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By understanding risk-reward trade-offs, you can choose the right business model and position yourself for success.

Turbulent market conditions have elevated transportation management into a regular boardroom topic. This attention makes it easier to influence business outcomes, but in order to get buy-in, you may have to debunk one of more common truckload transportation myths. Download this checklist to learn how to steer the conversation and earn your seat at the executive table.

Could your transportation network use more predictability and flexibility? Planning cycles are ideal times to implement strategic measures that will improve performance and minimize risks. Check out these 5 quick tips to see how data analytics take the guesswork out of planning and streamline network optimization.

After years of upheaval, supply chains and transportation networks are regaining equilibrium. For shippers, this presents an opportunity to find transportation savings and improve routing guides. Amid economic headwinds, CEOs and executives will look to transportation as an area to contain costs. With the proper planning in place, you can achieve those savings without sacrificing service. Keep this checklist on hand to help create strategic plans that will pay dividends all year long.

After sending an RFP to prospective transportation providers, the real fun begins: evaluating bids from carriers and brokers against current and future market conditions, deciding who to award, and determining appropriate award rates. Learn how to strengthen your bargaining position in carrier feedback rounds, determine award rates that will align with your budget, avoid common pain points during the RFP evaluation and award processes.

Budgeting often feels like an inexact science. From continually evolving market conditions to fractured supply chains and natural disasters, even the most thorough transportation budgets require flexibility–especially when every dollar matters. Learn how to prepare for volatility by leveraging reliable data and analytics.

Success in the dynamic truckload market depends on having accurate, relevant and timely rate data and analytics, so finding a provider you can trust is critical. Use this checklist to identify the right data provider for your needs.

Hurricane season always brings the risk of massive disruptions – not just to supply chains, but to people’s lives and well-being. That’s where the transportation industry has the ability to help lift communities back up, to rebuild, resupply, and help people and neighborhoods return to their normal lives.

Life on the road isn’t easy. From finding parking and weigh stations, to refueling and finding your next load, it’s fair to say that the job requires juggling a lot of information. That’s why we built a mobile app that includes the most useful trucking tools so that truckers have a single place to get the information they need, all in the palm of their hand.

When a brokerage was forced to lay off employees during a recession, it learned how adding technology could increase efficiency and make up for the reduction in staff.

Annual bids are exceptionally important to shippers to set their plans and budgets, but all too often they are poorly executed and create problems for both shippers and carriers that persist throughout the year.

After getting a jumpstart with technology, River Place enjoys high revenues and low overhead.