Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

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,

Imagine you’re leaving for vacation a month from now, but your bags have to be packed today. You likely aren’t

Transportation is a major expense, so how can shippers be sure that their dollars are being spent most effectively? Procurement

Transportation is a significant expense, and for many companies, it can mean the difference between profit and loss. That’s what

Three years ago, Hurricane Harvey kicked off the deadliest hurricane season in a decade. Along with the lives it upended, it

Here are measures that carriers can take to protect themselves against identity theft, double brokering, cargo theft and other scams.

Predictive modeling is the art of using high-power computing to learn from the past and predict the future. Most of

It’s been a perennial problem in trucking: You’re offered a good rate to deliver a load, but the rate on

For small and mid-sized brokerages, quarterly load volumes were lower than they had been in more than two years, based

Forecasting is an inexact science, and the most successful forecasting models aren’t always the most complex. Successful forecasts are the

During the last major slowdown in the spot market, back at the beginning of 2016, getting a load was challenging.

When you compare transportation trends in 2019 to the extraordinary results of 2018, this year may seem bleak. For freight brokers, 2019 was