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Yahoo: DAT’s New Risk Assessment Engine Enables Unprecedented Industry Trust and Transparency

DAT Freight & Analytics today introduced an innovative new risk assessment engine that uses artificial intelligence and DAT’s extensive proprietary data to give customers an unprecedented level of insight into a potential partner’s risk profile and performance.

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Overdrive: DAT partnership with Verosint to automate identity verification, detect and prevent fraud

DAT Freight & Analytics introduced what it called an "AI-powered identity-fraud detection and prevention platform" through a partnership with the Verosint company.

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Land Line Now: Spot market ends third quarter

The Federal Highway Administration is taking nominations for a new advisory board that could help the agency toward an entirely new system for funding highways.

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WSJ Logistics Report: Strike’s Pain Delayed; Driving Auto Exports; Collaborating With Robots

The three-week-old strike by the United Auto Workers is causing a lot of noise but so far hasn’t brought much financial pain to either side.

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Heavy Duty Trucking: Class 8 Orders Nearly Double as 2024 Build Slots Fully Open

Both ACT Research and FTR are reporting significant increases in September Class 8 truck orders over August as the 2024 order boards open.

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Tank Transport: Unsettling Yellow Corp Shutdown Impact: A 10% Rise in LTL Trucking Costs Looming?

The Yellow Corp shutdown impact has left a significant void in the less-than-truckload (LTL) sector, leading to anticipated cost hikes, as per industry experts. Recent reports confirm that Yellow, a trucking giant with a history spanning 99 years, has ceased operations, leaving 30,000 employees jobless.

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Triple T Transport: Navigating The Changing Landscape Of Transportation RFPs

Chris Caplice, PhD. Is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT and Chief Scientist at DAT Solutions. As a leading mind in the field of freight analytics, Dr. Caplice has worked extensively in the field of transportation procurement. When it comes to requests for proposals (RFPs) a once straightforward part of the procurement process is becoming increasingly complicated.

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Overdrive: Uber Freight says AI will crack down on freight fraud, detention times

Uber Freight on Friday announced on Thursday a host of upgrades to the freight platform that, among other things, should help to stamp out freight fraud and annoying detention times at shippers, according to CEO Lior Ron.

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ISM World: Ride the Pricing Wave, Without Getting Swamped

The old 80/20 rule — the Pareto Principle — is alive and well in trucking, although the scale is even more out of balance in full truckload freight. Studies at DAT Freight & Analytics show that about 80 percent of a shipper’s truckload volume moves on just 15 percent of its lanes.

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ITS Logistics: DAT iQ Live: Freight market analysis with Peter Weis

“What is the market saying about data trends and the role that data plays on the journey to more autonomous supply chains?” asks Dean Croke, Principal Analyst.

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