Supply Chain Dive: Navigating the evolving freight market: The power of accurate data and analytics
Success in the ever-changing truckload market depends on having accurate, relevant, and timely rate data and analytics to help guide actions – so how do you find the right partner to procure that data?
Food Logistics: State of Transportation: In the Driver’s Seat and Bracing for Impact
Sometimes even the most cutting-edge technology can’t predict what’s going to happen next in the transportation industry. That’s why trucking and transportation sectors are bracing for impact and in the driver’s seat for what’s ahead.
Overdrive: Direct freight: Delivering a modicum of consistency in a turbulent market
Owner-operators in trucking generally have two options when it comes to sourcing freight -- brokers on the spot market or directly from the source, the shipper.
Overdrive: How truckers can leverage existing relationships toward direct freight
Utica, Nebraska-based Borchers Brothers Trucking has been in the trucking business since 2013, but mostly as a side operation to brothers Justin and Brandon’s Borchers Ag farm business.
Reuters: Some Yellow freight customers face post-bankruptcy sticker shock -analysts
Aug 11 (Reuters) - Former customers of bankrupt trucking firm Yellow (YELL.O) can expect to see rates rise at least 10%-20% from the rock-bottom levels that helped usher in the demise of that nearly 100-year-old firm, industry analysts and executives said on Friday.
Freight 360: Freight Fraud (with Jeff Hopper from DAT) – Episode 204
Fraud is no joke, and it's gotten worse and worse in the last year. We’ve got Jeff Hopper from DAT on this episode where we dive into fraud and how to protect yourself from it in today’s era of freight brokering.
The Economist: America’s logistics boom has turned to bust
On august 6th Yellow, one of America’s biggest trucking firms, declared bankruptcy and announced it would wind down operations after 99 years in business.
WFLA News Channel 8: Yellow Freight files for bankruptcy, fueling fears of higher consumer prices
The sudden bankruptcy of Yellow, the century-old freight company, is leaving industry experts to speculate about the effect of the shutdown on the larger economy.