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What Shipping Analytics Tools Should Freight Market Participants Have in Their Freight Stack?

FreightWaves SONAR

For example, just-in-time fulfillment models, drop-shipping, and cross-docking avoid wasted space. For example, market conditions show shippers’ rate trajectories. Improved planning through wait time analysis benefits all parties. The most relevant example of this need for added complexity is the pharmaceutical industry.

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FreightWaves SONAR releases Capacity Trend Indices

FreightWaves SONAR

Sorting the market scores from low to high will tell a broker which loads will be the most difficult to cover. In the example above, El Paso has the lowest score, meaning that specific market is showing the most unfavorable or deteriorating capacity conditions in the country. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Not easy being green: Finding truckloads to convert to intermodal when the low-hanging fruit is already picked

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For example, Shipper X (an aggregation of two household-name CPG companies) uses intermodal for ~90% of its dry loads in a number of dense long-haul lanes. The chart below shows Shipper X’s freight lanes sorted by shipment volume. Shipper X’s freight lanes, sorted by volume, show many short hauls. .

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