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Announcing Stord’s $2.4M Seed Round of Funding

Stord

said Chad Byers, co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. “As As we’ve seen through our early investment in Flexport, a global technology-powered freight forwarder, there is tremendous value in building a software layer that sits above underlying operators and asset owners.

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Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Driving Successful Digital Supply Chain Transformation

TMC

While those may be effective tools, they cannot scale with the pace from a sudden spike in demand, especially for products that are new to the marketplace or have seasonal demand. This will be your guide as you examine the wide variety of tools and technology that supports a digital transformation. It’s more than software.

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Need Truckload Capacity? These 5 DAT Tools Can Help

DAT Solutions

This is supposed to be the slow time of year, but as many freight brokers know, trucks are harder to find than they were last year at this time. Fortunately, DAT customers have access to a number of tools that can help find capacity. Just take a look at the year-over-year load-to-truck ratios in this graphic from DAT Trendlines.

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5 steps to get 'pre-booked' for loads

DAT Solutions

During the busy seasons, the critical freight that pays the best rate almost always goes to a carrier that the broker has worked with before and knows is reliable. Find business partners on the largest digital freight marketplace. Use the TriHaul routing tool in DAT TruckersEdge Pro. I mostly use this when I want to get home.

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4 lessons the Marine Corps taught me about owning a business

DAT Solutions

Build your business with access to the largest digital freight marketplace. DAT load boards connect carriers and freight brokers, with more than 279 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $57 billion in real transactions. Uniform of the day.

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4 ways truckers can get more time at home

DAT Solutions

When I first got started working with freight brokers in 2011, I was averaging more than 200 nights away from home each year. Post your truck to the industry's largest digital freight market exchange. Chad Boblett is the owner and driver at Boblett Brothers Trucking of Lexington, KY. Build relationships.

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

Digital intelligence gives them a fresh set of tools for doing more with less. 1] Chad Prevost, “ McKinsey: smart cities are about people ,” Freight Waves, 7 August 2018. [2] The point is to respond more effectively and dynamically to the needs and desires of residents.”[1] Footnotes. [1]