FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

There are many aspects of day-to-day shipping processes that any freight broker must monitor. According to TruckingInfo.com , “Some envision technology in the freight market doing what Uber and Lyft have done in the ride-sharing market or Airbnb in the vacation market. Transportation costs are among the most critical of these.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 23, 2021

However, increasing freight management efficiency can come in several different forms and can present a difficult challenge. Avoid destinations with a lower likelihood of an empty backhaul One significant aspect of freight management to consider is the risk of empty backhauls. Download the White Paper.

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Trimble

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Earlier this month, we took our new Engage Lane solution on the road to FreightWaves’ 2022 Future of Freight Festival (F3) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We’re proud to announce that the F3 audience voted our demo “ Best in Show ” as one of the most innovative, exciting and powerful products on the market!

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 30, 2021

Establishing a practical freight routing guide helps outline essential rules of engagement for vendors, clients and supply chain managers. How those data-driven strategies and game plans are implemented makes all the difference in the world. Request a FreightWaves SONAR or a SONAR SCI demo by clicking the button below to get started.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Co-hosts Kyle Taylor and Luke Falasca focused on freight forecasting during COVID-19 on this episode of #WithSONAR. Subscribers receive near-time market intelligence to improve pre-RFP strategy analysis and can identify new market opportunities with little to none native, historical data. Get a Demo of SONAR's Lane Scorecard.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Optimizing truckload freight spend is essential in today’s freight market. Track truckload freight accessorial costs As reported by Inbound Logistics , “Carriers price accessorials, such as liftgate or non-commercial delivery, at a premium. Choose the right carrier based on landed freight spend. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

Once weather like the snowstorm in Colorado or the one seared into Texans’ Valentine’s Day memory hits, it’s easy to predict what is going to happen next—the freight market in the area halted to a stand-still and strangled capacity , as also reported by The Dallas Morning News. Capacity signals for the freight market.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Budgeting and managing freight costs are critical to overcoming any disruptions and increasing profitability.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

Big data and predictive freight rates in the digital supply chain are nothing new. Regardless of segment, the need for technology and insight via real-time predictive freight rates that can explore the specifics are critical to success. Even worse, predictive freight rates using outdated data may do more harm than good. .

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) Successful freight trucking depends on the joining of profitable loads with timely delivery. Of course, measuring revenue through the growing demands for both contract and spot freight transportation is never simple addition and subtraction. Broken down to reefer, dry van and flatbed.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many asset-based carriers utilize freight broker and data technology to recruit truck drivers and reel in new talent. It is considerably more important to find talent quickly to fill the ever-growing needs of the freight and shipping industry. In turn, that slows down contract freight and reduces how much contracted truckers earn.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Figuring out the best strategy for managing fleet assets can be difficult at best. Unlike contracted rates, the spot freight market is full of wild price swings and uncertainty. And in freight management, a delay of a day or even hours can amount to significant delays and a poor customer experience. Consider this.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 6, 2021

On the episode you’ll hear: How does Ed define the industry question: “what is digital freight matching?”. Is newtrul a digital freight matching platform? Load boards have been around for years, what’s the difference between what newtrul is, or any other digital freight matching platform, and a load board?

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 8, 2021

Analytics-driven processes are the go-to strategies for all freight management parties that seek to increase profitability. But there can be problems in carrier freight KPIs creation and use. Here are 18 top carrier benchmarking KPIs that trucking freight carriers should start tracking today. Workforce freight KPIs.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 16, 2021

Mapping the trucking market assists freight market participants with a flurry of benefits. True trucking market mapping means looking to all the granularities and national factors affecting freight. This includes national factors that could affect freight, such as increased global trade, the demands of e-commerce and more.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 12, 2021

Monitoring freight market activity is an integral part of supply chains. Industry-wide and granular freight market data capture capabilities When capturing data from the freight market, carriers need to collect it from every available market and use this information to make improvements for their companies.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Supply chain professionals need to realize that real-time freight and shipping data is crucial to making market decisions and maximizing profitability across all loads for these five reasons. Real-time freight data enables immediate intervention for major disruptions. Yes, it does allow companies to reduce the time to execute a load.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Global supply chains suffer from limited visibility and a general want for supply chain intelligence in carrier sourcing , freight tendering and all other processes. Without supply chain visibility, a retailer cannot realistically move freight to other markets to take advantage of trucking capacity. It’s that simple.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 15, 2024

More Resources Home October 15, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices fell 1% to $3.80/kg. Europe – N.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

Much of the debate over freight analytics rests on how well predictive analytics aligned with what was observed in the market. But that concept often falls by the wayside in supply chain analytics, especially when assessing the accuracy of predictions using freight data or a forecasting engine. USA and FWSR28.USA

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Control over trucking freight rating remains a blip for many carriers, particularly owner-operators and those trying to manage the chaos of a pandemic-stressed industry. Quite simply, freight rating challenges are not a problem limited to trucking carriers. Now, the industry is changing yet again.

