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Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

How business expansion can affect your transportation budget

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

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Is now a good time to buy a truck, pt. 2

Recently we addressed the most frequent question asked on our weekly DAT iQ Live series: Is now a good time

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4 trigger events for transportation mini-bids

Transportation mini-bids have grown in popularity in recent years. With sophisticated data analytics, these continuous procurement strategies are easier to

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Rise of the Mini-Bid: How transportation procurement is changing

Mini-bids have been around for decades, but transportation procurement teams have used them more and more in recent years. The

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The diseconomies of scale in truckload freight

Procuring truckload capacity is unique compared to other commodities, which adds challenges to creating a successful transportation budget. With most

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What are transportation mini-bids?

In the volatile truckload freight marketplace, transportation costs can change rapidly. And when the spot market surges, like we’ve seen

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How to give executives a clear view into transportation budgets

The spike in truckload shipping costs in 2020 brought extra attention to transportation budgets and operations. Given all the uncertainties

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VIDEO: How do I get my own trucking authority?

As part of our Trucking AMA series, we asked our panel of trucking insiders to share how they started their motor

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Repairing the routing guide: How mini-bids add flexibility

What’s the best way to repair a broken routing guide? In these days of COVID-19, the question comes up with

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VIDEO: How do I start working with freight brokers?

You’ve jumped through all the hurdles and got your own trucking authority – now you need to find customers. In

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Need more flexibility for your transportation teams? Create a variable budget

As another tumultuous year looms, supply chain and logistics teams are seeking ways to build robust transportation budgets that better

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2021 Shipper Readiness Checklist: Key strategies for transportation

Supply chains faced unprecedented disruptions in 2020, but the pandemic provided fresh perspectives for 2021. During a monthly roundtable meeting,

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