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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 week, learn how freight market participants are predicting shifts in the freight market that may occur with changes in retail sales trends using the SONAR index, Retail Sales with the ticker name of RESL. The RESL index is a monthly measurement of retail sales trends provided by the U.S. for year-over-year breakouts): .

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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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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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Why shippers care about reduced emissions in their network

FreightWaves SONAR

The impact transportation pollution cause on global supply chain networks A few main categories of pollution and waste can be tied back to local and global supply chain activities and poor integration practices. Request a FreightWaves SONAR demo to get started. . Request a SONAR Demo.

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7 Freight broker sales tips for setting the hook with prospects

FreightWaves SONAR

It also shows your prospect that you keep on top of industry trends. . #3: Speaking of keeping on top of trends, using freight market data is another attention grabber that is not as always evident in the list of freight broker sales tips. Request a SONAR Demo. 3: Freight data. 5: Conferences .

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

FreightWaves SONAR

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. Heightened demand uncertainty with variability by geography and category. Identify surface transportation trends being driven by U.S.