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3 tips to negotiate better transportation rates with carriers

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

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The evolution of supply chain sustainability

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

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Is your transportation network inflation proof? Check your data sources

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

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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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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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Rising fuel prices: A trucker’s guide to high fuel costs

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

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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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How to monitor routing guide performance

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

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