when we use the phrase “facilitating the auto shipping process” is we make it very damn quick and easy for the dealers to “post” their vehicle shipping requirements and needs (2 minutes) to literally hundreds of carriers in exchange for carrier rates directly back from the carriers that also include estimated pickup and delivery dates and are commonly referred to as their "bid". Hence dealers post, carriers bid.

Now then for you, (the auto shipping broker) here’s the best way for you to connect with them (the auto transport carriers). It’s good and easy for you too. The best way is through CarrierRates. It’s good for you because CarrierRates is a neutral platform (not a carrier..not a broker). Remember earlier we mentioned we appreciate auto shipping brokers and we do because we chose not to engage working with the general public and appreciate the professional skill set required of quality and reputable auto shipping brokers, making this possible and good for both of us too.

We also feel it is best for the general public too, to arrange auto shipping with a quality and reputable auto shipping broker, as the general public who need auto shipping services predominantly have busy schedules compounded with limited knowledge of the complexities involved with this narrow industry. And for this is why we understand the significance of you the auto shipping brokers. Thank you.

To find out just how easy it is to get started call 206 388-3778 today!

Dealers take control easily in 2012 of all their regional and long distance auto shipping online with CarrierRates auto shipping logistics. Perfectly suited for independent car dealers, single rooftop franchised dealerships, small auto groups, and/or large auto groups. Please take a moment and read the images then check us out.

Staff from independent car dealers, single rooftop franchised car dealerships, small auto groups and large auto groups I encourage you to read the attached article. 2012 is almost here..don't get left behind.

http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-boot-camp-basic-training-for-the-personal-marketer-2011-11

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Most dealers, wholesalers, auctions, data suppliers, etc. were able to see this coming over the past few years, what measure did you or they put in place to facilitate this situation?

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News Release Issued: March 11, 2011 8:00 AM EST

DETROIT (March 11, 2011) – SmartAuction, Ally Financial’s online used vehicle auction, received the 2010 “Best Performance – eChannel” award from Avis Budget Group. The award was announced at the 2011 Conference of Automotive Remarketing (CAR).

According to Greg Thibault, Avis Budget Group’s vice president of Fleet Disposal, SmartAuction helped Avis Budget Group remarket more vehicles from its fleet than any other online auction company in 2010 and had consistently high performance levels within several key measurement statistics.

”Avis Budget Group relies on all of its remarketing service providers to meet or exceed certain performance metrics each year, and Smart Auction delivered exceptional results for us in 2010.”

Mark Newman, SmartAuction managing director, said the company’s strategy to provide a wide range of high-quality used vehicles to dealers creates an attractive platform for consignors, including rental car companies. With an average 13,500 vehicles posted on the site daily representing 40 different makes, dealers have a broad array of products to review and purchase to help stock their used vehicle lots.

“Highly engaged consignors like Avis Budget Group have found they are able to efficiently market their inventory with tools like SmartAuction because of the quality of the dealer community it draws,” said Newman. “We appreciate the recognition of our efforts as a leading auction channel and look forward to helping Avis Budget Group and other SmartAuction users continue to match the right vehicle with the right customer.”

About SmartAuction
Launched in 2000, more than 3.5 million vehicles have been sold through SmartAuction since its inception. In 2010, approximately 412,000 units were sold in the United States on SmartAuction. Approximately 104,000 units, or more than 25 percent of its volume, came from dealers, leading consignors of rental, repossession, and independent auction inventory. For more information about SmartAuction visit www.smartauction.biz.

About Ally Financial Inc.
Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC Inc.) is one of the world's largest automotive financial services companies. The company offers a full suite of automotive financing products and services in key markets around the world. Ally's other business units include mortgage operations and commercial finance, and the company's subsidiary, Ally Bank, offers online retail banking products. With more than $172 billion in assets as of Dec. 31, 2010, Ally operates as a bank holding company. For more information, visit the Ally media site at http://media.ally.com.


Contact:

Tony Sapienza
Tony.sapienza@ally.com
313-656-5005

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Mark Zuckerberg, who built Facebook into an online powerhouse with nearly 600 million users and was the subject of this year's hit film "The Social Network," has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year. The Facebook CEO beat out The Tea Party, The Chilean miners and WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange. He joins an elite list of high-tech entrepreneurs and business leaders who have been selected by Time. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was named Person of the Year at the peak of the dot-com boom in 1999, while Bill and Melinda Gates received the honor (along with Bono) for their philanthropic work in 2005. Intel's Andy Grove was selected in 1997.
Read the full story: Mark Zuckerberg named Time's Person of the Year, following in footsteps of Gates and Bezos

Here's an interesting article that did not come to be for MS and FB just released today
Microsoft executive admits company tried to buy Facebook

I am willing to bet you, a coffee over at Carbucks on fb, that if you showed this to your dealers comptroller s/he would get it.

IMPORTANT – Car Dealers remember to check anti freeze level before having wholesale vehicles shipped to auctions. It’s now freezing out there in a lot of places.

About us:
CarrierRates mission is to help dealers, auto auctions, and others vehicles shippers improve their vehicle deliveries and profits. With a comprehensive easy to use web protal for timely and competitive automotive transporation rates and schedules.

A decade ago OEMs’ where concerned on how auto transport trailer manufactures could keep up with demand. Today the automotive industry is concerned about the lack of car hauler drivers, as many of them have left the auto transport industry during the downturn.

