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Residential LTL Delivery Perfected with Gabe Pankonin

The Logistics of Logistics

Gabe leads the Rocket Shipping team in handling the complexities of LTL shipments direct to consumer (DTC), including reconsignments, reverse logistics, claim handling/management, freight bill auditing, proactive track and trace, and workflow integrations.

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Research: What Leading Shippers Do to Obtain Better Truckload Rates and Performance

Talking Logistics

Next, researchers looked at freight attributes of shippers. This research showed that leader shippers portioned their freight by primary roles at a given origin, and this clearly had a connection to accepting first tender on a lane. Previous research has shown that tender acceptance rates is correlated to price paid.

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How to Create a Truckload Strategy That Works in Any Market

Talking Logistics

The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Your first objective is to segment your freight by some primary attributes. We have been studying truck freight attributes and strategies since 2006. Capture backhaul freight that aligns with their needs.

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Trucking Market Update and 2020 Q1 Freight Outlook

Zipline Logistics

It was a good year for shippers as freight rates plummeted for the majority of 2019, substantially backing off the historic highs the industry witnessed in 2018. But much in the same way shippers had transportation difficulties in 2018, the past year was not easy on the other side of the industry — carriers.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, a few analysts might be tasked with discovering how the profitability of an order is linked to the transportation costs associated with that order. Freight costs and capital intensity are 10 to 15% lower—and customer delivery penalties and missed sales are 40 to 50% lower. Service levels are 5 to 20% higher.

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Hanjin, Hurricanes, Harvests May Boost Truckload Rates

DAT Solutions

I’d advise shippers to not get complacent about transportation costs for the longer term, however. The ocean freight industry suddenly lost one of the top ten players when Hanjin Shipping Co. Missed schedules could keep rates high well into November, when the holiday freight season would ordinarily start to wind down.

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Leveraging Logistics Trends to Make a Difference When it Matters Most

CH Robinson Transportfolio

And that’s why I’m incredibly proud of our team for helping the state of Minnesota save more than $1 million. That’s why we joined our business community on a task force to help our home state of Minnesota ensure they were prepared with necessary personal protective equipment (PPE). But we could not have done this alone.