Category: Best Practices and Benchmarks

Rising fuel prices: A trucker’s guide to high fuel costs

Carriers can tackle fuel prices with tools from DAT. Here’s a list of tools to help you navigate business expenses.

These days, everyone’s feeling the pinch at the pump. For trucking companies, it’s especially painful, since fuel is the largest

Shippers have been evaluating private, dedicated and for-hire fleet strategies more frequently during the last two years of freight market

Of all the variables in transportation, which ones do shippers evaluate most often? The answer is the mode, but not

Transportation costs flew off the guard rails in 2021. Truckload rates climbed as demand spiked amid a resurgent COVID pandemic,

Data silos are a natural occurring phenomenon in business. They exist whenever departments use different systems and have unique reporting

The right TMS can boost both productivity and profits by eliminating labor-intensive tasks and giving you time to focus on

Transportation got a seat at the table in 2021. But with this increased visibility comes heightened expectations. Executives want to

Trucks are in huge demand, with historically tight capacity pushing truckload rates to record highs. But inflationary forces are hitting

As the capacity crunch continues to stress truckload markets, freight brokers are tasked with more and more difficult problems to

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

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