FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For example, trades that are made through the Robinhood app are executed by hedge funds like Citadel. The benefit to the hedge funds is that they can pick up on trends and ensure that their money is ahead of any of those trends. The trucking market is volati le. Gaining objectivity in the trucking market.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

For example, according to Global Trade Magazine , “One critical factor that executives should monitor closely is logistics management. Without excellent and clear communication, these trends will not be identified and acted upon until it is too late. The costs of logistics as a ratio of total expenses are too significant to ignore.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But again, there are factors that disrupt this otherwise standard trucking RFP process. In regard to the freight situation between 2008 and 2016, Trucking info.com noted how rates evolved from “since the bottom of that recession, contract prices have averaged a 1% quarter-over-quarter growth (annualized). trucking market.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

And as reported by Supply Chain 24/7 , “Leveraging technology, shippers are able to see regional trends and specific lane cost information, as well as driver preferences, while carriers have access to details like loading/unloading times and lane history data.” Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Consider this example. Without supply chain visibility, a retailer cannot realistically move freight to other markets to take advantage of trucking capacity. Yes, AI and machine learning build on algorithms to isolate historical trends and derive a likely transportation rate. Consider this example. . Request a SONAR Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

Shippers will not be willing to accept a lack of trucking capacity or last-minute price changes in an industry that is becoming more transparent. As an example for these negotiating capabilities, let’s take a look at the following lane, Los Angeles, CA to Dallas, TX. Request a SONAR Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Freight technology advancements, such as carrier-managed scheduling and seeing total market activity for a given area, will reduce waste by ensuring truckers spend less time loading and unloading trucks. And if wait times do grow too long, carriers can turn to freight data to show general trends and bill detention charges accordingly.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These factors are further seen in top-industry trends. This trend is changing land use patterns and contributing to increased truck traffic and competition for curb space in residential areas. As an additional example, consider these other FreightWaves SONAR indices and their relative modes. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

To cite just one example, a study published in late 2023 on the introduction of wearable exoskeletons found that they could reduce muscle strain in workers with the most strenuous jobs by up to 30 percent. The focus here is on sensor-based safety and ergonomic workstation design at transfer points and the periphery of the line, for example.

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FreightWaves SONAR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For example, the Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI) is a 7-day moving average of shippers’ requests for capacity. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo. FreightWaves SONAR platform highlights many of the changing market dynamics surrounding weather events.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

The comment caught my attention because later that morning I was going to moderate a discussion with Dan Dershem , General Partner at Supply Chain Ventures, about emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous trucks, and digital freight. Adrian Gonzalez and Dan Dershem Talking Tech Trends.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 12, 2021

Anyone that has made sales calls at a non-asset brokerage has heard this response daily: “DO YOU HAVE TRUCKS?”. And sometimes followed by: “NOT SOMEONE ELSE’S TRUCKS, YOUR TRUCKS?”. Should we buy a truck?”. Your liability is limited and risk are mitigated to the operations within your walls. . So why get assets?

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

This lane-level intelligence provides insight into specific markets, origin/destination stability and contracted rates to inform both short-term and long-term (annual) trucking RFPs , freight network optimization decisions and more. Knowing the trends of the lanes can help widen their margins. . Request a SONAR Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The reasons for a carrier to reject the load tender are: 1) lack of trucking capacity; and 2) the rate is too low. For example: If there were 10 national loads tendered on March 1st and on March 2nd there were 11 tendered loads, the March 1st OTVI.USA value would be 10,000 and the March 2nd value would be 11,000. RHAUL.ATL = 50.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2018

The focus of our session is “Today’s New Normal” — a discussion about emerging trends and technologies in the industry, everything from e-commerce to blockchain, and what it means for supply chain and logistics professionals. OOIDA Leading Fight Against House Bills to Allow Younger Truck Drivers (HDT).

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This week, learn how freight market participants, especially trucking carriers , rely on both the Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Rack (ULSDR) data index and the FUELS index to measure diesel fuel price volatility and to understand its impact on their operations and the freight market at large. Rack prices set the general trend for retail prices.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Automated Truck Firm Raises $60 Million (WSJ – sub. Turnpike travelers will see semi-autonomous trucks on the road this year (Cleveland.com). Finally, more news this week related to self-driving trucks and vehicles. Omnitracs LLC, a provider of remote monitoring systems for truck fleets, led the new funding round.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost (TechCrunch). Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?”

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Locus

MARCH 27, 2024

Take XYZ Retail for example, juggling 100 diverse orders ranging from on-demand to next-day deliveries. Consider a scenario where two trucks head to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a less crowded area compared to the bustling Midtown. Schedule a demo with us! This is where the magic of optimal routing comes into play.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

The retailers that performed the best over the past year were generally the ones that sold essential goods, such as food, or benefited from the trends of the hour, such as home repair. have the confidence of knowing the exact volumes that each port handled to identify key market-share trends across U.S. containerized imports.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, they can be slowed down when a forklift comes close, avoiding an emergency stop at an intersection. 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. IFOY TEST REPORT.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

Some examples of what a user could ask Coleman: – “Coleman, what is the accounts receivable balance for ACME Corp?” In short, Transfix is responding to the convergence trend I’ve been writing about for several years (see Putting 3PLs and Software Vendors in a Box and What Do Shippers Want?

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For example, if there were 700 intermodal shipping containers moved between City A and City B in the past week, that lane shows a total ORAIL value of 100. Rail intermodal is defined as the long-haul movement of shipping containers and truck trailers by rail, combined with a truck or water movement at one or both ends.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

operate 20 or fewer trucks (while 90% of those operate with six or fewer trucks). The national economy depends on trucks to deliver nearly 70% of all freight transported in the U.S. More insight into overall trends in volume and rates lowers risk overall. That one is the simplest of all.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Warehouse workers and advanced robots work side by side as orders are prioritized, picked, packed, and loaded onto trucks. Metrics and KPIs can (and should) be established to identify bottlenecks in the process, positive and negative trends, areas that are improving, and areas that need improvement.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 24, 2021

You see examples of this strategy in large brokerages today. Examples of portfolio diversity in the freight business. In this SONAR chart, you can see the comparisons of trends seen in the previous SONAR PIMS ticker. . XPO Logistics strategy has attacked diversity harder in the last few years. The SONAR chart above shows a 7.8%

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Talking Logistics

MAY 4, 2018

Freight Railroads Get Boost from Tight Trucking Markets (WSJ – sub. Anheuser-Busch orders hundreds of hydrogen trucks from zero-emission startup Nikola (The Verge). Is this another example of us going after the “next new shiny thing” versus investing to improve what we currently have? billion (Reuters).

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

However, the trucking market continues to change and plays a role in setting standards for brokerage salaries. For example, the following BLS map shows the annual mean wages by state: From [link]. For example, brokerage clerks in New York have an annual mean wage of $70,890. Request a SONAR demo online to get started.

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