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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. Headquartered in Saukville, WI, Charter manufactures steel coil, which is transported to customers’ factories on flatbeds or in vans.

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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

What can shippers do to make their freight attractive to carriers? Three shippers answered that question during a panel discussion at the 2018 DAT User Conference in Portland, OR. Headquartered in Saukville, WI, Charter manufactures steel coil, which is transported to customers’ factories on flatbeds or in vans.

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A Complete Breakdown of the 26th State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

Manufacturers and logistics providers have the ability to build more warehouses to meet the growing demand for additional storage space. Unfortunately, others have seen container traffic come to a dead halt, as was the case in Portland, Oregon. percent; although, air freight demand held a $968 billion high volume of items.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. UPS’ eBike electric bike program, activated in Portland, Ore., Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more.

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How Did Truckers Find Loads 40 Years Ago?

DAT Solutions

His job involves negotiating contracts, pricing, and finding loads for Ashley's empty trucks after they deliver furniture from the manufacturing plants to distribution centers throughout North America. At the top of each row was the name of the city where they would commonly deliver freight. If it was a reefer they'd use a red card.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Leveraging the best manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, maximising productive efficiency, and accessing management expertise early , are the strategies that will set the best apart. Unleashed lets you add these additional costs (such as freight and duty) for each purchase order during the receipting process.

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Have Spot Market Rates Bottomed Out?

DAT Solutions

Yet the freight surges that many of us have been accustomed to seeing at this time have been noticeably absent. For multiple reasons, spot market freight volumes and rates have been trending down for most of 2015 -- van rates since March, and flatbed and reefer rates since June. PMI Sectors Produce More Freight Than NMI Counterparts.