Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Six Ways to Gain Capacity Now

Capacity will continue to be tight in the coming months. That was the consensus of a TIA panel discussion I

Jason Fullen, president of Fullen Transportation Company Jason Fullen is the first to tell you that the staff at Fullen

You already have a load from Point A to Point B – let’s say it’s a weekly van load from

If there’s one take away from this eventful winter, it’s that truckload capacity is at a tipping point. The impacts

Would you add a leg to your trip that boosts your total trip revenue by nearly 50%? DAT RateView™ automatically

Most brokerages save a lot of time and money when they implement a TMS. But over the years, I’ve found

Your brokerage firm uses many different ways to build business relationships with your customers. Your activities may range from phone

With the new year, commit to improving the way you approach shippers’ Request for Proposals (RFPs). DAT and McLeod Software

Are you running a lane where you are just eking out a profit? When you have a good headhaul rate,

It has become a standard exercise to provide rates in response to a Request for Proposal (RFP) from your shipper

A lot of carriers are now on the cusp of their “slow season,” a lull in freight activity that typically

When River Place Logistics of Raleigh, North Carolina, launched in 2009, the founders encountered a problem they hadn’t anticipated—the credit