Matt Sullivan, Author at DAT Freight & Analytics - Blog

Supply chain upheavals made transportation spend management extremely difficult in 2021. Those conditions are likely to stabilize at some point

Capacity shortages, supply chain disruptions and dramatic shifts in consumer buying habits produced a volatile transportation market in 2021. The

Traditional methods for procuring freight transportation no longer work in today’s increasingly complex marketplace. This is especially true for “set

Data science may feel like a new frontier for truckload transportation, but concepts like “big data” have always been a

Shippers typically run annual RFPs to collect robust contract rates that they can use throughout the year within their routing

You may have noticed a small change recently in the load board products from DAT Freight & Analytics. When searching

Surging truckload demand continues to outpace capacity, while businesses also continue to grapple with broken supply chains, according to the

While annual bid events are still one of the primary ways companies go about procuring transportation, many are turning to

When capacity is tight, brokers need to make sure their freight is attractive to prospective carriers. One way is to

Transportation costs are not like other business expenses. They’re affected by many different factors, and not always in the same

The country is slowly emerging from the pandemic, with the U.S. averaging 2.5 million vaccine doses a day. That hasn’t

Expanding your product line or adding new customers are classic ways to grow your business. But that growth also creates