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Editor’s Choice: Tips for Trucking Companies to Decrease Their Insurance Premiums

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This article is from Emerge and offers tips for trucking companies to decrease their insurance premiums. The number of accidents in the trucking industry is up, and so are insurance premiums. As an industry, trucking associations are advocating tort reform. Agencies Advocate Tort Reform. By 2018, the average grew to $22.3

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5 Practical Tips to Improve Your Distribution Center Operations

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Image source: Flickr | 5 Practical Tips to Improve Your Distribution Center Operations The importance of operations is typically cited as a differentiator when discussing the significance of logistics for a business. They are the source of our ability to deal with data, lower mistake rates, save labor expenses, and boost productivity.

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5 Tips on How to Save Money as a Truck Driver

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Living on the road as a truck driver is a difficult job but living on the road as a broke truck driver is even harder. Lucky for you, we’ve gathered five tips on how to save money while on the road. Truck stop prices can sometimes be high, causing you to spend unnecessary dough. Plan Ahead. Create a Budget.

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4 Tips for carriers to maximize fleet asset utilization using data

FreightWaves SONAR

Are you using your trucking assets as efficiently as possible? The needs to improve fleet asset utilization and to maintain better control over trucking costs are absolute. Loads per truck per week – Knowing these ratios will help highlight potential missed load opportunities within the network.

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

FreightWaves SONAR

Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Freight management parties can rely on these tips to recognize and respond to transportation budget limits. Transportation management depends on historical and real-time data. Think about this.

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10 shipper of choice tips to aid in securing capacity and carrier relationships

FreightWaves SONAR

Here are 10 shipper of choice tips to help enterprises secure capacity and improve relationships with carriers, not to mention transportation brokers. Another of the shipper of choice tips is that an enterprise must stand out from its competition. The best examples of shippers of choice provide services along several trucking routes.

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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.