The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Curtis has spent 16 years in the LTL industry – 8 of those with Old Dominion Freight Line, and the last 8 with Reconex, FreightPlus, and Understand LTL – which he recently launched as an LTL focused education firm. Curtis documents and shares challenges, progress, and goals in a collaborative and community driven way.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days. Speaking of JOC… be sure to catch Substack columns from Eric Johnson , Ari Ashe , and Bill Cassidy - all three are fantastic!

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

He is the founder of Bargain Hunt and Treverse LLC, a wholesale, liquidation & auction business based in Nashville, TN. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. Previously he was with Geodis, Kanga, and Lovesac.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

According to the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the estimated cost of a nationwide freight railroad shutdown is more than $2 billion a day. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 8, 2022

Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days. Speaking of JOC… be sure to catch Substack columns from Eric Johnson , Ari Ashe , and Bill Cassidy - all three are fantastic!

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Freightera

MAY 31, 2021

LTL Freight Rates: From Los Angeles, California, to Major Cities in the USA. Check out some examples of our freight rates: All the freight rates below are for 1 pallet, 48” by 48” by 48”, 500 lbs, class 100 : From Los Angeles, CA to New York, NY. From Los Angeles, CA to Nashville, TN. Best rate: $318.63

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Freightera

AUGUST 2, 2022

From Windsor ON to Nashville TN: $2362 USD. Quote and book your freight in a few clicks on Freightera.com. The post Full Truckload Cross-Border Freight Shipping Rates appeared first on Freightera Blog. Take a look at our rate examples for full truckload cross-border shipments from the USA to Canada and vice versa.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days. Speaking of JOC… be sure to catch Substack columns from Eric Johnson , Ari Ashe , and Bill Cassidy - all three are fantastic!

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days. Speaking of JOC… be sure to catch Substack columns from Eric Johnson , Ari Ashe , and Bill Cassidy - all three are fantastic!

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 8, 2016

MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. Best Buy rolls out same-day delivery in 13 markets (Star Tribune). Descartes Showcases Logistics Technology Platform Innovations at Global User and Partner Conference. Manhattan Associates Empowers Warehouse Managers With New E-Commerce Capabilities.

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Looking for a freight company with great customer service and amazing freight rates? Sign up for free on Freightera to get freight quotes in seconds , and ship your pallets easily and stress-free. Nashville, TN to Washington, DC. New Cross-Border LTL Freight Rate. Look no further! We got you covered.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) 2023 conference in Nashville, industry leaders shared their solutions to the supply chain turmoil in recent years. Panelist Hannah Testani, Intelligent Audit CEO and freight-auditing technology expert, noted that COVID brought 2030 volumes to 2020.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 29, 2015

July is the in-between season for refrigerated ("reefer") freight. Freight volume continued to cool off for reefers last week, but some pockets of high demand remain in New Mexico, Arkansas and the Lower Midwest, as shown in this Hot States Map for the week of July 19-25, 2015, below. Those Lower Midwest markets are harvesting melons.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 7, 2017

The number of loads available on the spot market last month was also up more than 100% compared to February 2016, which is a pretty good sign that the freight recession really is over. Since the freight coming out didn’t pay very well, inbound lanes paid more. The freight market in L.A. The rest stayed put.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 15, 2016

Freight markets are heating up in the Sun Belt. Flatbeds saw rising freight volume and rates in the Southwest and a handful of Southeastern markets. Flatbed freight is strongest in the Southeast region, but not in the usual locations. Flatbeds Rates Rise in the South. The national flatbed rate averaged $1.83

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

After years of financial struggles, reports of Yellow preparing for bankruptcy emerged last week as the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucker saw customers leave in large numbers. has shut down operations and is headed for bankruptcy filing, according to the Teamsters Union and multiple media reports.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 5, 2017

Flatbed freight volume and rates gained some traction in June, after a couple of slow months. Texas had the biggest rebound last week, partly due to a surge of loads leaving Houston, the biggest flatbed freight market in the country by far. Atlanta to Nashville jumped up to $3.04 including the fuel surcharge.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 3, 2017

The collapse of a section of a bridge section on I-85 just north of Atlanta was shocking for two reasons: No injuries were reported, and its impact on spot market truckload freight has been and probably will be muted. 3) Likewise, shipments west to Birmingham and northwest to Nashville won't be much impacted.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Robinson as we work together to provide safe and reliable services to those who care about their freight and the care of which is it handled.”. What the award means to Dayton Freight. Dayton Freight. What the award means to Old Dominion Freight Lines. Old Dominion Freight Lines. Dayton Freight Lines, Inc.,

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Freight Plus

APRIL 6, 2021

Now we are dealing with other severe weather issues in the Southeast, flooding in Nashville, and severe weather patterns heading down to Louisiana. While things normalize for the most part in March that normalization is not necessarily a good thing. Volumes remain super elevated; capacity remains super tight.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. One of my favorites is Lexington to Nashville, TN, and back. Below are four strategies I use to get more home time.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Rates rose across the region, with shippers moving freight out of the way of the coming storm. Atlanta to Nashville also crossed the $3 mark, at $3.03 Spot market capacity had already tightened in the weeks between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Rising diesel costs added extra pressure and pushed prices higher. FALLING LANES. per mile.

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TMC

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Still, some freight managers understandably find it difficult to accept that paying for an automated version of such a routine operation saves money and improves customer service. The baseline cost for the Nashville order is only $79. So complicated, in fact, that doing the calculations manually often results in costly errors.

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Tailwind

JUNE 20, 2016

I think about them today as I am busy working at our trucking software and freight brokerage software company. Shea Weber, of the Nashville Predators, perhaps one of the top 5 defense-men in the game, makes that amount every half day of the year with his $14,000,000+ contract. What do we learn from the passing of Gordie Howe?

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Tailwind

JUNE 20, 2016

I think about them today as I am busy working at our trucking software and freight brokerage software company. Shea Weber, of the Nashville Predators, perhaps one of the top 5 defense-men in the game, makes that amount every half day of the year with his $14,000,000+ contract. What do we learn from the passing of Gordie Howe?

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