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SONAR Indices & Insights: Use the RESL Index to measure retail sales trends to help predict shifts in the freight markets

FreightWaves SONAR

This helps measure the demand for finished goods across a variety of categories such as department stores, furniture stores, electronics and more. The retail sales trends data can be broken out into categories for a more granular understanding of performance in various retail sectors. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Load Matching: Optimizing Logistics Efficiency in the Last Mile

Locus

Carrier Requirements: Carriers also have their own preferences and limitations regarding the load they can carry such as geographic coverage, equipment availability, capacity, specialized handling capabilities, and contractual obligations. Thirty-five percent of trucks travel empty in the U.S., Let us examine two major challenges: 1.

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What shippers need to know about how carriers price freight with historic, peer and market data

FreightWaves SONAR

The fact remains that within freight transportation protocol, trucking capacity is finite. Available drivers will not always be accessible to handle loads, affecting freight pricing rates and fees when special capacity considerations are needed. This factor plays into net revenue per truck per week as well.

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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: e.scala by Stow Robotics

Logistics Business Magazine

IFOY category : Robot. The manufacturer stow robotics is coming to the IFOY TEST DAYS in Dortmund with a demo system of a classic goods-to-person shuttle system, which was transported from the truck to the test hall in one go. CLICK HERE to watch a video. IFOY TEST REPORT. IFOY Test Verdict. market relevance ++.

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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: SYNAOS IMS Vehicle Localization

Logistics Business Magazine

IFOY Category: Special of the Year. One such blind spot is the fact that most of the forklift trucks that drive around in companies are still controlled manually and are therefore not digitised or only rudimentarily digitised. Even the truck that is always running late can now finally be pointed out. Description.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

per person — on the holiday this year and, perhaps unsurprisingly, their top spending categories are food and beverages. The Biden administration is expected to soon issue a strategy for placing charging infrastructure for electric freight trucks in strategic and busy corridors. billion — or an average of $44.40

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Retail disruption and K-shaped recovery highlight importance of freight data

FreightWaves SONAR

Heightened demand uncertainty with variability by geography and category. Reduced labor availability and labor inflation. . Are containers being transloaded into 53-foot dry vans and trucked from portside markets, or are the rails capturing more market share of outbound surface shipments to the inland markets around the U.S.?