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Quarter-End Freight Surges Impact Transportation Rates

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Do month-end or quarter-end freight surges affect your transportation costs? Those familiar with transportation know that month-end or quarter-end freight surges commonly occur, and that your routing guide may not work as well as it usually does during those times. Using data provided by C.H. Consider lane volume predictability.

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7 Ways to Reduce Carrier Detention Fees and How Digital Yard Management Can Help

PINC

Robinson and Iowa State University, favored shippers are receiving better pricing and service. All carriers mentioned liability concerns related to either the freight or the drivers who are on shipper/consignee property, according to the report. Freight may be ready early for pickup. Pre-stage freight on shipping dock.

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Top Findings: What Makes a Favored Shipper?

Talking Logistics

What makes carriers prefer to move one shipper’s freight over another’s? According to anecdotal evidence, carriers look at shipper behaviors before deciding which company’s freight they will haul; favored shippers are also rumored to receive better rates. Researchers at Iowa State University analyzed data provided by C.H.

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How to Use Freight Attributes to Your Greatest Shipping Advantage

CH Robinson Transportfolio

How to Use Freight Attributes to Your Greatest Shipping Advantage | C.H. In a previous post, I discussed aligning with service providers to best serve your freight attributes. Today, we’ll dig into how to and why you should accurately represent your freight. Use freight attributes to get the service you want.

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Drivers in the Spotlight: 4 Reasons for Their Growing Influence on Supply Chain Management

TMC

Companies continuously strive to optimize their freight operations by, for example, improving supply chain visibility, choosing simple or multi-stop delivery configurations, instituting pooling arrangements, and developing complementary crossdock facilities. Carriers can bestow this status on shippers they prefer to do business with.

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Transportation Network Planning: Public and Private Common Ground

Supply Chain View from the Field

The most interesting thing was observing the types of problems that people in Metropolitan Planning Organizations, as well as State planning organizations are addressing, and the types of data being employed in these very elegant planning models. A very interesting presentation was made by the Jennifer Murray on freight planning in Wisconsin.

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Quarter-End Shipping Surges Impact Transportation Rates

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Those familiar with transportation know that month-end or quarter-end freight surges commonly occur, maybe in your company, or maybe in other organizations, and that your routing guide may not work as well as it usually does at those times. Using data provided by C. Robinson and TMC , the managed services division of C.H.