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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

– David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Now we're creating loads that don't take as much time to break down. They may tell us they can take the load if we allow a certain trailer type, or if we can change the date or the time of the pick up.

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How the best shippers manage capacity challenges

DAT Solutions

– David Domencic, Senior Manager of Transportation Procurement, Armada Supply Chain Solutions. Now we're creating loads that don't take as much time to break down. They may tell us they can take the load if we allow a certain trailer type, or if we can change the date or the time of the pick up.

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3 Reasons Parade is Perfect for Open Deck Freight

Parade

Despite the prevalence of open deck brokerages, not all software solutions are designed with them in mind. We get questions all the time about whether Parade will work for brokerages that work mainly with open deck or flatbed freight. Options for carriers who can take a load are limited to those with the equipment needed.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Determine your spend amount, spend pattern and carriers you use; is it seasonal, uniformly spread over the year; which lanes – origin and destination, truck capacity, type of equipment required – flatbed, vans, less than truckload (LTL), containers, or special equipment. Load boards e.g. DAT Truckstop. Rate considerations.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Determine your spend amount, spend pattern and carriers you use; is it seasonal, uniformly spread over the year; which lanes – origin and destination, truck capacity, type of equipment required – flatbed, vans, less than truckload (LTL), containers, or special equipment. Load boards e.g. DAT Truckstop. Rate considerations.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1/21-1/25

Freight Plus

The news comes as the van load-to-truck ratio hits an 8-month low. Van, flatbed, and reefer rates are down 4, 4, and 5 cents respectively. According to the DAT load boards, truck counts are up 7% while loads slipped by 10%. Trucking capacity climbs as rates decline to start 2019. Where's my freight? ".

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Top 10 Markets for Load Posts in 2017

DAT Solutions

Each year we look at the top 10 markets for load posts on DAT load boards , for each equipment type, to get a bird’s-eye view of how the markets shift from one year to the next. Million-Load Markets: 14 in 2017, Up From 1 in 2016. In 2016, Atlanta was the only market with more than 1 million van load posts.