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Matt Sullivan

Matt Sullivan joined DAT Freight & Analytics in 2014, covering topics for motor carriers, freight intermediaries and shippers. Prior to joining DAT, Matt spent more than 10 years in journalism as a writer and editor for the Anchorage Daily News, Nashville Scene and other publications.

Solving for Uncertainty: Why freight rate forecasts benefit from transparency

The freight market has been volatile since the start of the pandemic. Now, with the conflict in Ukraine, inflation, increased

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4 keys to freight rate forecasting with artificial intelligence

Transportation providers make pricing decisions every day to attempt to win loads that will be moving in the coming days,

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Spot and Contract Freight: What’s the difference and why it matters

Classification systems make it possible to group and organize data, like freight rates, to compare with other data. In the

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The widespread impacts of rising fuel costs

The national average for diesel peaked at $5.25 per gallon in March 2022, nearly doubling since the start of 2021.

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Bid With Confidence: How to win on your terms

After the pandemic flipped the world upside down, the truckload marketplace cratered. Then, just as quickly, it rebounded, with pent-up

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Top 5 factors impacting the global supply chain and freight market

The ongoing pandemic, rising fuel costs, inflation and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are wreaking havoc on the economy, roiling freight

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How fuel cards help trucking companies tackle inflation

These days, everyone’s feeling the pinch at the pump. For trucking companies, it’s especially painful, since fuel is the largest

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How shippers can use analytics to optimize fleet management

Shippers have been evaluating private, dedicated and for-hire fleet strategies more frequently during the last two years of freight market

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3 ways to optimize LTL and truckload strategies with rate analytics

Of all the variables in transportation, which ones do shippers evaluate most often? The answer is the mode, but not

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Reefer Report: Valentine’s Day boosts demand

Soon sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and gifts in the name of St. Valentine. According to

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Reefer Report: Temp-control in high demand this winter

As winter sets in, shippers have been increasingly adding freeze protection or protect-from-freeze (PFF) to bills of lading to traditional

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Transportation Tuesday Tip #15: How freight factoring works

Read more from our Transportation Tuesday series.  Freight factoring is not only a lifesaver when it comes to preserving budgets

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