Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Freight Broker Tips: How to negotiate freight rates on your lanes

Recent trends in truckload rates cast a cloud over the North American freight market. As rates fell, record fuel prices,

If transportation were a commodity, shippers would shop for carriers online by viewing their ratings, reviews, and procuring freight contracts

Every year, shippers send out requests for proposals (RFPs) to find new carriers and re-engage incumbents who can deliver quality

Sustainability is more than just a buzzword – it has become vital to a business’s success. Government entities and consumers

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

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

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

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

Transportation costs flew off the guard rails in 2021. Truckload rates climbed as demand spiked amid a resurgent COVID pandemic,

Data silos are a natural occurring phenomenon in business. They exist whenever departments use different systems and have unique reporting

For a new owner-operator setting out on their own in the trucking business, there can be unexpected pitfalls. One of

Expanding your product line or adding new customers are classic ways to grow your business. But that growth also creates