PLS Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

In truckload shipping, capacity for a fair price is what companies and logistics providers are searching for. almost two-thirds of them are already driving, loading or unloading someone else’s freight, which can complicate finding a truck for a good price. Even with all the available trucks in the U.S.,

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Shipping is complicated. No matter what you’re selling in your online store, you have to ship your merchandise in bulk to a fulfillment center (what we call inbound freight shipping), and you also have to deliver orders to your end customers (what we call outbound small-parcel shipping).

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Learn how to build your shipping budget correctly. What’s in the article: Why start with a demand forecast. How to define your transportation needs. But knowing what factors to consider when preparing your shipping budget can make the process easier and more accurate. Define Your Transportation Needs .

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Ship Monk

APRIL 23, 2024

Trouble is, managing an ecommerce brand involves certain unavoidable carbon-causing activities like packaging, shipping and returns. So, what can you do to make your brand more sustainable, and where do you start? That’s what we’re going to cover today. What Does Sustainability Mean? reduce shipping costs.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 1, 2021

Less-than-truckload shipping, also known as LTL shipping, is nothing new within the transportation and shipping industry, but it has become more of a game-changer in recent years with freight rate prediction. LTL shipping rates would historically depend on freight class and the cost per hundredweight .

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GoShip Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The final price of shipping cargo, or a freight rate, is one of the most important concerns for shippers. The key to getting a good freight rate is understanding how the different freight rates are formed. Truckload vs LTL Freight Rates. That means distance primarily determines your freight rate.

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GoShip Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

Not all LTL freight is created equal. Different commodities are categorized according to freight class, and this will affect your shipping rates. To properly calculate LTL shipping costs, all cargo is categorized into 18 freight classes. What is LTL Freight Class? . Freight Class .

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GoShip Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In the fast-paced business world, mastering the art of securing favorable freight shipping quotes can be a game-changer. Understanding the nuances of creating a shipping quote can help businesses budget effectively and make informed decisions. It’s not just about moving goods from point A to point B.

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GoShip Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Just as important as developing your products and tweaking your online store, establishing a clear eCommerce shipping strategy is a critical step to jumpstart a growing business. . What is eCommerce shipping? . eCommerce shipping is more than fast delivery and free shipping. What does eCommerce involve? .

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Ship Monk

MARCH 2, 2023

Freight shipping can be frightening. Luckily, knowledge is power, and the more you know about what goes on inside a shipping container, the better you’ll be at making informed decisions that are tailored to your individual needs. What Is Floor-Loaded Shipping? What Is Palletized Shipping?

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GoShip Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

What is vendor compliance? What is vendor compliance? A well-developed vendor compliance program will help build a strong retailer-vendor relationship, allowing retailers to manage drop ship orders better and eliminate any potential issues associated with their supply chain. What is a vendor chargeback?

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As we’ve been doing every Monday, the SONAR team teaches you about another index (or two) found within SONAR, the freight forecasting platform from FreightWaves. What is the RAIL Index? What does RAIL tell freight market participants? ORAIL/IRAIL is the ultimate intermodal shipping volume tool.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) defines the correlation between inventory and your business’s cash flow. Your business’ COGS metric helps you define its gross profits, financial management, and overall efficiency. Depending on what state you do business in, you will be required to collect sales taxes by remitting them to the state.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In anticipation of the 2018 holiday shopping season , transportation trucking, including Less-Than-Truckload (LTL), Full Truckload (FT), Parcel, and intermodal, will increase in value. As consumers take to their favorite retailers, also due in part to the strong economy, volume shipped will increase. Get Your Free Copy Here.

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GoShip Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Truckload freight rates play a significant role for shippers when deciding on the carrier or the company to move your freight. However, before landing a freight quote, it’s important to know which factors impact truckload rates and how they are calculated. What factors affect truckload freight rates?

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FLS Transport

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Top 5 Stories in Freight. The hottest stories in freight can be found here, in the Weekly Freight Report: 1. Now that OEMs are accepting orders for 2022 delivery of Class 5 through 8 trucks, fleets are jockeying for build slots ahead of what is expected to be another robust year for freight. Read more.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The past two years of volatility have many logistics leaders evolving from an annual Request for Proposal or freight (RFP) event to quarterly or more frequently to accommodate the changing supply chain landscape. 10 Freight RFP Components for Success. Introduce your company and your unique shipping needs. Company background.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

These indices are in SONAR, the freight forecasting platform from FreightWaves. . There are three indices that provide trucking leaders the freight and trucking data they need to build freight KPIs that keep abreast of revenue in specific granularities. Let’s teach you what each index measures. .

