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Freight Costs: 5 tips to get the biggest bang for your buck

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Budgeting and managing freight costs are critical to overcoming any disruptions and increasing profitability.

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7 Freight broker sales tips for setting the hook with prospects

FreightWaves SONAR

Of all the various freight broker sales tips, setting the hook is essential for getting and keeping a prospect’s attention. . Using a hook shows that you are not just calling down a list of companies, but have done your research and might have something of value in freight broker sales to share with them. . 3: Freight data.

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Conducting a Trucking RFP: Tips for Shippers to Optimize Contract Freight

FreightWaves SONAR

With that in mind, the trucking RFP has come into play as a more significant undertaking for 2021 contracts as the freight market saw volatility in 2020 on the spot market due to historic tender rejections and volumes adding to increased prices. A confident, data-driven trucking RFP undertaking can make a big difference in freight spend.

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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Logistics

The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors. Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. Analysis of employment data. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018.

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3 Tips for Successful Chemical Logistics Budgeting in 2023

CLX Logistics

Here are our expert tips for strengthening your operations in preparation for a potential recession through more intelligent budgeting and reevaluated data-driven operation improvements. Tip 1: Save with Benchmarking. Market volatility determines how long freight rates remain valid and are typically updated yearly.

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How Freight Management Analytics Simplify Logistics

FreightWaves SONAR

Relying solely on manual shipping data analysis continues to yield poor results. And even the freight management analytics of five years ago do not necessarily respond well to today’s shifting and changing market. By using descriptive and diagnostic analytics, freight management parties begin to see not only what happened, but why.

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Top 18 Freight Podcasts to Subscribe to Now

FreightWaves SONAR

And one of the easiest ways to keep up-to-date with the latest news and trends is to follow the available top freight podcasts. Managers, team members, and anyone involved in freight tracking, shipping, logistics or management can benefit from the information and insight provided in these great freight, logistics, and supply chain podcasts.

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