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Case Study · Steel & Pipe

245 loads. 99.6% loss‑free. One steel distributor.

What a 17-month open-deck lane program actually looks like — volume, lanes, carrier strategy, rate protection, and the controls that keep steel freight accountable.

Freight brokerage history for Tube Supply, a Triple-S Steel family company — see disclosure below.

245Loads · one steel distributor
99.6%Delivered loss-free
104Carriers sourced
80%Volume on 3 core lanes

Case Study · Tube Supply, a Triple-S Steel family company

Seventeen months of open-deck steel, managed like a program.

Every load open-deck. Every load steel, pipe, or metal products — API pipe, OCTG, plate, and specialty metals on flatbed, step deck, and hotshot.

A lane program, not random freight

80% of all volume ran on three lanes:

  • Houston → Odessa, TX — 128 loads, the oilfield backbone
  • Houston → Edmonton, AB — 61 cross-border loads, zero service failures
  • Houston → Midland, TX

Capacity under pressure

Trucks secured through tight markets, holidays, and Blitz Week. 104 carriers sourced across the account — real reach into specialized open-deck markets where “no trucks” is the industry default.

Rate protection, not spot-chasing

When the spot market ran 30–40% higher, we held the customer’s known lane rate and adjusted only for fuel — then re-quoted down when the market cooled. We protect the rate you know, not chase the spot.

Accountability, in writing

One confirmed product issue across the program — and it produced a stricter standard, not an excuse: pre-departure photos, BOL and piece-count verification at origin, delivery photos with signed POD, and an incident file the moment anything looks off.

Verified on every load

Loads run with CarrierView load verification: truck cab card and plates, unit photos, empty-trailer photo, load photos and seal, BOL and POD collected in-system.

The dedicated-lane model

Concentrated lanes let carriers be planned and committed. With a weekly forecast — even tentative — we build a committed bench on your core lanes: fewer scrambles, steadier rates, faster coverage.

Proof, not stock photos

Real loads. Real photos.

Every image below is an actual load we managed — pipe and steel, strapped, secured, and documented. This is the CarrierView standard in practice.

Make us prove it on one lane.

Send one lane — commodity, origin, destination, weight, timing. You’ll get a straight quote and a carrier that knows steel.

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UR Freight 365 LLC arranged transportation for the shippers and projects named on this page as a freight broker, operating through licensed broker partner Booking Logistics LLC (MC-1503468). Client and project names reflect freight brokerage service history only — no affiliation, partnership, or endorsement is implied.