Con-way Multimodal Unveils New Twitter Feed to Help Match Carriers with Available Freight
Con-way TweetLoad(TM), a Revolutionary Information-sharing Solution, Displays Latest Load Information at a Glance
CaseStack carrier partner Con-way Multimodal, a division of Con-way Inc., announced today the launch of Con-way TweetLoad™ — an innovative, patent-pending tool that helps carriers find freight loads leveraging Twitter, the popular and convenient social media platform. Starting today, carriers can now easily access available loads from Con-way Multimodal by following TweetLoad on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ConwayTweetLoad. Carriers following @ConwayTweetLoad can quickly see the latest available shipments, along with links to further information on the Con-way Multimodal link board where the carriers can place bids on available loads daily.
Freight carriers registered with Con-way Multimodal have always been able to bid on available loads by signing in to the company’s web-based load board, LINK. Now, by following the company on Twitter, carriers will have more convenient access to load information that is updated every 15 minutes. Users — whether registered with Con-way Multimodal or not — are able to sign in to Twitter and follow the load posts, or “tweets,” for any period of time without repeatedly logging in on a separate load board. To accept loads, a carrier must be a registered partner of Con-way Multimodal’s third-party capacity network.
To create the TweetLoad functionality, Con-way Multimodal IT professionals designed a patent-pending application that extracts key information on available loads from the company’s load board, LINK, and uses it to populate individual load tweets viewable by TweetLoad followers. The application checks and transmits any new loads every 15 minutes to keep information up to date for carriers following it.
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View a YouTube demonstration of TweetLoad below or at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zL7h7kTU1M.