With so many changes over the past decade, we need to collectively balance things out. Collectively together we can improve this poor utilization of man and machine, resulting in so many positive ways for all parties involved. And is exactly what CarrierRates main mission is to do, bring people together and help them achieve their goals.

For example at a car dealership, a car sales consultants may not know how auto shipping effects them professionally and personally. …Until s/he needs to have a sold vehicle shipped, a long distance to the car lot quickly, for delivery to customer resulting in commissions paid on their next check.

Shouldn’t you be thinking collectively …with CarrierRates

Hello WWW World, If you require or remotely know of any car dealers who requires auto transport services for vehicle shipping, I would like to help you and/or them improve their auto shipping process. For my first step in helping you, I ask of you to go to Facebook CarrierRates and while there – Like – the page. For you to help... other Car Dealers and/or other vehicle shippers, I ask of you to forward this on to them.

Winter arrived early in the Pacific Northwest this past week and moved across the country to others parts. Now that winter is setting up Car Dealers should plan on experiencing delays for their auto transport shipment deliveries.

About us:
CarrierRates mission is to help dealers, auto auctions, and others vehicles shippers improve their vehicle deliveries and profits. With a comprehensive easy to use web protal for timely and competitive automotive transporation rates and schedules. 

Think about this…
- Car sales decline in the month of December,
- Consumers focused on Black Friday, is for big box stores and shopping malls, but not Franchise Car Dealers.

OEM’s collectively, really needs to consider creating Rainbow Saturday as it will help consumers, dealers, third party vendors, and themselves, in moving the economy forward, for years to come.

How ?
Here let me elaborate some of my thoughts, OEM’s could work out some serious incentives for their franchised dealers, to offer consumers in late November or early December during a nationwide (or global) event called Rainbow Saturday.

When the event takes place, A percentage of these Rainbow Saturday buyers will want dealers to lay away (hold) these vehicles and pick them up a day or two before Christmas as a special surprise for a family, family member, or love one. That’s ok and good, the deals done and a little storage will not hurt a dealership. But when this happens a dealership could offer a Santa home delivery to add the much needed buyers emotional experience, that keeps them coming back. The Santa experience could works something like this, a dealership hires a Santa for Christmas vehicle deliveries, whereby the sales consultant follows Santa to customers driveway for delivery, then… has some fun with the customer, by taking pictures with the surprise new car owner(s), and Santa beside the car. Then when Santa and sales consultant return to the dealership, the pictures can be uploaded on to the new owner fb page (with permission of course), dealerships fb page and website, OEM’s website and more. This would be a memorable experience for any new car owner and one that would have them favor your dealership so much so, they would actually tell others.

This event would be a great way for OEM’s to help Franchised Dealers clear the lot of their “new year old inventory” and some brand new inventory. Franchised Dealers, would want to positioned themselves prior to the event to offer buyers incentives for their trade-ins over and beyond the trade-in value to gain repeat, referral and service center business. Here's how a dealer might want to do this, when they negotiate the trade-in during the Rainbow Saturday event they provide the buyer a service incentive as part of the event, this adds to the buyers trade in value and experience. The service incentive provided for the Rainbow Saturday event could work this way for example, a trade-in value of XX, plus a service incentive of X to be used on any vehicle within the buyers household at the dealerships service center(s). For a buyers to take advantage of the service incentive, provided during the Rainbow Saturday event, all the buyers has to do is provide the dealer with the family member names, contact and vehicles information for whom they will allow to use the service incentive, as their brand spanking new vehicle should not have any immediate need for the service incentive. Now, think about the relationship building Rainbow Saturday would do for a dealer, not only will a dealer gain a new car sale, the dealer will gain a family in their service center allowing the dealer to earn the customers trust for all their future vehicle needs. Additionally during the Rainbow Saturday event, dealers would receive the much needed benefit of being supplied some nice used vehicles for stocking into their used inventory. Yes ! some trade-in will not work on a particular dealer lot, but that’s no problem, dealers can easily post them on CarrierRates to receive competitive auto shipping bids from carriers to have them shipped to auction for wholesale.

The Rainbow Saturday event would benefit OEMs’, franchised dealers, consumers, third party vendors, and even independent dealers as they would have access to purchase a percentage of those used trade-in from franchised dealers. This event shows great signs of having consumers drive those new cars right off the lot.

Not only, will a dealers have stronger sells in December, they will have an increase in fresh used inventory, increase in their service department revenues and customer base.

The theme, could look something like this at the dealership, A huge Rainbow Saturday display done up in a Christmas kind of way, that send off the message of peace and goodwill for all. It could even make the perfect holiday decoration.

Isn’t -- RAINBOW SATURDAY -- an exhilarating thought for OEMs’, Franchised Dealers’, Third Party vendors to help consumers, resulting in simulating kindness and the economy?

It’s Fun ! It’s Doable ! It’s Scalable !

I would thoroughly enjoy hearing from all of you, your thoughts…

By: John Skelton
CarrierRates founder
Originally posted on: http://carrierrates.blogspot.com/

Hey ! There's so... much that seems to not work out in life, however I believe that there is so much more that does and for that I am thankful. I hope you enjoy and are able to give thanks tomorrow as well. Hope each and every one of you finds your, feel good spot tomorrow.

-- HAPPY THANKSGIVING --

John