With pressure on the supply chain coming from multiple sectors—ports, natural disasters, labor strikes—you name it, the 3PL industry is working day and night to connect suppliers, manufacturers and retailers and overcome these historic challenges.
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4 Sure-Fire Ways Brokers Can Respond to an Uncertain Freight Environment
After a rollercoaster ride through 2020 and 2021, the U.S. freight market was hit with a sharp spike in diesel fuel pricing, affecting both brokers and carriers in distinct ways. How can brokers anticipate future changes and compete for reliable capacity?
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Flatbed Market Update
All markets exhibit patterns of growth and decline, and the flatbed truck market is no different with cycle results surging well above the previous growth trend following COVID-19 lockdowns. How the rest of 2022 looks depends on when the inevitable regression back to the mean—or normal—begins.
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Leading from the Front
Team members are a company’s most important asset, the face of your brand to every carrier, customer, and vendor and essential for building relationships and improving lives through logistics.
Read More »How Tech-Enabled Risk Management Programs Are Widening 3PLs’ Influence
While the threat of nuclear verdicts loom large in the transportation industry, smaller claims also negatively impact insurance costs and increase paid out-of-pocket claims.
Read More »Prescriptive Analytics in the Warehouse: How Technology Enables Execution
Today’s 3PL marketplace requires innovative technology to fulfill orders quickly and accurately with best-in-class 3PLs automating data collection and management. Enter the dark planning era.
Read More »The Digital Freight Threat: It Isn’t What You Think
The "digital freight future" is now, but nearly 95% of the freight transportation industry doesn't have the resources needed to create end-to-end automation.
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