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Locus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Health-related absenteeism has resulted in reduced output, while transportation delays are echoing the freight challenges seen during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the lessons learned from COVID-19, many businesses are yet to fully adopt strategies that would cushion them against such shocks. Challenges for Businesses 1.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A certain level of fees and freight rating expenses are standard in shipping and transportation. However, the sheer amount of fees applied in the process to price freight for a load can amount to quite a hefty sum. . ” This means knowing how a carrier or shipper approaches freight pricing. .”

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 26, 2021

Supply chain leaders continue to focus their efforts on finding the right mix of assets used, market positioning and carrier freight pricing strategies. However, this is about a different type of freight load balancing-the balancing of assets. Defining freight load balancing. For carriers, it’s all about balance.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

The introduction of this first application within SONAR SCI was built with leaders at companies that spend millions of dollars on freight shipping. SONAR Lane Acuity Plus provides lane-level insight into market stability and rate benchmarking , helping participants identify freight rate and capacity risk on a lane. .

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Dedola Global Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

In the current economic climate, characterized by volatile freight rates and limited capacity and equipment, importers face unprecedented challenges. Expedited ocean freight services have emerged as a viable option, offering significant benefits in these turbulent times.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Shipping analytics tools shine a light on the value of informed freight management. Freight market participants need these top shipping analytics tools in their freight stack. Shipping status tools to track freight. That extends to guiding freight bids too. Ocean freight impacts on trucking is another use case.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Today, freight load management is a major trouble area for carriers and logistics managers within the shipping industry. For managers in the transportation industry, freight load pricing accuracy remains a source of confusion and disruption. Within the freight load management area of the network, data is essential.

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FreightWaves SONAR

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The freight market continues to battle the freight recession that has been ongoing for over two years, and there have been signs that the market is slightly more sensitive to outside events. With tools like SONAR, tracking across all the various modes, it becomes easy to identify when others in the industry are changing strategies.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2015

Freight rating software is a necessity for shippers and 3PLs. There is more at stake in the choice of a freight rating system. When shopping for a Freight Rating Software System with TMS, look for key points that will add value and provide additional benefits for shippers. The Basic Functionality of a Freight Rating System.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

More Resources Home November 15, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices decreased 3% to $5.56/kg

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 5, 2021

Managers don’t want to learn that they are essentially paying a higher transportation rate with one carrier when another freight carrier offers a much more competitive truckload rate. Enterprise shippers naturally want to secure the most cost-effective capacity for their freight loads. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 24, 2021

One of the best strategies of risk management is diversification of assets or revenue drivers. Brokerage leaders are turning to this strategy for their freight business. Many small and medium-sized brokerages find themselves entering the freight brokerage market with a specialized niche.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 30, 2021

On the episode you’ll hear: Why should freight market participants like shippers, brokers, and carriers 1, care about collaboration in the supply chain and 2. Are analytics and the mainstream use of them in the supply chain, but especially freight, a must-have and why? Request a SONAR Demo. Watch the episode.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

When you want to drive down your logistics and transportation spend, the very first thing that you need is freight and transportation data. Accurate freight and transportation data is particularly important. With freight costs rising, the task of teasing out hidden costs is becoming increasingly critical. Invest in Technology.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 17, 2021

How effective are you at lane-by-lane planning and getting deep insights to aid in freight spend planning, mini-bids, and other long-term contracts in your organization? That’s where SONAR SCI Lane Acuity can add the most value and prepare enterprise shippers for true, future-ready bidding strategies. Request a SONAR Demo.

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IFS Blogs

APRIL 24, 2025

Freight brokers, 3PLs, and forwarders are all competing for the same shippersoffering similar rates, routes, and promises. This not only wastes time but costs your business opportunitiesespecially when your competitors are using smarter tools and strategies. Want to go deeper into freight pipelines? Speed builds trust.

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