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 19, 2018

Shippers face an onslaught of information in the digital age and often, due to this information overload, shippers find navigating the complex world of shipping challenging. Much attention is devoted to the less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping mode when it comes to rooting out inefficiencies and costs as well as best practice education.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

The introduction of this first application within SONAR SCI was built with leaders at companies that spend millions of dollars on freight shipping. WHAT IS LANE ACUITY PLUS? Those transactions include millions of unique shipments, billions of miles of transit and trillions of pounds of freight.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 29, 2021

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) Understanding the nuances between freight carriers ’ business models can be confusing at best. To that end, let’s take a closer look at the three dominant models used by freight carriers and their similarities. Non-asset-based freight carriers do not own their equipment. Flexibility.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

Defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, resilience has become a core mission for companies across most industries right now. Along with managing the shipping process, a reliable logistics provider can help companies build supply chain resilience right at a time when they need it most.

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GoShip Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many key performance indicators (KPIs) that define if the company is evolving or not, but the one that has become extremely valuable in recent years is customer experience. What is customer experience? There could be a difference in how businesses view customer experience compared to what customers actually want.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

If you have been into the world of less-than-truckload shipping for more than 30 minutes, you probably heard something about LTL freight class. While the general concept of LTL shipping is easily understood, learning what a freight classification is and why it is important may be confusing. Stackability.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

If you have been into the world of less-than-truckload shipping for more than 30 minutes, you probably heard something about LTL freight class. While the general concept of LTL shipping is easily understood, learning what a freight classification is and why it is important may be confusing. Stackability.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Less than truckload shipping is a great and cost-effective option to move relatively small amounts of freight. Shippers that don’t know how to prepare LTL freight and make it more attractive to the carriers may miss out on the opportunity to land a place in an LTL trailer. What are the best practices for LTL shipments?

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Although many carriers have worked diligently towards reducing operational costs and increasing profit margins, there is still work to do for the top for-hire truckload freight carriers to improve. Quite simply, it costs money to ship freight and the amount can vary significantly by region, zone, mode and more.

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CLX Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2022

Whether from labor or product shortages, clogged ports, or geopolitical interference—shipping interruptions are a problem. However, while the state of shipping and logistics may be complicated, supply chain shortages and interruptions are nothing new to logistics professionals. Defining a Transportation Management System.

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Freightera

MARCH 15, 2022

There are the standard, frequently shipped items such as crated engines, palletized stacks of boxes containing dry food or electronics. It’s not that anybody would outright refuse to ship such items, but they do require special care and attention. Below, we’re going to focus on the specific requirements when shipping hay.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A common conundrum for companies is how to reduce their freight costs, which due to a recovery in demand following the Covid-19 pandemic have skyrocketed. Putting a lid on escalating freight costs has now become more important than ever. Here, in brief, are 12 of them: Define your freight profile.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 30, 2019

LTL shipping can be a convenient and cost-effective way to ship goods. One area of LTL shipping that may cause confusion is additional LTL services. . What are additional LTL services? When shipping less-than-truckload, clear communication between the consignee and the carrier is crucial for a successful shipping process.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As explained by Todd Dills of Overdrive , the use of LTL shipping apps is experiencing a boom. Convoy has managed to secure an additional $185 million to develop its freight brokerage app further and once released, and it will accelerate the use of LTL shipping apps around the globe. Poor data quality. Data that is outdated.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2021

There are many terms in logistics to consider, such as last mile logistics and last mile delivery , but they end up sounding confusing because all freight has a last mile portion. Broker (freight): Individual or company that serves as a liaison between another individual/company that needs shipping services and an authorized motor carrier.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The freight market continues to swing upward. It would seem to come down to tracking these truckload freight rate index values. . It would seem to come down to tracking these truckload freight rate index values. . Many enterprises have built unique real-time freight data indices.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 17, 2021

Before the pandemic, only 12-15% of all truckload shipments were spot loads. In 2020, 23% of all truckloads were spot shipments. According to DAT Freight & Analytics, van load-to-truck posts are up 219% over prior year, signaling that there is massive demand for more truck drivers. Technological advances in trucking.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 21, 2018

Surging e-commerce, demand for faster and cheaper shipping, and unrelenting demand for superior customer service are enough to make any shippers has been, but as shipping costs soar throughout 2018, shippers will be looking for ways to manage over the road modes better. Defining “better” is also a difficult task.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Unfortunately, the use of LTL DIM pricing is often overlooked for a simple reason; DIM pricing is usually associated with overnight shipping and parcels, not LTL, explains Satish Jindel via JOC.com. In reality, the current rates and practices in determining the shipping cost for LTL carriers are unsustainable. Handling characteristics.

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