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

How is your transportation network performing relative to inflation? The answer depends on what data source you use. Transportation prices

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

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

Carriers can tackle fuel prices with tools from DAT. Here’s a list of tools to help you navigate business expenses.

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

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