FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 16, 2024

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) There are ample opportunities to take advantage of spot versus contract freight data insights. Consider this; as reported by Louis Columbus of Forbes , “Machine learning algorithms and the apps running them are capable of analyzing large, diverse data sets fast, improving demand forecasting accuracy.”

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Quarterly Freight Data Report: A Q3 Review of the Trucking Economy & How It Will Shape Q4 '23 is a publication using Loadsmart data sets for shippers.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 14, 2024

Much has been made in recent weeks about supply chain data providers changing historical metrics. Well, maybe you should, since it’s the title of the blog…DATA INTEGRITY MATTERS! SONAR isn’t yet the longest-running or most-used data source in the trucking world (but we’re getting there!).

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Killing Ghost Loads and Phantom Data with Michael Darden. Michael Darden and Joe Lynch discuss killing ghost loads and phantom data. Michael is the CEO of DFM Data Corp, a utility company designed to be a tool between digital partners moving freight in the USA and Canada. About DFM Data Corp. DFM Data Corp.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 12, 2022

Data science is bringing innovation to underwriting trucking insurance, says Ian White, chief executive officer of Koffie Labs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is from Descartes Systems Group and looks at how companies can reduce lead times with real-time data. Without this information it’s hard to plan ahead for the inland transport leg and can lead to containers sitting at the port for a day or more while carriers try to allocate trucks, drivers, and schedule appointments for pickup.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Truck job growth might be slowing, but warehouse jobs are declining. This interesting article dissects the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) monthly report. Is that due to increased automation? Or is it due to fewer people wanting the jobs, when … Continue reading →

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Freight and trucking data makes for an excellent resource for shippers and logistic service providers (LSPs) alike. The data obtained from historical and contract load tender information creates a valuable tool – a trucking rate predictor. And it’s important to know why tendered, non-paid data can add so much weight.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

APRIL 11, 2023

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there have been 4,842 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in the past year.

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Fleet Owner

APRIL 26, 2019

Work Truck Solutions (WTS) recently released its 2018 search data for commercial body types. The company said the data represents more than 1 million searches completed last year on its platform, which serves more than 900 dealerships covering 49 st

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 8, 2021

The digital age has presented a wealth of opportunities for the over the road trucking market. The abundant data sources can make the process of assessing the market more difficult than necessary. Shippers and carriers should make more definitive decisions in selecting their data sources.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 16, 2021

Mapping the trucking market assists freight market participants with a flurry of benefits. Companies with access to accurate near-real-time data not only improve their operations; they also gain the ability to depict the current state of the trucking market. These accurate depictions of the market come from the tracking of data.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Trucking capacity is tight, and deadheading is the precursor of even stricter capacity. Fortunately, smart data utilization can help reduce deadheading occurrences and make the entire supply chain more profitable. The problem of deadheading in trucking. Data helps to ensure carriers make crucial accept versus reject decisions.

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Fleet Owner

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New numbers from last month fall below seasonal expectations, according to the research firm, and are a revision of preliminary data earlier this month that showed a 9% sales decline. However, strong end-of-quarter auction results helped for the month.

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DC Velocity

JULY 18, 2018

Online load matching network could use aggregated ELD data to help trucks avoid empty runs, Cargo Chief says.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Shippers often manage transportation for these projects with historical data, bids from trusted carriers and a lot of guesswork. The industry’s most up-to-date supply chain data solution can help companies understand buying behavior and freight costs more accurately than any other source. That’s getting ready to change.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 11, 2021

And the transportation and shipping industry has a choice to make – to take advantage of trucking data or to ignore it, continuing as before. . Access to data and proper analysis are both essential to maximize profits and reduce costs. Real-time trucking data helps to secure more capacity and better shipping rates.

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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Whether you're a trucker looking for opinions on your side of the brokered-freight transparency debate, or a broker looking to understand your service providers, these survey results shine more light on one of trucking's most important topics.

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Food Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2022

How to leverage third-party data to overcome trucking industry-driven food quality and safety challenges.

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Fleet Owner

MAY 2, 2018

Eight state DOTs have created a regional system that will post truck parking availability along highways and share data with telematics apps in real time.

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NGT News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

have begun demonstration testing on public roads in Japan of the Giga Fuel Cell, a fuel cell (FC)-powered heavy-duty truck currently being co-developed by the two companies.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Data and freight analytics platforms play a pivotal role in freight forecasting. Obviously, the ability to improve truck and trailer order forecasting offers excellent value for carriers. Data and analytics platforms assemble and organize data for meaningful, actionable use.

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NGT News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Volvo Trucks North America has debuted a new connected technology tool for its dealers to help fleet customers maximize both fuel efficiency and vehicle productivity.

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Truck News

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Every component short of a piece of metal seems to come equipped with some sort of sensor, gathering data about everything from pressures to temperatures, fault codes to voltage. We live in an era of the increasingly connected vehicle. Forms …

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

Lack of data, lack of conviction and lack of organizational agility all conspire to keep companies from recognizing medium-term opportunities and challenges and responding decisively. It’s hard to find good data that provides a view into the next few months of consumer behavior and economic activity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Jungheinrich is connecting its fleet by equipping all its new trucks with telemetry units as standard. Jungheinrich is continuing to drive forward the digitalisation and networking of intralogistics by equipping all newly ordered trucks produced in its European plants with telemetry units as standard.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 10, 2023

Businesses are prioritizing the speed of data propagation within their supply chains. According to Gold, NRF members have made significant investments in data analysis to improve their ability to predict consumer demand to prevent bloated inventory levels that many large retailers experienced around this time in 2022. and Target Corp.

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Food Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ken Johnson, CEO of Leonard’s Express and one of the winners of Food Logistics’ 2023 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award, explains the importance of transparency along the supply chain and how data helps.

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Trucker Dump

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The post TD179: Diesel Fuel Shortages, Crash Data Before/After ELD Mandate, Double Brokering Explained, & More appeared first on About Truck Driving.

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Logistics Management

APRIL 20, 2021

The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for March—at 106.8 2015=100)—was off 5.1%, following a 2.3% February decline (revised from an initial reading of a 4.5% decline), following a 1.4% (upwardly revised from an original reading of 1.4%), from December to January, which came in at 115.2.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The benefits of autonomous trucks for trucking companies are clear.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

On this episode of #WithSONAR, current SONAR subscriber Greg Morrow, the Director of Operations for ARL Logistics , discusses the importance of using data to grow and strengthen carrier and customer relationships with co-hosts Kyle Taylor and Luke Falasca. SONAR provides that data. ARL shows them “the why behind the what.”

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NGT News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IVECO and Plus say they are beginning public-road testing of their jointly developed next-generation automated trucks in Germany. As a part of the testing, the companies will collect road data to validate their autonomous truck’s operations and start designing the potential factory production model.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Truck fleet management has always been intensely focused on knowledge of the freight market. A clear vision for how the market and the fleet can work in unison is at the heart of fleet management within the trucking industry. Streamline data capture and analysis. Supply chains exist as data-driven entities.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

MARCH 17, 2023

The California Department of Motor Vehicles reported a significant jump in autonomous vehicle testing sans Class 3-8 trucks and vans, which has industry experts questioning the overall value of their data.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 10, 2022

Getting more out of lift truck telematics involves looking beyond basics and starting to incorporate analytics fed by integration with other systems. By marrying up telematics data from the trucks with operations data, or with real-time location feeds, users stand to benefit.

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