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Manifest Las Vegas

Logistics Business Magazine

Join over 4,500 of the most influential leaders in logistics technology to forge new relationships and foster new strategies to help move your business forward. Experience an Expo Hall unlike any other, featuring autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, electric trucks, a start-up demo stage and tons of fun! Why Attend?

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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. This factor plays into net revenue per truck per week as well. REVENUE PER DRIVER PER WEEK (DRVREV) – The profits earned per truck each week remains a crucial piece of data for fleet management.

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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

Locus

Fuel costs: Last-mile fuel costs require careful management as they make up 25% of a truck’s operational costs over volatile price fluctuations. A recent analysis by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) indicates that if existing trends persist, we could see a potential driver shortage reaching up to 175,000 by 2024.

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7 Freight broker sales tips for setting the hook with prospects

FreightWaves SONAR

Building an opening line that draws your prospects into an article about what is happening now with load volumes and truck capacity is sure to leave them wanting to know more. This hook-setting strategy allows you to both acknowledge your prospects’ expertise as well as your own. Request a SONAR Demo. 5: Conferences .

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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

That has also increased the pressure on retailers to keep other freight and logistics costs low with more capital and expense being dedicated to the development of new omnichannel strategies. . Pressure to develop an omnichannel strategy with strong customer service levels. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo.

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Playbook – How to handle rising transportation costs?

Log-hub

As per the ATRI data, the overall marginal expenses for trucking marked a significant of 21% increase in the year 2023. To jump straight to the point, some basic strategies for handling rising transportation costs, which we’ll cover in this Playbook, are related to optimal network design and route optimization.